Lets see your camping vehicles!

[Cody Ray]

Suppose I should post my truck since about all it does is take me to school and haul camp gear.

Currently running 235/75R15" Yokohama Geolander A/T tires. For $110 each they are good tires but they like to dig from a standstill (not pictured in photo).


Here is my "trailer"

[bftank]

figured i would add to this. i think it is a great section albeit underused.

1994 explorer cooper stt's, tube bumpers. these were taken on various trips in northwest, co.

[Will]

Originally Posted by itlives

My bug-out camper is 1,000 lbs...and my Vdub is a 1-ton truck.

People don't realize that in Europe, you carry the same shit with smaller trucks. I had a '68 VW van and we'd fill the thing from floor to ceiling with cases of soda and it never even really noticed. I had a hitch made for it which attached to a pipe bumper and also up the sides of the engine compartment. I pulled a 3-axle trailer with a '74 Thunderbird on it one time, and lots of other vehicles on a dolly. I think of those things more as farm tractors with bodies than as vehicles. I blew the engine a lot, but it's so easy to pull it from a van and back then it cost about $20 to overhaul it. It's ridiculous that an engine you can pull by hand and toss up on a workbench by yourself can power such a useful vehicle. I actually still have my old John Muir Idiot's book right here.

[itlives]

I've posted this in a couple of other threads. I'm sitting here in bed feeling like crap from allergies wasting time. I'll be better for next weeks outing though!
I'm putting a 2.3L out of a Mustang in it - soon. The machine shop should be done on Tuesday. Still have to fab some things - motor mounts and a "deck lid' in the bed to make it easy to change the oil and adjust the carb. I'm using an Esslinger adapter and running the rad under the body between the frame rails. The camper only weighs 1,000 lb's. It's a 1977 13' Trillium (fiberglass). Sink, stove, heater, AC., porta potti and solar power. Still got to get the entertainment (stereo and (yes) TV -all 12V. installed.

[85_Ranger4x4]

Arn't the pickup VW's pretty rare to go swapping motors like that though?

Even a bus is around here that is that clean at any rate...

[--weezl--]

^^ yeah, busses in that shape up here are worth 5 figures for sure! never mind the pickups...



you're all going to love this!

this is what i sleep in when i go camping... most of the time now, camping is in the bush, somewhere down a 4x4 trail, with the local 4x4 club

[Grey_04]

Originally Posted by --weezl--

what did you use for the bows the tarp rest on???????

[--weezl--]

pvc conduit cut to size

a nice canvas tarp, with sewen eyelets (no metal) would be best for this, as it would be quiet, and wouldn't scratch the paint, but i don't know of anyone who works with canvas... though i'm sure if i talked to my dad, he could probably whip something up for me...

just sent my dad an email, hopefully he will get back to me, he loves working on stuff like this so i don't really see it being an issue...



just curious, depending on price, is this something that anyone else on the forum might be interested in?

[Grey_04]

Tks weezl, may have to experiment a little and come up with something similar,

[itlives]

Damn! It must've been the drugs! I just went through the thread again and realized I posted my truck in here twice. - so sorry.

Anyway, for whoever asked about it being rare, they are hard to come by, but this one was on it's last leg. It was hit hard on the drivers side and the door still doesn't close right. I'm the only one that would put work into something like it.

Weezl- I camped like that a couple of trips ago. NEVER AGAIN (with plastic)! You're right about needing a canvas top.

[--weezl--]

i'm a pretty heavy sleeper, so once i'm asleep, i don't typically wake back up again, but a canvas tarp would be MUCH better quality

[RollinWOT]

Weezl, yes I would be interested in something like that. Does the pvc conduit flex much under gusts of wind, or is it pretty sturdy? I was thinking maybe adding a roof beam connecting the 2 hoops across the top to keep the hoops from flexing, but I have never tried a setup like this before.