insane camper

Sleepy is right - people need to think long and hard before putting $$$ into buying or building something like this. They've got to ask themselves - "how much am I going to use this?" and "would I use it more if I spent less money and bought a conventional motorhome?". If they will really make use of it then that is great - get the truck and have a great adventure.

However, my fear is that you spend enough money to buy a nice house on something like this, use it once on a fairly big trip, but are too frightened to take it too far from civilisation, then don't use it again because of the cost, the difficulty in parking it, etc. (notice the only picture provided of it 'overlanding' was the one DJ pointed out on that dirt road, which looked like a hill on a country bordering the Mediterranean - i.e. Europe - I suspect if they had taken it somewhere adventurous like Mongolia or the Namib then they would have posted that picture instead - i.e. did the fear of losing such an expensive vehicle limit their travel plans?).

There are many who will spend the same money on luxury A class coaches, but they have thought about their needs and can justify the expense because they spend a lot of time using the vehicle.

Sadly there are plenty of people who will part with good money because they have seen something that looks fashionable and adventurous and want a bit of that image too, even if they will never properly use it (the fashionable image for these trucks undoubtedly comes from watching the support trucks on the Paris-Dakar rally on cable TV). I see plenty of Land Rovers here which have every aftermarket offroad accessory - diamond plate aluminium panels, unused winches, snorkels, hi-lift jack, expensive roof rack, LED spot lights, etc. but never drive offroad for fear of scratching the black metallic paint finish - same thing (image), just less $$$.

Steve.

I hope it's got a good set of skids cause if it keeps going over those rocks it is "posing" on things are going to get ugly. $$$ ugly!!!!

I like the label "insane" and I'd never think "truck camper".

I can imagine this unit parked in a junky place with grass grown up around the wheels and maybe a few small trees have grown since last moved. The owner will quickly tire of the fuel bill, the maintaince costs, and the costs of a tire replacement. Finding another "nut" to buy it would be almost insane.

When is the last time you saw an "A Frame truck camper" except in a picture posted on your computer... but someone out their is contemplating building one... Or the luxury class A built on a garbage truck that shows up with each new wave of new RV owners?

Some people are fasinated with being noticed... even if it means being strange... like spending all of their waking hours tugging their beltless pants up over their exposed azz crack. Or having a monocolor tramp stamp showing. I immediately think, "That person has been in prison where belts aren't allowed or colored ink isn't available" They just think "keep tugging"

Sleepy

If you have the dinero and cajones to buy something like this, you don't worry about ugly.
jefe

Didn't even think of a composter! You may well be right....

Those things make absolutely no sense to me. The main thing required for composting is TIME- who wants to wait weeks for stuff to break down into dirt before you can get rid of it????

Francesca Knowles wrote:

loulou57 wrote:
Did I miss where it had the blk tank capacity?

Pic from ad:

This might be a porta-potty, or could be a "cassette", which allows for removal of bottom tank without disturbing the top part.

Looks like a composting toilet to me.

:):)

loulou57 wrote:
Did I miss where it had the blk tank capacity?

Pic from ad:

This might be a porta-potty, or could be a "cassette", which allows for removal of bottom tank without disturbing the top part.

If it can't come off, it isn't a camper

....pure speculation on my part: I'll bet that the "living unit" unfastens via in-cab switch, and the/a hydraulic tilt-lift allows the box to be unloaded ?

Dak makes a good point: the right tool for the job. I foresee this unit being at home in the wide-open plateaus of South America, and the wide open deserts of North Africa and, further south in Namibia (there-around), where the 3000 kilometer fuel tank and on-board self-containment would thrive....

Impressive! However not my cup of tea. Too big, too long, too heavy, too EXPENSIVE!..... but impressive! Takes a special kind of person to purchase/use a rig like this. It may go places my little TC won't, but my little TC will go places IT can't. It's all relative I suppose.

Dak

I didn't see any jacks. If it can't come off, it isn't a camper. ;-)