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I love all sorts of cars, from low down impractical nonsense to race cars to hot rods and everything else. Particularly if it is older and modified. One thing it has taken me a long time to come round to is off roaders. Even living out in the wilds of Somerset (sort of) there is little reason to have something off road worthy unless you are green laneing or on a farm. However over the last year or so I've started growing an appreciation for what I guess are called Overlanders. Off road vehicles designed to anywhere and allow you to camp (in comfort) and all that. Handily this interest was fed at SEMA this year, with a hall full of roof tents and other accoutrements suitable for just such an adventure vehicle. Here are some of my favourite inspirations: This is a bit modern, but looked so comfortable! So now I'm looking at the abandoned Subaru Impreza bug eye wagon in my garage, Forester suspension on eBay and starting to formulate plans... Anyone else got some inspiration to share?
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This is our "overlander"... 20190504_111246 by Renee Blote, on Flickr We are preparing the car and getting ready for a few weeks of getting away to the Victoria High Country.
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Last Edit: Dec 8, 2019 21:48:13 GMT by rblote
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We are going here To see a bit of All up about 3800KM. Give or take.
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Last Edit: Dec 8, 2019 21:51:58 GMT by rblote
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merryck
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I started setting up the Land Rover a few years ago to do this. Made a little system to convert the back to a bed. It was quite comfortable, but zero headroom. We used it a fair few times and certainly beats a tent. The next step was to make a canopy to mount off the roof rack at the back to give an enclosed space when it was all set up, but never got round to it and the Land Rover will be going up for sale after Christmas so won't be happening now. Pictures from when we stayed near Land's End; Steel bars slotted onto the top of the rear tub, not great for the paint, and eventual plan was to make them out of aluminium. They split in half for easy storage. Loft boards held the two front shelves in place, which allowed us to place more loft boards in the front which rested on the backs of the front seats. Using loft boards was great - nice and cheap and the machined edge allowed us to lock it all in place with the final sheet. Seriously strong once it was all in place. Barely moved at all. View from the front. With all the bedding in place. Used string and some old black fabric to make curtains, worked perfectly well, had some little battery powered bulbs for light and enough space for a small dog too. Eventually we got rid of the camping mats and just got more blankets underneath for comfort. I reckon I could have slept in that thing for months on end!
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If you Google 'Marmon Herrington Woody' you'll find lots of inspiration! (Marmon-Herrington specialising in early multi-wheel drive systems, adapted existing cars to 4WD before concentrating on military & super-heavy industry variants).
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I'm with you on this HW, have become increasing preoccupied with the whole vehicle dependent travel idea at the minute.
Live in or Roof Top Tent, 4wd/AWD or 2wd...Peugeot 504 estates have frequently traversed the Sahara(scuttles off to seek suitable picture links for later!)
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2014 - Audi A6 Avant 3.0Tdi Quattro 1958 - Chevrolet Apache Panel Truck 1959 - Plymouth Custom Suburban 1952 - Chevrolet 2dr Hardtop 1985 - Ford Econoline E350 Quadravan 2009 - Ovlov V70 2.5T 1970 - Cortina Mk2 Estate 2007 - Fiat Ducato LWB 120Multijet 2014 - Honda Civic 2.2 CTDi ES
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The guy who bought my P38 range rover removed the rear seats and turned the back into storage, he has a roof mounted tent for sleeping in. he toured Europe and Switzerland in it and has also been over to Morrocco several times. He reckons its quite a cheap adventure
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madmog
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In a much humbler, 2WD, way, I camped in the back of my old W124 estate quite a few times. I even knocked up some material to block out the windows. Much less of a faff than putting up tents. Here it is at RRG 09
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This is our old "overlander" 20181231_113846 by Renee Blote, on Flickr We used to have a dual cab Isuzu/Holden with roof top tent. I can't find a photo.
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Jem45
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This has just gone for £2.5k on ebay which ticks a fair few of the proto-overlander boxes for not much coin at all. Bargain adventures are there for the taking!
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Carbs 'n chrome
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Colonelk
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I love the vehicles but sadly don't think theres much use for them in the UK (happy to be proven wrong on that though)
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I love the vehicles but sadly don't think theres much use for them in the UK (happy to be proven wrong on that though) Europe is just over there ----> and as far as I know Brexit doesn't mean we get dragged into the North Atlantic. Could definitely make for some good road trips. Or even go wild and drive it down to Africa
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More suitable for a benevolent dictator 🤣
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Last Edit: Dec 10, 2019 8:31:28 GMT by Deleted
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75swb
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My budget attempt
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Had an SJ LWB, what a great car, unfortunately rusted faster than i could fabricate & weld..... then the engine blew up and it had to go, although it didn't get scrapped, the next owner did a spring over axle conversion which was so good i asked for it back!😀
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