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from American dimensions back to tiny European sizes.....

flaxi
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hello TC-friends,
in life things changes....and now we changed our rig. I want to tell you: kids are growing, daughter with her 19 years prefers to do holidays together with her friends, - same happens to our son, who makes his own "agenda". So, more and more my wife and me will travel alone, sometimes with kids, but less and less often.
So we decided to change to a smaller rig, which would produce less problems here in small european villages and parking slots.......
With tears in the eyes we sold our Dodge Ram and our nice Adventurer 810WS, which we used during 8 years. So, during all these years our kids were "growing up" in the camper ๐Ÿ™‚
Our new truck is a Nissan Frontier (here called "Navara", because it is produced in Spain). It's a 2007 model with 171HP Diesel engine, and very important: conforming to european emmission standards. The TC (made in 2001) is manufactured by the Italian "TrendUP" Company: TrendUp-Camper .
The great advantage is that the cabin consists 100% of glass fiber walls, so we get a very good isolation coefficient and we must not worry about rotten wood.......
All in all we are very happy, because we feel very cosy inside the camper. Important for us was a wet WC + shower room.
Here are some photos, hope you like them.

BTW: Merry Christmas and a happy New Year to all !! ๐Ÿ™‚

















(and yes, we are able to bent so much to use the toilet-... ๐Ÿ™‚ ๐Ÿ™‚ )


next projects (just i work): to take away the colored dots, to paint the blue corners into grey, to change the cushions, to install nice sound equipment and so far....
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drc5900
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VERY nice truck & camper combo, I really like it!
Overall looks like great quality & cozy.
Love that bathroom with the foldable sink.
Congrats on the purchase!

RobertRyan did great research, many of those Aussie setups look good too.

Wishing you all wonderful and safe travels.
1997 Dodge Ram Cummins 3500 Dually 5.9L Turbo Diesel, Billeted Goerend Auto Tranny & Triple Disk Torque Converter w/Manual Lockup, 3.5 axle ratio.
1992 Jayco Jay Hunter 950, w/Homemade: tiedowns/dually jack adapters/long hitch, Hott-Rod, 700W inverter.

roamermatt
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I also really like your camper and wish there were more like it available in the US. And I hope some of the manufacturers/importer are eavesdropping!

Victory402
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I love your camper, It's dificult to find anything with a bath for the smaller trucks in USA. looking good!:)

flaxi
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why ? No prob: we step over the seats left and right. Last time our sun was sleeping onto the lowered table. Not any prob. ๐Ÿ˜‰

sabconsulting
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Hey, it is looking really cosy in there now. Very nice.

How do you find getting into the bed with the table there?

Steve.
'07 Ford Ranger XLT Supercab diesel + '91 Shadow Cruiser - Sky Cruiser 1
'98 Jeep TJ 4.0
'15 Ford Fiesta ST
'09 Fiat Panda 1.2

flaxi
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step by step a bit more cosy: ๐Ÿ˜‰

flaxi
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wow, you are the greatest !
But in this thread we are talking about a non-offroad-camper, you see ?!

RobertRyan
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Australian Unconventional Camper in the US on its way across the globe. it is a modified Japanese Pickup with a flatbed.

RobertRyan
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RobertRyan
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Road of Bones Russia

Dust storm Mongolia

Tibetan Highway

RobertRyan
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Flaxi wrote:
The European market of small, reliable campers is much greater than downunder, only comparable with the tough popup campers like Fourwheelcamper in USA !

No it is not Flaxi there are fewer builders than here, yes we have had fourwheelcampers pop tops and the others like Adventure, Northstar, Livinlight etc but they have virtually disappeared from the Australian market.These have not be suitable, that is why they have disappeared Problem is Japanese Pickups crack their beds in Europe but not here, you have a major problem in how you mount the TC's.
From the Stickies
Australian TC/Slideon Manufacturers
Expedition vehicles.Yes they all have been to the Siberia , Mongolia, the Sahara and the Andes.
all Terrain Warriors
Amesz Motorhomes/All terrain vehicles
SLR Motorhomes
Earthcruiser Motorhomes
All Terrain Warrior

flaxi
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a video as example:

Azalai offroad

or this one:

RRcab in Sahara

or:

Tischer in Mongolia

flaxi
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RObert,
you shoul regard that here are thousends of hardcore TC Driver, who go hardest ways to Romania,Albania, Russia, Sahara etc.
And you must know that here are so MANY manufacturers of hardcore TC, only a few examples:
have a look:
http://www.exkab.de/
http://www.geocar.com/
http://www.ormocar.de/kabinen-fahrzeuge/kabinen-pickups/
http://www.uro-camper.com/

The European market of small, reliable campers is much greater than downunder, only comparable with the tough popup campers like Fourwheelcamper in USA !
๐Ÿ˜‰

RobertRyan
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Many campers are put to extreme Off Roading here, so a Pickup bed as such does not work.