Demountable camper builders’ blogs - stuff about DEMOUNTABLES

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• Brazilian Homemade Truck Camper - not a blog really but a posting by 'biugueits', on the Old Sparkey forum, about the camper built by himself and his wife. Sadly there is very little hard information but the photos, in spectacular South American locations, may offer ideas or inspiration to those contemplating a similar project.

• BuildYourOwnCamper.html - Bob Wells' Build Your Own Camper page on the Cheap RV Living website. As you might expect from the website's name, Bob's camper was built to a very tight budget. Although it is not clear whether, or not, the camper is actually demountable, it is built on a pickup truck and so some of the design and construction ideas within it could be useful.

• cragalaska.com - definitely not a demountable and certainly not to everyone's taste aesthetically, nonetheless the 'AK Camper' featured on this page of tips and pics may help would-be self-builders avoid some pitfalls and mistakes.

• davestruckcamper.blogspot.com - Dave Howes' blog following his progress building a 'Budget Camper' from plans he bought from Robert Q. Riley (see 'self-build plans').

• dicky-debuilder.blogspot.com - Dicky De'Builder blog described as being about "Demountable Camper Building - the construction of a budget camper for a Hilux pickup".

• DKG's truck camper - part blog, part forum discussion, this and subsequent pages on the Team-BHP website follow DKG's construction of an all-aluminium demountable for his Tata flatbed pickup. It's an interesting construction and his decision to use pneumatic jacks is certainly unusual and well worth looking at.

• fareforwardtravellers.wordpress.com - an informative, four-part blog from an unidentified author who couldn't find what he wanted, or could afford, on the ready-made camper market and so set about designing and building his own. The four parts cover the idea, the design, the construction, and the interior. More parts may follow.

• hackneys.com - Douglas and Stephanie Hackney's "Basecamp Expedition Vehicle (BEV) Project" involved fixing a Bigfoot (see Canadian manufacturers) demountable camper on a Mitsubishi flatbed truck. They describe the process in some detail but in language which is bizarrely business-oriented (lots of talk of concepts, missions, goals, parameters, and so on) and euphemistic ("integrated self-recovery/extraction capability" means it's got a winch!).

• homebuilt-trkcamper.blogspot.com - Dan Rogers' detailed blog follows the process of building his Acapulco camper from plans purchased from Glen-L (see 'self-build plans').

• ig-synchro16.de - a forum thread rather than a blog but, if you're thinking of building a demountable with an elevating roof, there's a mass of ideas and inspiration in the photographs of Volkmar's camper and, if your German is good enough, there's probably a load of information in the text as well. A very nice job - it certainly shows the advantages of starting with a professionally-built shell if you can afford it.

• Ingenuiscampershell.html(sic) - another page from the Cheap RV Living website this time devoted to the "ingenious camper shell" built by Alan Riggins. Based around a fibreglass pickup topper which he bought from a scrap yard for just $50, the 'cRamper', as Alan calls it, is about as compact and inexpensive as a camper can be.

• Mon Camping Car - a French site from someone who has built their own demountable from scratch. Includes a lot of details, diagrams, etc. and a free download of a 23-page .pdf file (télécharger le dossier) on construction of motorcaravan (and demountable) bodies.

• poptopcamper.freehostia.com - an interesting but anonymous two-page (so far) website describing the construction and upgrading of a solid-sided, pop-top demountable camper. There's an album of additional, detailed pictures here on Photobucket.

• puppycuts.ca/little-camper - 'Our Little Camper', an old web page (2003) with pictures and some details about an even older (early 1980s) camper home-built by Larry and Pam Messaros.

• rolloffcamper.com - one of Dennis Sattler's somewhat confusing collection of websites (he seems to collect www domains). This one is about his 'roll-off camper'. It's demountable by virtue of his own 'Synchro-Link' system (see odds, sods and blogs) which looks considerably more sophisticated than the rest of the camper. Each to their own.

• scraggs999's photostream - sadly there is very little written information to accompany them but Scraggs999 has posted a sequence of excellent photographs on Flickr describing the construction of a ply-clad, pop-top demountable for his Ford Ranger.

• thesupercamper.blogspot.com - The Super Camper blog describes itself as being about "the trials and tribulations of building a camper from scratch". Although it's not specifically a demountable it contains some interesting material. Having said that, it also devotes quite a lot of space to the builder, his partner (who writes the blog) and their travels.

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