Ok found a stopgap for the next year or 2. It will fit on my current truck, but am having some suspension work done to make sure it's good to go. The total weight of the new load is under the tire capacity so new tires are not needed. I feel pretty secure that I could turn around and sell the camper next year for about what I'm paying.
Still haven't heard anything from Hallmark besides the echos of laughter from 700 miles away. That's ok though they're busy as hell.
New GM trucks are available if you want to spend $75,000+ for all the useless junk that they are shipping then with. $1000 for iridescent white paint or $900 for sun roof for example. I even considered buying a 4500 or 5500 chassis cab and having the the DRW converted to SRW! Which isn't hard w Ford or Ram, but not that easy w GM afaik, but just starting my research on that.
All in all I'm spending about 20% of what I had planned to so perhaps I'll find out that a 6.5' pop up does the job and I won't have to go for the big bucks. In either case it's going to be another year before that would happen so maybe the outcome will be the for the best.
Anyway thanks for the encouragement!
