Truck Camping Photo Thread

A-frame style. I sent you a pm with some details of the towing experience.

 

Gotcha. And thx.

 

No problem at all . Let me know if you want some more info on it.

 

Though I'm unclear. .. you driving an A/TACOMA or manual? Must be an auto.

 

Auto here. I'm sure someone with a '16 manual will bring their thought eventually, but I'm driving the auto. I just move it over to the sport "manual" shifting mode to avoid it going into 6th gear.

 

Im about to pull the trigger on the Napier Sportz 57 Series Tent. What is your experience with it? I'd love to hear your thoughts on it. Awesome pic by the way.

 

We used for a few years a Sportz tent. Don't know the model, but was a good tent. 10x10 floor, set up on ground behind the truck, had a boot to envelope the entire rear of the truck, truck bed was bedroom, tent was living space. Was very effective set up. Could pull truck away, seal the boot up, drive away. Sportz seem good. Hope this gives something useful.

 

https://www.google.com/#tbs=mr:1,ca...57+series+truck+tent&spd=13894320522845885485

 

Thanks! The tent is solid. I've had it up a few times when the winds were high and it held up nice and strong. The quality of the tent is really good and the setup is pretty straight forward and it gets easier after the first try. The only downside is that you obviously lose bed space to store stuff over night. I usually just put everything in the back seats and under the truck. There have been a few times where I was too lazy to transfer everything over so I stored everything under my tonneau and pitched a regular tent.

Overall, the tent is pretty awesome.

 

My Taco fort. Tepui Kukenam Ruggedized tent and All pro bed rack.
Love this setup

 

My dream setup!

 

Sounds like to got it all figured out. RTT suck don't try it.

 

Very cool, looks fun.

 

I believe they do actually fold open like a book. Some of them at least from what I've seen. Instead of fighting with tent stakes in rocks or near the edge of a cliff, you can pop it open and go right to sleep. No stakes needed to be put in the hard ground.

 

You can't be flooded out with an RTT

 

Here's a few pros and cons for RTTs

https://www.rme4x4.com/showthread.php?70805-Is-a-rooftop-tent-(RTT)-for-me

 

Subbed for the discussion and the fight that's brewing.

 

Awesome, glad you guys started this thread...Looking forward to more pictures!

 

Correct on the sort of like a pop-up tent. Here is a decent video demonstrating an ARB tent. It's a little long because the guy is taking his sweet time and giving tips, but you get the idea. The actual opening is around the 4:40 mark.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTNMLenJaEw

Or a much shorter video for the ones who would rather watch and talk less.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj58hEMPEFA