Hello all,
Essentially my wife and I built out a Promaster for the Pan-American Highway after doing the Calgary to Alaska portion in a second Gen Tacoma with RTT.
This van has been absolutely incredible to us over the past 1.5 years, and it truly sucks to have our Pan-Am dream killed by Covid.
However, life moves on and we are entering a new chapter in our life and must adjust.
We've taken this thing on multiple 10,000km trips (bought at 110,000km) and even woke up at Lake Louise when it was -30C out, but didn't know the temp dropped that hard until we opened the door.
It's comfortable to just relax in, but also has big sturdy tires that have taken us down many forestry service roads to back lakes.
We are located in Calgary, Alberta but willing to provide delivery within reason.
The good:
Here's the build thread:
www.promasterforum.com
I will add recent pictures as well.
Essentially my wife and I built out a Promaster for the Pan-American Highway after doing the Calgary to Alaska portion in a second Gen Tacoma with RTT.
This van has been absolutely incredible to us over the past 1.5 years, and it truly sucks to have our Pan-Am dream killed by Covid.
However, life moves on and we are entering a new chapter in our life and must adjust.
We've taken this thing on multiple 10,000km trips (bought at 110,000km) and even woke up at Lake Louise when it was -30C out, but didn't know the temp dropped that hard until we opened the door.
It's comfortable to just relax in, but also has big sturdy tires that have taken us down many forestry service roads to back lakes.
We are located in Calgary, Alberta but willing to provide delivery within reason.
The good:
- Chassis is great, no rust
- High roof, I'm 6' 3" and can stand comfortably
- ~145km
- Brand new brakes (rotors and pads in 4 corners)
- Toyo WLT tires put on last year
- Interior is fully XPS insulated 0.5-2" depending on location
- Propex propane heater with thermostat (able to keep it +20C inside when it is -20C outside)
- Dometic CFX75 fridge (dual zone, can be fridge freezer)
- Full Queen RV mattress (Spring Air Rapture) not a foamie
- Dometic 2 burner stove plumbed off the propane
- 8x LED dimmable potlights
- 120V plugins in the kitchen and drivers seat (2000W inverter)
- Massive batteries (2x Trojan L16, $1400 CAD) for over a week off grid
- Massive solar (550W - 2x275W commercial panels)
- 88L of fresh water
- Full sink and
- Hardwood counters
- Vinyl plank floor
- Composite walls
- Passenger seat swivels for a secondary seating spot in the kitchen
- Pull out table rated for 200lb for dinner.
- Large garage area
- The body was previously used like a white cargo van, so there are dents and scrapes (we've had the chips painted over)
- It corners and brakes slowly as any 9000lb vehicle does
- Garage area doesn't accommodate mountain bikes standing up as we were planning on using an external bike rack, and voted for more headroom when sitting on the bed.
- $42k USD - $53k CAD
Here's the build thread:
Mounted For Adventure's Build Thread - Patagonia Or...
www.promasterforum.com
I will add recent pictures as well.
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