I'm curious to know if anyone's done their own van conversion? It seems an interesting project that someone on this forum might have attempted.
We're wondering if a campervan or caravan might suit it's. We're keen campers using the car and various sizes of family tent. The packing and repacking of the car to move on made us think a van to carry everything without car roof boxes and bikes on the back would be easier, that lead to campervans and caravans, but they're so expensive unless you get an old one. The idea for buying a normal van then converting it ourselves has gotten into my other half's mind and won't come loose.
Have you done a simple panel van conversion into a full on campervan or even a simple van with a mattress? Was it hard, expensive, time consuming, fun, etc? Would it be within most sensible people's abilities? We've got very useful family members to call on as back up including someone with a very practical/engineering mind and another a mechanic in a past life. How long in man hours would you expect you took if you ever added it up?
Any photos would be interesting or a link to anything relevant would be helpful too.
We're wondering if a campervan or caravan might suit it's. We're keen campers using the car and various sizes of family tent. The packing and repacking of the car to move on made us think a van to carry everything without car roof boxes and bikes on the back would be easier, that lead to campervans and caravans, but they're so expensive unless you get an old one. The idea for buying a normal van then converting it ourselves has gotten into my other half's mind and won't come loose.
Have you done a simple panel van conversion into a full on campervan or even a simple van with a mattress? Was it hard, expensive, time consuming, fun, etc? Would it be within most sensible people's abilities? We've got very useful family members to call on as back up including someone with a very practical/engineering mind and another a mechanic in a past life. How long in man hours would you expect you took if you ever added it up?
Any photos would be interesting or a link to anything relevant would be helpful too.