other useful (?) stuff ... odds and sods
Odds (mostly) and sods (one or two)
• cellule amovible pick-up - the personal site of a French demountable enthusiast. It feels incomplete and hasn't changed for a very long time.
• cruiserart.com - fancy a classic camper but can't afford the real thing? Get yourself a picture instead!
• eHow.co.uk - the ehow website is UK registered but all of the demountable-related material on it is generated in the US and either just states the obvious (like 'How to Select a Truck Camper for a Pickup Truck', or 'How to Choose a Camper for Your Truck') or is over-simplistic nonsense (like 'Building Your Own Truck Camper').
• freepatentsonline.com - demountable camper meets bendy bus! One from our strange-but-true department but it might be of interest if you can't make up your mind whether you want a truck camper or a trailer caravan. Why not have both?!
• kommst-du-mit-zu-bishi.de - a cautionary tale, on Jochen Sprenger's blog, of his attempt to get legal redress against the dealer who sold him a Mitsubishi L200 when "dramatic deformations" appeared in the pickup bed while carrying his Nord Star demountable camper. The text is all in German (Google Translate does an adequate job of translating it) but it's the few photos which really tell the story and are a useful reminder of how badly things can go if a camper's tie-down system is not appropriately located or fixed.
• koransky.com - Andrew Koransky's website devoted to the Aliner Truck Cabin, a folding demountable. Although Aliners are still being made as trailer caravans the Truck Cabin is now out of production I believe.
• laura-n-sasha.com - Laura and Sasha Jevtich's website describes in part and in great detail the trials and joys of full-timing in a demountable - a life most people would describe as impossible! They also run a fifth-wheel.
• pickupnroll.com - a difficult website to find your way around, it appears to be part of a commercial enterprise but it changes only rarely. If you click on 'Annonces Cellules' you'll find details of whatever demountables were for sale when the site was last updated. Click on 'Plan du Site' and dig around on some of the other pages and you'll find photos and details of the now-defunct Knaus Traveller demountable.
• thewoodcrafter.net - if you fancy building your own demountable but doubt whether you have the necessary skills or time, here are the plans (free - in .pdf format) for you. It couldn't be simpler, but don't expect too much!
• ukcampsite.co.uk - the COLIM is a German project that has been featured on a number of websites including UKcampsite. Designed by Christian Susana and described on one site as being a "cross between a fifth wheel caravan, a demountable motorhome and a normal caravan and car", it is actually closest in concept to the 'clip-on' campers on our similar but not the same page.
• where-rv-now.com - another blog from people full-timing in a demountable. Although none of it is current - there have been no new additions since 2005 - there is some interesting and useful material hidden away among Teresa Petrykowski and Sterling Udell's musings.
• wipo.int - another from the strange-but-true department, this is a 1991 patent application for a "five-panel system for pick-up truck camper shell" which, presumably, never got off the paper! If you click on the 'Documents' tab you can see a drawing (in .pdf) of the system.
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