1965ish Red Dale Truck Camper
1965-66ish Red Dale Camper. Made in Longmont, Colorado. It's on a 2000 Ford F350 4x4. The camper was gutted on the inside when we bought it for $350. We fixed it up. It's got 300 watts of solar on the roof + 200amh battery. 1000 watt inverter. All led lights. 65quart Whynter fridge/freezer. CampChef stove/oven, 20lb propane tank. 32 gallons water. Manual water pump/faucent. No grey/black tanks (we have a cassette style port-a-potty). Queen size bed. We carry a 2200 watt dual fuel (propane or gasoline) generator. Simple but effective traveling in comfort without a huge monetary investment. Total cost including the truck - less than $14,000.
Here are some pictures of when we got it vs. after our work.
We used many repurposed materials in this camper. For example: All the oak you see is from a huge park bench that was inside a shopping mall. Got the bench free years ago when the mall was remodeled. Lots of other wood salvaged from other projects. Much of the hardware was stuff we had lying around.
1965-66ish Red Dale Camper. Made in Longmont, Colorado. It's on a 2000 Ford F350 4x4. The camper was gutted on the inside when we bought it for $350. We fixed it up. It's got 300 watts of solar on the roof + 200amh battery. 1000 watt inverter. All led lights. 65quart Whynter fridge/freezer. CampChef stove/oven, 20lb propane tank. 32 gallons water. Manual water pump/faucent. No grey/black tanks (we have a cassette style port-a-potty). Queen size bed. We carry a 2200 watt dual fuel (propane or gasoline) generator. Simple but effective traveling in comfort without a huge monetary investment. Total cost including the truck - less than $14,000.
Here are some pictures of when we got it vs. after our work.
We used many repurposed materials in this camper. For example: All the oak you see is from a huge park bench that was inside a shopping mall. Got the bench free years ago when the mall was remodeled. Lots of other wood salvaged from other projects. Much of the hardware was stuff we had lying around.
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