My Chevrolet Express van Class B- camper
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Dec-21-2014 03:50 PM
After all those years with my wife and I getting older, she decided we needed a little more room so she found me a 2001 Chevrolet Express van with low mileage on the internet. After checking it out and taking it for a test drive we bought it on the spot. It was a nice passenger conversion LT model with all the bells and whistles available in 2001. I will chronicle the changes I made to transform it into my Class B- motorhome in the next few postings. I call it my Class B- (B minus) motorhome because it is just a regular van without the raised roof.
Camping at Custer State Park, SD in February, 2015.
Camping and visiting Scott's Bluff National Monument, NE in October, 2014.
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Aug-26-2016 07:15 PM
Naio wrote:
I juat read this entire thread. Thank you for posting your beautiful work! It gave me many ideas for my own van :).
You are welcome. Many of the ideas I gleaned from other's postings on this forum and other camper forums and websites. The only real originality is adapting them to my van camper conversion.
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Aug-26-2016 06:39 PM
omjones wrote:
Ok so when you are in and on the seat, how do you get the step in? Do you use a cane? That's a long way down to reach for it.
john 'I am Canadian'
I guess I did not make my use clear enough. We do not use the step for getting in and out of the driver's and passenger's seats. We use it only on the side door for getting into and out of the "camper" part of the van conversion. We only have to put the step in from the outside when we are "breaking camp" and heading out on the road. It is a convenience for the camping part of the van.
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Aug-26-2016 05:12 PM
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Aug-26-2016 12:06 PM
1992 GMC Vandura conversion
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Aug-26-2016 11:20 AM
I talked my wife into painting my step for me, then I added some black rubber step tread with stickie back and a "Cookie Monster" vinyl stickie on front. Now it is done.
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Aug-13-2016 03:16 PM
falconbrother wrote:
That is too cool. .............. Anyway, we traveled out of state in the old motorhome and it did fine for the entire trip. Still, I want to convert another van into a camper some day. It's better than a motorhome for road trips, keeps the panic down on those lost mountain winding roads.
Thanks. I am having fun with my van in my retirement. I, too, have a bigger camper, it being a 23 foot trailer camper. But I find myself using and liking the van camper conversion more than the big camper. Next week I am taking the van camper to the Minnesota Renaisance Festival and on to the northern part of Minnesota for some time off in the north woods.
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Aug-13-2016 12:48 PM
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Aug-12-2016 06:22 AM
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Aug-12-2016 05:48 AM
I have a 1989 Dodge XPLORER RV Class B - Purchased 10/15/10 IN CASH
Fiance' purchased a Class C 2002 Dynamax Carri-go on 5/1/15 IN CASH
We've got the best of both worlds
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Aug-11-2016 12:42 PM
Then I added the name tag to the door that my sister gave me, as we call the big blue van the "Cookie Monster."
I just updated my "Cookie Monster" name tag with a "stickie."
We have this guy sitting on the dash:
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Jul-11-2016 05:39 AM
Traveler7 wrote:
Your work is inspiring!
Thanks! Just a farm boy who became a science teacher in a small rural school for 41 years. I love to tinker, make old things look new again, repair and innovate. I am having loads of fun in my retirement with my old Corvette and van camper. Like my wife says, "That van camper is never finished" because I am always looking for ways to improve it.
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Jul-09-2016 07:43 PM
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Jul-09-2016 05:56 PM
I made them flat and 3 inches wide to fit in the drip edge, covered the parts that would touch the van's paint with sticky-backed step/running board rubber. With the large wing nuts, they are easy to tighten by hand -- no wrenches needed. I used a file to file the round hole square for the head of the carriage bolt. The large nut is a spacer because my carriage bolt was too long. I plan to replace it with a shorter one soon.
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Jun-25-2016 02:37 PM