I briefly considered buying Draco earlier this year. I visited it at General Auction in Buena Park a few times, took it for a test drive, and spoke at length to its creator, Shahn Torontow.
In the end, I opted instead for a 1968 Unimog 416 DoKa camper.
Without doubt, Draco is exceptionally impressive: that huge 14.6-liter 1,000-pounds-of-torque Caterpillar engine ... luxurious stainless steel, leather, and tile interior ... all the electronic systems, the elevator (which actually is broken now). But it was also purpose-built for a very specific range of requirements, mostly irrelevant to my needs. (It's the perfect vehicle for extended and very comfortable gentle dirt-road travel with a single wheelchair-bound passenger.)
The deal-breakers were its limited off-road capability (no low range, for instance), limited passenger capacity (it seats TWO, and the one bed is tiny), the cost of replacing any of its major components, the 6 mpg HIGHWAY mileage, and its 17.5-ton general unwieldiness.
