Older Truck Camper Photos of Australian TC's

burningman wrote:
The original Class Cs used to be called “Chassis Mount” campers. They were on pickup-cab trucks.

Since gone upmarket since this shot. Range has quadrupled,

The original Class Cs used to be called “Chassis Mount” campers. They were on pickup-cab trucks.

DutchmenSport wrote:
Third photo, 8 steps from the ground to the floor of the camper. Definitely NOT the camper for someone with bad knees!

I do find it interesting that the Australian version of a "truck camper" is a camper on a flat bed truck and not an insert for a pick-up truck bed. Basically, a travel trailer without wheels on the back of a flat bed truck. Definitely would be more roomy than the North American version. But how many North Americans prefer the flat bed opposed to their pick-up version? Probably not too many. Maybe, that's why the North American Class C is so popular, it's a combination of camper on a truck chassis with the cab back cut out for access without having to go outside.

Don't know if these would ever become popular in the USA, it seems we humans have a way of adapting to our surroundings. And seems the terrain in Australia is more suited and more popular for off-road travel than in the USA. It seems in the USA the majority want paved roads with asphalted campsites and consider that close enough to "nature." The clearance between my 6 point leveling jacks and the ground is only about 6 inches. That would never work driving over rocks and through creek beds. But, I don't know anywhere I can travel to where I could free-handed even drive through a creek bed unless it was a creek that ran through someone's cornfield here.

A lot more possibilities to use Slideons as we call TC's here than in the US. Yes a flatbed is a lot more suitable than a Pickup bed

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you folks have some very innovative RV down there.
bumpy

Third photo, 8 steps from the ground to the floor of the camper. Definitely NOT the camper for someone with bad knees!

I do find it interesting that the Australian version of a "truck camper" is a camper on a flat bed truck and not an insert for a pick-up truck bed. Basically, a travel trailer without wheels on the back of a flat bed truck. Definitely would be more roomy than the North American version. But how many North Americans prefer the flat bed opposed to their pick-up version? Probably not too many. Maybe, that's why the North American Class C is so popular, it's a combination of camper on a truck chassis with the cab back cut out for access without having to go outside.

Don't know if these would ever become popular in the USA, it seems we humans have a way of adapting to our surroundings. And seems the terrain in Australia is more suited and more popular for off-road travel than in the USA. It seems in the USA the majority want paved roads with asphalted campsites and consider that close enough to "nature." The clearance between my 6 point leveling jacks and the ground is only about 6 inches. That would never work driving over rocks and through creek beds. But, I don't know anywhere I can travel to where I could free-handed even drive through a creek bed unless it was a creek that ran through someone's cornfield here.