Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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Glad to hear that the C-10 is going to get repaired. What damage is it that you weren’t able to repair yourself this time?
Unfortunately my C-10 has nearly a foot of snow on top of it here in Central Washington. After last summers trip to Texas pulling a UHaul trailer down then pulling and empty 8.5x 24’ cargo trailer back I found that the bed cross members had rusted away from the years in Kodiak, AK on the 02 F350. So when my boys came home from the military on leave they helped me out by cutting off the rusty bed and wire wheeled and painted the frame. Replaced the broken brake cables and installed a replacement 2007 rust-free bed. The bed bolts no longer stand above the bed floor. ????.
But now I am building a small bunk-room in the front of the cargo trailer, as we purchased a small fixer in central Texas and are slowly moving things down so that I can retire in two years. Then we hope to home base from the little house in Texas and travel around the country in the C-10 and F350. I’m just limited in power with the 5.4 gas engine and no money for a new truck. Yet when traveling with just the C-10 we get 11-14 mpg. Add any trailer and I’m down to 7-11. And while it will cruise 70 with a trailer on level I’m grabbing gears on the 6 spd at the slightest grade. So the Avion will get a break for the next few trips to Texas and we’ll just camp in the trailer freeing up the bed to haul a four-wheeler or a riding lawnmower etc.
sorry for the rambling. Just catching up from not posting anything for a really long time. Happy New Years to you all! Garry
Unfortunately my C-10 has nearly a foot of snow on top of it here in Central Washington. After last summers trip to Texas pulling a UHaul trailer down then pulling and empty 8.5x 24’ cargo trailer back I found that the bed cross members had rusted away from the years in Kodiak, AK on the 02 F350. So when my boys came home from the military on leave they helped me out by cutting off the rusty bed and wire wheeled and painted the frame. Replaced the broken brake cables and installed a replacement 2007 rust-free bed. The bed bolts no longer stand above the bed floor. ????.
But now I am building a small bunk-room in the front of the cargo trailer, as we purchased a small fixer in central Texas and are slowly moving things down so that I can retire in two years. Then we hope to home base from the little house in Texas and travel around the country in the C-10 and F350. I’m just limited in power with the 5.4 gas engine and no money for a new truck. Yet when traveling with just the C-10 we get 11-14 mpg. Add any trailer and I’m down to 7-11. And while it will cruise 70 with a trailer on level I’m grabbing gears on the 6 spd at the slightest grade. So the Avion will get a break for the next few trips to Texas and we’ll just camp in the trailer freeing up the bed to haul a four-wheeler or a riding lawnmower etc.
sorry for the rambling. Just catching up from not posting anything for a really long time. Happy New Years to you all! Garry
