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Wow, gosh, thanks! Been blessed with time ('til i start my business), good English skills, fast fingers and a photographic memory. Post #35 here for a view of my car on the west side of the Alpine Tunnel, didn't make it up to the aforementioned east side 'til 2001. The west side road road is a...

I figured those comments in the other thread weren't going to be well received. Good of you to explain it here, and I can identify in some way with what's behind it. Multiple years ago when I arrived at the parking area at the end of the navigable road to the east portal of the Alpine Tunnel in...

Takes a while to go through a 36 page thread. Nice work, Louis. What mileage to you get, and is the floor under the rear seats mostly flat or have ups & downs? Kicking around a few ideas for myself and a more compact way to go Colorado campin', so research is in order...

Wow. Near 100% ignorance on these for me, a quick eBay & Craigslist search shows Discos I & IIs going for 5 to 9 grand, they look more expensive. Prompts three questions: What kind of mileage do they get, how easy it it to remove the back seats, and can either handle a receiver hitch carrier on...

Brad, at least two of the members of our Yahoo forum are right in the process of the transfer of the Chalet shells to newer same body style diesel Blazers, and a third guy started but gave up on the idea. Meanwhile the creator of the Yahoo forum Doug W is an advocate of the swap idea as...

Eeek. 31 gal tank for my Chalet with prices at $4/gal gives me the creeps. 1977 era 400 engine with a carb is 9-ish mpg? It's still not fully restored, so my vacation in the Ouray area last week is basically what I've done for the last 20 years, tent camping out of a nicely maneuverable...

My God! (the internet is such a neat place to find photos....) the photo below is looking down on the switchback in my second panorama photo in my post #8 above. This is from a 2005 photo collection of the Hardrock Hundred Mile Endurance Run. I had a hard enough time just hiking up a couple of...

From my post #18... Done. Two days ago, actually. And now that I've been waaayy up there, I now know that what I must have seen was someone wearing a big backpack who was quick-stepping down the trail. It's much too steep and rough to bike down. The meadow in my photo last year is the little...

From my post #2 in this old thread, one more degree of silliness with the "cobracamper" (originally done to mess with the mind of a kit car Cobra guy I know who felt limited to driving on only the Hawaiian island he lives on).

It's a bit of a stretch for 4x4 practicality..... I can say from firsthand experience that my friends at soajeep have used the daylights out of their stretched Wrangler. I'll have to ask them in a couple of weeks if this company did their conversion.

I'll bet there's a majority of us in this forum who have "an llth way" to be more environmentally sensitive when we camp, where we pack out a small portion of other insensitive clods' trash when we leave a campsite. I've done this for decades, in my little trash bags there's always a bit of room...

Jeez, I've had this thing since maybe the early 1980s, when my red LED digital watch gave up the ghost. Might have cost $15 at the time, surely I've spent double that over the years to replace the batteries. Still love it because it is so thin and lightweight.....

Yours didn't have a gauge on it, did it? If it was like the new 20# horizontal tank that an RV repair service installed in my Chalet, that was the float for the gauge. Mine made an eerie noise like there was a washer scraping around in it, but it didn't rattle. The repair people put just enough...

To the best of my knowledge, the one in posts 1 & 2 is still available. Here's the latest complete rig on eBay, Elko NV, $2500 buy-it-now, engine doesn't run and it appears to be missing the closet in the back passenger side...

Was looking for another link on these but stumbled across this one 1979 TOYOTA CHINOOK Camper, 4x4, $900. 208-315-1694 June 12th 2008 ad from this site http://www.sooperads.com/classads9.html No photo and $900 is not a positive indicator of condition. 208 is Idaho Now, if you want to skip the...

And don't forget the 4x4 General Motors versions (a complete bolted together motorhome, not a slide-in, ignore the nonfactory colors on this one) http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/rvs/710640348.html

I could lean in this direction if I decide my Chalet is just too ungainly to drive around. Just spotted this ad http://burlington.craigslist.org/rvs/663604483.html as an example of almost the whole concept, I'd want a 2-speed transfer case and a bit more ground clearance for off road driving...

You've completely ruled out old Blazer Chalets? Not a 'van' exactly, but still essentially a micromotorhome, dime-a-dozen standard Chevy truck parts, somewhat customizable interior and more outward visibility with more windows than a Sportsmobile. Mine is in Mesa, in case you want to see one...

Here's another one http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Chinook-Concourse-2100-RV-Ford-7-3L-Turbo-Diesel-4x4_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ50058QQihZ003QQitemZ130220906658QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW I swapped a couple of emails with a spokesman at the 'new' Chinook before the company went ashcan, he said...

Double bummer. In a nutshell, classic car dealers are throwing a monkey wrench in getting a real value established for these rare GM factory campers. The serial number 58 Chalet in the post above now appears here http://ww2.collectorcartrader.com/details.php?adId=90257930 and now a different...