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Is that a Buick eccentricity? In other vehicles (like my bulletproof VW 8v), we can get away with lower octane stuff with no noticeable problems. Don't remember where I heard it, some vehicles really prefer premium...

Not to discourage you from do-it-yourself flippac ideas if you really want to go that route - there were 4Wheel and Hallmark brand campers purpose built for Blazers. Might save you a bunch of measuring, cutting, fabricating, etc. Here's a current cheapo in a Denver Craigslist with a parts truck...

Quick Google search of 3 wheel drive turned up the Moto Guzzi 3x3, so such vehicles could be 'expo'd". But that would be really weird.

No doubt the internet is the world's greatest networking device. Many thanks to fowldarr's efforts in contacting the seller and getting photos: This serial #158 is in a Pocatello junkyard, for sale for perhaps a $1,000 +/- depending on the mood of the seller, missing various parts large &...

An 'ordinary' shell with a pop up roof, never saw one of those before. Photos worth saving here permanently for posterity...

Time for a GMC Jimmy Casa Grande - in the Portland OR Craigslist, $5,999. It's serial #1361, built 12/76

PM sent. A newer member in our Yahoo Chalet owners' & enthusiasts' forum in N CA is looking for one. Speaking of which, further away in Ohio is this one, Park Layne Craigslist. Indeterminate price, the seller may end up keeping it. Said it is serial #901, built 9/76

This ought to work a tad better than the The Snow Cruiser of the 1930s, a rig that was too big for its britches... er, tires. It drove a short distance and got permanently stuck, 'til it fell through the ice sheet to the bottom of the ocean a couple of decades later.

Tucson Craigslist ad for $4,000. It's serial #762, built 8/76. Never had a chance to go down there and see it in person...

The Bishop CA one mentioned in posts 18, 19 & 21 can now be seen at this page, part of the whole estate sale. A few other SUVs are there if you surf around the site. The seller told me today that he swapped the wheels back to the originals since the spoked ones on the front were rubbing on the...

Same thing, a current eBay auction, but mislabeled as a Chinook.

From the blazerchalet.com web site, on the right is a GMC Jimmy Casa Grande with camo paint, on the right is a genuine CUCV with an orphaned Chalet shell #271 - never was able to catch up with the owners to get more details on both. Then there was the guy at steelsoldiers.com who put one...

SF Bay (Sebastopol) CA ad, $4,900. Seller told me it's #407, built 7/76

They originate from this site? The yellow extended-end version is there. Click the "Rear-End Extensions" link on the right side of the page. I've favored the pop top 'standard' version ever since I saw the orange here in a couple of different threads, but didn't have the patience to do more...

No problem. Cures the overhang problem, wipes out the crew cab advantage. Playing devil's advocate now, would we be re-inventing the idea of putting an FWC on an old Scrambler? I thought someone had done this at www.cj-8.com, but maybe my faulty memory deceives me.

That's it, great catch. My searches wouldn't have caught it, since I only go by words. This is/was the Owens Valley Boat Shop, 1674 North Sierra Highway, Bishop, CA 93514. Google Street View doesn't pick up the address right, but when you backtrack to the right spot, the Googlemobile caught a...

I'm educated and ignorant. Expo-smart, yet still blissfully naive about what goes viral over the internet. I thought since the US is infamous for the most unexpected of custom vehicles, I might find a silly custom where a guy actually made a camper out of a garbage truck body, and it might be...

Oops. I prematurely deleted my post about the Homer Alaska Chalet (the one that "Colorado Ron" quotes back in post his #10, now priced at $1800), on the assumption it was actually sold. **3/13/09 Edit: now it is sold, the new owner is an enthusiastic new member of our Chalet owners' &...

Quick 'n dirty job... a "Finch" model FWC for four-doors, facing the wrong way. Even with the proportions being a tad approximate - I think we will have a slight overhang problem in this application.

How 'bout a sorta similar homegrown version, if ya got lotsa time / money & fiberglass-working skills. Throw your choice of modern 4x4 chassis under a fiberglass 40 Ford Tudor sedan (chopped top version in the background there?), fabricate big ol' flat sheet dually fenders for the back and graft...