While walking home from storing my camper at storage facility, I past a body fender place. Sitting out in it's yard was a sad looking camper. Now since there are not a lot of truck campers on Long Island I probably know it's owner. How it got wrecked I can only guess it hit one of Long Islands low Highway over passes.

Pity no one threw a tarp over it, while it's sitting there. Damage will just escalate.

3 dog nights wrote:Pity no one threw a tarp over it, while it's sitting there. Damage will just escalate.I don't think additional damage is going to hurt that one.

Have to figure that is a total loss.

Yes, a total loss and doesn't anyone notice that there is not one vertical wall stud showing or even an end of one at the top of the fractured wall or at the bottom of the cab over area? In other words, the skin had to be the support for the cab over extension. Not a well built TC in my view.Do your walls in your home not have wall studs either?

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GWolfe
Explorer
Jun 18, 2017
Kinda looks to me like it was laid over on its side. Wouldn't there be more damage to the top along the front if it hit a bridge? I'm not familiar with the Long Island Parkway bridges though.
stufarmer
Explorer
Jun 18, 2017
I'll bet someone from the west coat was visiting Long Island and had to learn about the notorious
Long Island Parkways the hard way.
Kayteg1
Explorer II
Jun 18, 2017
Grit dog wrote:
bighatnohorse wrote:
Grit dog wrote:

How slow should I go? I mean 70 mph and a 30mph head wind =........

. . .= 5 mpg
:)

Lol thats about right if I had a hemi!
Even still I bet the diesel ain't doing very good in the mileage department either.

In last couple of months I made 4 trips between Las Vegas and San Francisco with 16' cargo trailer.
Going empty to SF I averaged 9 mpg, coming with about 9000 lb of cargo I averaged 11.2 mpg.
CC always set at 60 mph.
You can guess witch way winds blow on desert.
RamblinAnne
Explorer
Jun 18, 2017
Stefonius wrote:
The TC damage on Long Island looks like a case of "I can take the Parkway... I'm not a truck!"

I would put money on that being the case. Those **** Long Island parkways!
Grit_dog
Navigator
Jun 09, 2017
bighatnohorse wrote:
Grit dog wrote:

How slow should I go? I mean 70 mph and a 30mph head wind =........

. . .= 5 mpg
:)

Lol thats about right if I had a hemi!
Even still I bet the diesel ain't doing very good in the mileage department either.
HMS_Beagle
Explorer
Jun 09, 2017
The boat looks repairable, even fairly easily repairable. The camper not so much.

Nearly every camper uses the sidewall as a stressed skin to support the cabover. There needs to be some other structure as well (mainly to keep the skin from buckling). Surely cantilevering a 2x4 out 8 feet over the cab won't do to.
joeshmoe
Explorer
Jun 09, 2017
Don't forget pressure test it. lol

Nolan...WTF? What a bummer. The fiberglass on these newer boats isn't as thick as it used. Ours is an old river boat, but it's built like a barge.
Fish_mojo
Explorer
Jun 09, 2017
A little Eternabond ought to fix it right up......
Stefonius
Explorer
Jun 09, 2017
The TC damage on Long Island looks like a case of "I can take the Parkway... I'm not a truck!"
anutami
Explorer III
Jun 09, 2017
No one was hurt except for my pride as a boat captain.

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