Cool truck, bug-out-vehicle

garyo · 05-16-2013, 13:25

http://www.truckcampermagazine.com/o...ug-out-vehicle

Neat site, Truck Camper Magazine, check it out while you are there. You can also sign up for a free email news letter, no spam and all confidential.

The slide-in camper is made by these guys, one of the best off-road campers made.

http://www.fourwheelcampers.com/

garyo

bdcochran · 05-16-2013, 13:57

I was up in the mountains at a class.

Another old timer was there. When he realized that I wasn't a tree hugger, he showed me a feature of his pickup truck. He had two lockable containers that were side by side in the bed of the truck. It was a commercial, not home made situation. A firm from Seattle, WA had made the containers and then had a false floor put above the containers. So, to anyone walking buy, the truck bed was empty. It was only when you pulled down the tailgate that you saw the ends of the lockable containers.

He had quite an arsenal and gear on one side and then ammo and other gear in the other container.

His set up did not scream "I am carrying" or "I am a survivalist."

Of course, he had other features like an ignition cut off.

Aceman · 05-17-2013, 06:24

That had to be awesome fun to build!

RonaldBeal · 05-17-2013, 07:48

That truck(and its owner) were featured in an episode of Doomsday Preppers.

quake · 05-17-2013, 08:34

Kind of like a bullpup .338 Lapua to me. Neat, nifty, unique, and capable; but I don't really want one myself.

Bushflyr · 05-17-2013, 11:13

Ditto.

Supremely cool, super fun to design and build, nice to camp in, but for the money he spent he could have bought a nice cabin and property somewhere to build a perfect BOL.

prism · 05-18-2013, 06:06

flashback http://www.tmz.com/2007/03/08/popper...-small-arsenal

mac66 · 05-18-2013, 06:51

There is a website called Expedition Portal with all kinds of hard core vehicles. Everything from giant expedition trucks to off road campers, vans, truck campers, trailers etc. pretty cool stuff and lots of good ideas.

http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/index.php

I've been pulling a travel trailer all over the country for 25+ years. Because of the cost of gas I decided to downsize. My latest project is a flat bed utility trailer with pop up truck camper on it. It can also hold my ATV and/or motorcycles, and bicycles, and kayaks/or canoe. This is going to be my all season, adventure rig for exploring the back country now that I am retired.

garyo · 05-18-2013, 10:29

mac66,

I'm on EP and WTW all the time! I so want to sell my Chevy camper van and get a pickup and a pop-up camper to do some traveling in. Work is just slow now, but I am saving. Four Wheel Camper is getting ready to release a version of their pop-up designed for a flat-bed pickup, you might want to check it out.

garyo

Hummer · 05-19-2013, 08:40

Yep, nice rig. All it needs is it's own tow-behind fuel tanker.

**kirgi08** · 05-19-2013, 09:02

John Rambo · 05-19-2013, 09:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hummer

Yep, nice rig. All it needs is it's own tow-behind fuel tanker.

First thing I thought.

Its obvious flaw is its going to guzzle gas with all that extra weight tacked onto it. You won't be bugging out too far when you leave civilization and gas stations every few miles/blocks.

I suppose if you had your own little compound where you could pump and process crude itd be a pretty novel idea. Although then you'd have to contend with these guys...

**kirgi08** · 05-19-2013, 09:27

If you buy it as a prep you should be able ta feed it as one.'08.

mac66 · 05-19-2013, 09:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by garyo

mac66,

I'm on EP and WTW all the time! I so want to sell my Chevy camper van and get a pickup and a pop-up camper to do some traveling in. Work is just slow now, but I am saving. Four Wheel Camper is getting ready to release a version of their pop-up designed for a flat-bed pickup, you might want to check it out.

garyo

Thanks for the info, looks intersting but not $20K worth of interesting. There are a ton of used truck campers on the market and I've seen a bunch mounted on trailers. Kind of red neckish, but if done right it would probably look ok.

dhv · Yesterday, 18:35

Just put some big checker plate toolboxes down the sides to fill in the gaps.

Aceman · Yesterday, 20:32

I don't honestly think it's a good vehicle, except in some not so bad/large situations.

But I still think it is cool as hell. Wouldn't be my choice though.

garyo · Yesterday, 20:36

mac66,

I hear ya. If I do ever get a Four Wheel Camper, I'm sure it'll be a shell model, that's all I could afford. Then build it up myself. I'm also not a fan of "luxury camping", I prefer the KISS method in things, as manual as it can be.