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Sag definitely can occur especially if your camper is older and run down (see my thread for the shape the camper was in when I started) I’d just make it the size of the bottom of the floor, tipped up on its side and strapped to a wall for storage it doesn’t take up any more space

i built my dolly using 6" casters, a 2x4 frame, sheeted with 5/8" ply and a 2x6 with the casters mounted to it, id estimate it to be about 14" off the ground. i can't pop the camper up in my garage as i have a big beam running down the middle of it. i could pop the camper if i rotated the...

i hauled my Grandby up to ATC for some work on a utility trailer. this particular grandby below (the used one the day i bought it) had spent most its life on a trailer, i know the original owners and it had been this way since about 1999. they liked it on the trailer for the flexibility as...

also got these, interior siding going in, propane box in (also relocated), exterior siding going on, looks like some wires poking out places. i had em put on the exterior clearance lights cuz i like em, and also porch lights.

ok, so, got some pics from the guys at ATC. they have the camper shortened to hawk length, front wall repaired/rebuilt, all new rear wall, sides fixed/re arranged, smaller window opening framed, new floor pack in.

Marty, Thank you for the update, I am looking forward to getting my camper back in hand, but as we talked today, absolutely no sweat on my part. Be well. -colby

Where I’m at in so cal, we don’t have a shelter in place order yet, rather a suggestion that if you’re not essential, please stay home. Apparently automotive repair is essential. Which I can buy, but we do vintage mercedes only and none of them are daily drivers. I’m sure we’ll get thru it...

They do put the 3.5EB in the regular cab but ya gotta get a long bed. I’m in the same boat. My current colorado is going away soon. I’m looking at full size trucks to haul my FWC (grandby being modded to hawk) and it’s down to basically a F-150 but the jury is out on the rest of it. I can have...

Those should be four pieces welded together, not 4 individual sections. At least that’s how my 1999 grandby is/was (it’s being turned into a hawk at ATC) New door possibly, maybe ATC has some older door parts there. If they haven’t scrapped my rear door yet, they definitely do.

you could take one of these caps, add rigid insulation very easily and panel the inside (thats all thats in a FWC) a propex furnace would be a relatively simple install, or one of the diesel heater options, if wanting to use an atwood/dometic you would have to make sure they frame an opening in...

The bottom 3 are the same camper. The first one is a different camper. There’s some good threads on tacoma world if you search “aluminum truck camper” and “commercial truck camper” on there. ARE is much cheaper than tradesman, they kinda start around $2400 and go up from there, optioned like...

ARE DCU custom build (these run about $3500 for the bare shell)

Looking at the first pic it looks like a custom commercial shell. Something along the lines of an ARE DCU I don’t have em on this phone but I’ll add some pictures when I get home. I almost bought one like that for my colorado. ARE, workmate, and tradesman will make a topper like that for your...

They will install a picture window, have various sizes, just won’t open.

Hey right on! Good to see ya here!

That works too, but by the time I left my sisters place in Oklahoma, I’d been on the road/gone 11 days and I just wanted to get home to my own shower, bed, wife, dog, cat in no particular order. I figured I’d drive til I got tired. Well, I left 7am, and I wasn’t getting tired til after kingman...

Thanks Ski, I’d love pictures in the middle of the process but I didn’t want to bother asking Jeff to photo document it. Jeff said “six weeks” but I know how it is so I’m not gonna bug em.

I just transported my grandby on a 5x8 utility trailer I rented from a local guy here in so cal. Drove from Costa Mesa to Sacramento and back on Friday to drop mine at ATC for repairs Easy AF. Tulsa to LB is a one day drive. I drove from Muskogee, OK to Tustin on my way back from expo East...

me too!

all hand rubbed birch paneling inside, poplar framed, glued and pocket screwed together. the cushions are original and still have the upholstery manufacturer tags on em. all the windows are rebuilt originals. all the aluminum trim inside is original. the appliances are all original.

Yeah, its been fun thus far. i bought it 12-1-19 and then just kinda sat on it a little bit. going back and forth on doing it myself, what do i want to do with it, how do i want it etc. after talking to ATC on the phone and deciding id let them do the major rehab, then it was easy to just gut...

So, now were current. The Camper is at ATC for repairs/refurb. the list is long, but it should be very nice when done. THE LIST: -Resize to 6.5' bed trucks by moving the front wall back the 18" -New floor pack to fit modern current year half ton trucks (not sure what truck I'm buying next)...

2-21-20 got up at 2:30am, drove to the shop, swapped cars, jumped in the truck and headed up to Sacramento from Orange County, made it to ATC by 10:30 am Jeff and the boys made short work of unloading it.

2-20-21 rented a little trailer and got the camper onto the trailer to get it delivered up to ATC for the rebuild. got the lil colorado hooked up to the trailer to drag it up there.

so, the camper is gutted. i removed: -the sink, not planning on re installing a sink -furnace, ATC will refit the furnace -propane box -fridge, broken old 3 way fridge. trashed it