What happened to pickup truck based "C"s?
While looking at YouTube, I noticed an older Four Winds Majestic (before that became the brand that used rentals were sold under) being pitched at RV Corral. It was on a 4x4 F-350 chassis. Having ...
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Under mine is four bolts. one at each corner and couple straps inbetween. Cruise America used to swap out the house part or truck part when one or the other would get totaled. But they stopped that around 2005 I believe. Labor cost didn't pay to exchange them anymore, what I was told by ex-employee. We picked up ours when CA sold them out of their fleet because they were over 5 years old (no more tax write off, and depreciated to zero) and they were making way for their new European model that they called Compact which is even smaller.
google "chassis mounted camper" then switch to image mode you'll see a few others. Your right nothing really newer at a reasonable cost and very few 4x4.
Look for ads in what some people call them "23p" because that is what Cruise America called them when Thor (four winds) made them to Cruise spec's. Maybe you can find the house part from the truck part got smashed?
Yes, more room than a camper but you'll loose some room up front with engine not being tucked in. I would like to get one as a spare or put on Dodge 2006 or newer with the Cummins 5.9 and 4x4. I'm not sure about 4x4 though. Mine leaves drive way at 10,380 pounds. While I like ours and it has turned out to be the best RV traveling machine that we've owned. But I'm not sure there is that big of market or somebody would be making them. No walk thru to house part. But I do like having something in front of me besides just a windshield. No slide out. There is many pluses and many minuses.
Twice now we have been approached and people that wanted to take pic's of underneath and figure out what it would take to build their own. If you ever plan one out, underneath I think would be the hard part. Getting the right size tanks to fit in the space you have to work with.
I'm not knocking what is available out there, which is very few. But darn do they want a ton of money for them.
You'll notice what I have in my sig line? This thing is perfect for us on short trips. Not very good for long time as in snowbirding, at least for us. Wives biggest complaint on shorter trips is removing heavy pans of food out of micro, because it's mounted to high.
Here is a tour of one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HgkX_bkd08
google "chassis mounted camper" then switch to image mode you'll see a few others. Your right nothing really newer at a reasonable cost and very few 4x4.
Look for ads in what some people call them "23p" because that is what Cruise America called them when Thor (four winds) made them to Cruise spec's. Maybe you can find the house part from the truck part got smashed?
Yes, more room than a camper but you'll loose some room up front with engine not being tucked in. I would like to get one as a spare or put on Dodge 2006 or newer with the Cummins 5.9 and 4x4. I'm not sure about 4x4 though. Mine leaves drive way at 10,380 pounds. While I like ours and it has turned out to be the best RV traveling machine that we've owned. But I'm not sure there is that big of market or somebody would be making them. No walk thru to house part. But I do like having something in front of me besides just a windshield. No slide out. There is many pluses and many minuses.
Twice now we have been approached and people that wanted to take pic's of underneath and figure out what it would take to build their own. If you ever plan one out, underneath I think would be the hard part. Getting the right size tanks to fit in the space you have to work with.
I'm not knocking what is available out there, which is very few. But darn do they want a ton of money for them.
You'll notice what I have in my sig line? This thing is perfect for us on short trips. Not very good for long time as in snowbirding, at least for us. Wives biggest complaint on shorter trips is removing heavy pans of food out of micro, because it's mounted to high.
Here is a tour of one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HgkX_bkd08
