Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/12/the-rv-of-my-dreams-is-only-5.html
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This morning’s paper had a story about a family from France tiuring the world, in a converted fire truck.
It looks more like a regualar truck, not a ladder truck.
Someone had done some conversion, but once they bought it, they did more work.
It looks better than the common “convert a school bus” and looked sturdier than the ysual RV.
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It’s pretty sweet -but for full time living? Not so sure that 4 years in that small space would be conducive to a relationship.
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Give it a few years until you can get an all-electric vehicle underneath the camper shell. Then you can do away with the roof-mount A/C, propane gear, and all the extra lead-acid batteries. Think of this setup on a Tesla Semi – or electric VW bus. Then you can go into nature, live like a king, and still be low to no CO2.
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The wife and I did a few years in a small camper and those were the best years of our relationship. Would easily do it again…
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How’s about a previously enjoyed Sandcrawler?
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I wonder whether they ever put this on chasis with Quadrasteer back when that was a thing. That would make driving and parking this monster easier.
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I feel like I walked right past this thing in the mud at Overland East. “If money were no object” is right. But it is, and it’s hard to picture putting half a mil into something that is already depreciating.
Could you just tow a jeep behind your motorhome? You could trick out a jeep with all kinds of overland camping gear, and still be under $50K. The motorhome is your Tranquility Base, and the jeep is your lunar rover. Motorhome gets you 90% of the way there, and the jeep is the last 10%.
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We saw one like this in Nova Scotia a couple of years ago. Based on a Mercedes kurzhauber (short bonnet) diesel truck.
They’re all getting on in age, but available for a fraction of the cost of an Earthroamer.
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You finally give up on owning an original Landmaster?
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This guys use of the words “do” and “run” are not my understanding of what those words mean. “We run a hutchinson bead lock wheel” “We’re running a steel bumper” “We’re running a Warren 16.5 winch” “We do a Lariate package” “We actually do custom made captain’s chairs” “We do a drop of the center console”
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I figure that the best post-apocalypse vehicle is a converted cash-delivery vehicle. (for the armor) With high-rail fittings so that it can be used on railroad tracks which are less likely to be clogged than the roads. And painted up as a rusty diaper delivery van, which is probably nothing anybody would be interested in breaking into.
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As long as you’re talking off-road anyway, why not a less expensive (and all-electric) Bad Boy?
https://www.cabelas.com/category/Bad-Boy-Buggies/106057080.uts
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Electric cars will never catch on. Hydrocarbons are the future!
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We live in ours full time, converted from a school bus.
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I would put my foot through that loft TV on the first night.
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Wow! That is a beast.
Party deck on top?
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We’re pretty happy being around each other constantly. And smaller spaces help with my anxiety, to be honest.
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I’d love to see the interior of you rig! Looks like you put a lot of love and labor into it.
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