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    Fiberglass truck camper build

    Tony! did you put a plywood under the bunk bed or is the mattress directly on the fiberglass shell? when i bough the used unit...they had a big 3/4 plywood on the cabover but it was use for tools etc. It really seems solid and i would not mind saving the weight and cost of a plywood sheet if it...
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    Fiberglass truck camper build

    i m making mine for 2 kids the upper bunk is 42inch deep and taper but you can also overhang it inside. so my is now 66x48. so my 2 little kids can sleep there.
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    Fiberglass truck camper build

    i like it...clean and simple. is the cabover bed for a kid? i m painting the inside of mine and will start building bed and shelving. but very much like you, i want to keep it utilitarian...simple and to be use as camper and cargo box!
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    Fiberglass truck camper build

    Find this one this morning for 1500$. it s a rare 6.5 feet old generation spacekap plus. should make a good starting point for a little fun camper! I still need to lower it in the box with a proper platform and remove the tailgate. Around 550lbs currently! 400km with it this morning and the mpg...
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    SOLD: 2005 Northern Lite 10.2 Special Addition Truck Camper

    if you consider canada as part of north america ;) there are 100s of northern lite camper for sale for less than 20k! Here in bc....everyone own a northern lite or a bigfoot. we see them for sale daily everywhere! They are amazing camper and yours is definitly at a good price this far from...
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    Fiberglass truck camper build

    you dont need to mount jack bracket on those. they use a special tripod jack that fit on the sides and lift it. it s a nice system as you can load and unload the box anywhere, even on uneven terrain. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qlgsPQd5ANs/maxresdefault.jpg
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    So I want to build a truck camper

    a properly aerodynamic design on a hardside camper would do as well as a FWC Take the capri camper, -round all the edges, on the side and at the rear -make the roof a full curve -keep cabover gap to cabin very minimal you will turn very good mpg and neglect any gain from a pop-up. That...
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    Fiberglass truck camper build

    where did you buy it? i m asking as i see your unit is ''rebranded'' and they took the Spacekap and Diablo name off from the unit. Those are made in montreal and great little unit. lots of them for sale used in canada in the 2-3k range and they make for great platform for small camper. if you...
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    New Manufacturer: Cave Campers - 750 lbs, $<10k, high quality

    i was very interested to know more about CPT panel so i simply emailed them. They called me a few hours later. The company is only 45min from my in kelowna bc. The person working there is someone i knew for many years but i didnt know he work in this field! it was a great suprise. The story...
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    Off Road Hard Side Camper

    i have repaired northern lite campers in the past. I do some fiberglass work and redone some flooring on them. i live next to the northern lite and bigfoot factory but i never work on any bigfoot. The picture you show as a lot of components and my understanding is the aluminum framing was on...
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    Off Road Hard Side Camper

    not sure if bigfoot is insulated the same way as northern lite (i m pretty sure yes) but my experience in canada for winter camping...they are the reference in term of insulation. no termal bridging. So i would consider the insulation part to be ;exceptional. interior is normal stuff like...
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    F-150 guys: Fuel tank size and 5.0 V8 questions?

    if you stay off the boost or drive conservative, the Ecoboost return good numbers. i have the 2012 ecoboost supercrew 5.5 bed. 36 gallon tank and driving the penticton to edmonton road at 55-65mph...i can get in the 22mpg range. that mean around 700 miles to a tank. Towing my jacyo 18bh...
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    Market for $80k complete truck and camper - mini earthroamer?

    it s a Canadian Adventurer 19RD. 19 foot lenght made in vancouver. It as a 4X4 conversion and lift most likely. They are actually decent on gas as narrower than usual class C. They are build solid as they are the biggest rental company in canada. Decent machine!
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    Post Pics of Your Hard Side Camper!

    not sure i can be consider or call a ''poor man'' earthroamer but...very nice set up!
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    Market for $80k complete truck and camper - mini earthroamer?

    it s not the same kind of machine. you have a very nice set up but it s very heavily loaded and more of a road set up than a offroad adventure machine. it would definitly not do the job for the kind of camping i imagine doing with a offroad vehicle like a earthroamer or a tune down 150k version...
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    Market for $80k complete truck and camper - mini earthroamer?

    I would love a f150 or f250-350 mini earthroamer but the problem is, even making it a smaller unit won't cut the cost that much so that unit would still need to sell for 250k + to be sustainable as a business. A class c in massive production sell for 60-100k..... imaginenonce you get in small...
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    Big custom camper sightings

    the difference is.... the box and over cab is a commercial normal Class c Thor four wind that is usually attach to a E350 but instead was put on a F350. Wondering if someone did this conversion themself or if thor did a one off... either way...look amazing vs the regular commercial unit
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    Big custom camper sightings

    i m wondering what model is this??? i never seen a f350 front end use on that class C body. it s always with a E350. who made that one? is this a one of?
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    Low-profile hard-side truck campers without cabovers

    the main issue with low profile unit like cowboy, eureka etc is they are less aerodynamic than a cabover camper so end up costing you more in gas vs a well design small cabover. One very good option you could find used in canada and also in usa closer to the northern border is a spacekap. a...
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    camper resting on tailgate down.... ok or not ok???

    thank you everyone! i m starting adding window in the unit in a couple weeks...should have it ready for September and definitely making consensus effort to keep center of gravity very much forward. Loading all water tank/cassette toilet in the first foot of the unit. But overall, it will remind...
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