Well, I frittered away part of the afternoon googling stuff about the Quickup Camper and the inventor, J. Baldwin. He's done a whole bunch of stuff; there's a Wikipedia article detailing his accomplishments at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Baldwin
As was said, an interesting fellow. Way more famous than most of us will ever be, and very revered as a clever person with revolutionary ideas.
Which, I suspect, is part of the problem. It's clear from what I read that Mr. Baldwin sees the Quickup Camper as a means of revolutionizing the RV industry and getting us out of those giant non-aerodynamic truck campers. He also thinks that a lot of the problems with getting the Quickup to market have to do with the lack of vision on the part of big manufacturers, along with their sensible desire to not obsolete their current products. (Indeed, he began Real Big, working to get Ford to market it; Ford gave him the F150 and space at the 2001 SEMA show, but that's as far as it went.)
Thus, I doubt that it'll attract his interest much if one of us approaches him with a plan to make twenty of them for lean and mean expedition camper rigs. And that's a shame, 'cuz the more I think about the size, reasonable weight and other advantages, the more I think it could be a pretty trick solution.
I trust Mr. Baldwin won't mind if I link to a few additional photos of the Quickup from the Inhabit.com website.
Mike Hiscox
'77/'95 UNIMOG 416 DoKa Expedition Camper (for sale)
2005 mid/tall 2500 Sprinter Expedition Camper
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