Thread: 4x4 camper conversion ideas...

Originally Posted by Tussock

I shacked up with a pretty Russian/Isreali traveler who had been living in a Honda CRV for 5 months. Did you know those things have a picnic table in the back from the factory?

I aways slept in the back of a ute with a tarp or tent fly over the door of the tonneu cover. Enough gear it takes ~15 min to se up and pack up. Then road tripping.

Now freedom camping near roads is close to illegal 4x4 is essential. I love just driving in NZ and sleeping rough.

New girl can handle outdoors as well as I can so camping back on the menu. Turning long wheel base landcruiser into a camper.

I will probably put a fold out platform and squab mattress in the back and put a small canvas awning (get fucked Gimp) over the back doors. Going to put a light tent fly over the roof/roof rack so you can stack gear up there and access it via the retractable roof window (the word for those things evades me).

Its good to be able to pack and unpack fast. Get a system going and its barely noticeable.

Can't beat a 70 series for holding all the junk and still functioning like a 4x4.

Your old mate scribe has a long wheel base land cruiser internal access with a pop top that goes to a double bed bloody nice setup.