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Road Test... (above) Why... (above) From home to here about 2.5 hfrs. all of it feeling uphill... The shape of the roof enhanced the grip at higher speeds... It loves 55 and so do I... (above) Easy roof access... This could be a photographers dream, or anyone else... (above) It's a head...

The "green/grey" stuff is a high strength polyurethane adhesive used to attach the small panels in place... Later it will be fiberglassed on the outside...

53 - Roof Connections...

52 - Roof Fitting...

When is it...???... Cost to get in...???...

51 - Front Cabin Ceiling... (above) When seated behind the wheel, I only have about 2" of headroom, so I removed the ceiling panel and....... (above) ...... cut off the part that didn't need to be there... This weekend I will fiberglass it with vertical extensions, between the windshield and...

2007 Rubicon - Earthroamer XV-JP #3 Build Thread: http://forum.expeditionportal.com/threads/51254-EarthRoamer-XV-JP-quot-Northwest-Edition-quot

It was a vehicle I worked on a few years ago... I did the interior like a boat...A nice boat... All was cool until the owner, Mike, decided to extend the cab-over part of the cabin by eight inches in length, which the small mid-west start-up RV company did, but they did not make a new extended...

Thanks Mike to you for friendship, encouragement, generosity, wisdom and humor... You are one of a kind...!!!... It has been fun configuring an amazing truck and camper into this... Not better, not worse, just different... Amazingly different... You are right, it had been quite a year...

50 - Road Test Much more to do, but I got the new tail, and back-up lights working, and the rear door latch operational... Good enough for a short drive in the country...

49 - Copper Wall Paint (above) The dash was stripped to get the old stuff out and access the radio... Reassembled again.. (above) A low priority is covering this over... With what...???... (above) The hammered aluminum sheeting is now painted with "Hammered Copper" rattle can paint...

Jeep Progress (above) Cabinet set...Drawer pulls added... Redwood floor filler behind cabinet... Fridge installed... (above) The drawers work much smoother with something in them...These are 300# rated... (above) High output fan behind fridge intake... Will be set on a thermostat switch...

I've been away from the home shop a bit lately, so progress on the Jeep has been limited to dreaming and screaming... Here are few photos of what I've been working on ... Fun stuff, great people ... Homegrown Trailers ...

Both sides... Foxwing on driver side and an 8'er on the passenger side...Close to full coverage... I agree about the rear door swing issue...

Button in, locked...Button out, open... Pretty simple, but the tight installation tolerances of any of these style of latches has you really slow down to install a set... Drill the hole, router the back, precision drawer box alignment, then set the two screws without moving the latch, then the...

47 - Cabinet Latches (above) Included with all the stuff Mike turned over to me were a bag of cabinet latches... Precision installation is a must... The latches were intended for drawer faces 5/8" thick, these are 1/2", so modifications were needed... No big deal, it just takes time...

46 - Wall Covering and Cabinet Oil... (above) The driver side rear cabin is ready for a final wall covering... A thin layer of contact cement was rolled on, and... (above) ...a thin sheet of hammered aluminum, with contact cement on the back, was glued to the cabin wall... There will be wood...

45 - Flooring and Cabinet Veneer... (above) The sub-floor plywood would have been fine under the finish floor, but Wilsonart P-Lam is better... I had a spare sheet laying around... When the redwood floor is pulled out, there will be no doubt if the flooring is clean... (above) The redwood...

44 - Redwood Floor Panel Progress has slowed... Flu, Christmas, freezing cold for weeks and working out of town for close to a week... I did get the drawers for the driver side bench seat / bed built and installed and the veneer is ready to install, but it's just too cold outside and the shop...

Great innovation... Great design and fabrication...!!!... How about a toilet slide...???... Drop down table hardware...???... Me, I have a set of 300# Accuride 3832's for my fridge slide... I had them... The 300#ers also are now strong enough to have the fridge, when extended,function as a...