Dream Expedition vehicle

[Viggen]

Great Thread!!!

I have a thing for box on wheels design.

So, if we are dreaming, I would take a diesel powered H1, carve about a foot out of the center of it to make the width a little more sane, slap on the deep water kit and a full length roof rack and I would call it a day.

More realistically, give me a 4 door first gen Trooper with a nicely mildly built and boosted VW TDi with a Toyo 5 speed, and I would be very happy. Something like this but 4 door.

 

[Street Wolf]

Slightly toned down and luxurious version of the MRAP

A Defender 110, H1 Alpha, MAN, or.... this


:sombrero:

 

[RMP&O]

I used to dream about the Unicats and Mog camper conversions....saw my first one way back in the late 80s and spent near 20yrs dreaming of them. Then I realized how big, heavy, expensive and difficult it would be to drive that in most places in the world. So I gave up dreaming about them...still admire them but no longer dream to own one.

Besides Nissan, Toyota and Benz I question everything else for reliability and availibility of parts on a global scale.

These days I am much more realistic. I want a Patrol. High roof GQ or custom Ute cab. TD42 worked turbo intercooled, mated to an domestic auto like a TH400 and then an Atlas 4spd. Either the high roof converted to a camper platform or the Ute with a camping platform bed. In 2012 these become legal to import into the USA...I will be owning one!

The earlier MQ/MK Patrols are already available to import and I do like the older high roofs but I am after the GQ due to upgraded coil spring suspension all around and better drivetrain and engines. Here is an old one though I could deal with....

 

[Sasquatch]

Camper Trike!!!

 

[Nightkrawler]

for me traveling solo or with friends. Travel light minimalistic approach would have to be the fly fisher with a 300tdi :smiley_drive:

 

[blackheart]

Slightly toned down and luxurious version of the MRAP

That is retard heavy

 

[blackheart]

Mine
equipped with

GPS

CB

HAM

SAT com - tv / radio / internet

propane generator / gas generator / battery inverter - redundant systems as protocol calls for

 

[Street Wolf]

That is retard heavy

Good, then I shall call it the 'Retard Crusher'.

 

[blackheart]

Good, then I shall call it the 'Retard Crusher'.

No
call it the Arab bank account fund

Or

OPEC is glad I drive this

 

[Street Wolf]

No
call it the Arab bank account fund

Or

OPEC is glad I drive this

********, dumb ***.

 

[alexfm]

I'd start with this:

http://www.pinzgauer.com/shpics.php?table=vehicles&idnum=114

Move the double-spares to the outside of the cage, and wall the cage to make a camper out of it. Lift it a bit, maybe extend the cab to 4 doors. That would be awesome.

 

[Cambo]

This rig has always been a favorite of mine and a fellow Expo member owns it. The tan one in the pics is the one I am familiar with, although the red one looks awesome too!

 

[AmericaOverland]

You guys have posted some really nice vehicles so far. However, you guys think to small!

How about one of these:

http://www.trekkeryachts.com/index.html

Or better yet the first one listed here:

http://www.expeditionyachts.com/services.html

With one of these on board:

http://www.unicat.net/en/index2-Individual.html

It is after all a dream, why not dream big!

With one of those on board? You've got two options.

Use it like you would; store the unicat on the boat and egress at your port of choice.

Or, gut nearly all of the boat except for steering and living quarters, and just build a giant switchback system from the bottom of the hull to above the water line with a turnaround pad at the top of the "mountain" so you can drive it back down. Simulate nature along the pathways in between the switchbacks. Take that inside of a hurricane and enjoy your "quaking switchbacks." You gotta have something to do at sea, you know...

Stephanie

 

[Lynn]

With one of those on board? You've got two options.

Use it like you would; store the unicat on the boat and egress at your port of choice.

Or, gut nearly all of the boat except for steering and living quarters, and just build a giant switchback system from the bottom of the hull to above the water line with a turnaround pad at the top of the "mountain" so you can drive it back down. Simulate nature along the pathways in between the switchbacks. Take that inside of a hurricane and enjoy your "quaking switchbacks." You gotta have something to do at sea, you know...

Stephanie

Since I see you're talking about floating a big rig, I thought I'd mention that this LARC is back on eBay. They have been asking $125k for it for years, now I see that they have a buy it now of $90k. What a deal!

 

[AmericaOverland]

Since I see you're talking about floating a big rig,

What I meant was, you build a switchback landscape INSIDE the boat with the hull deck removed except for steering and living quarters, and then drive your unicat all around the landscape while at sea.