Off grid surf HQ project

Howdy folks, I'm a newbie to the taco world. Was rolling with the VW SYNCRO for a few years but was tired of luggin 100+ pounds of tools and spare parts "just in case", which usually turned into "a case". Plus getting anxiety when I had to drive distance was giving me greys.. So I learned from my mistake and traded for a 2000 2.7 4x4 ext cab. I'm looking to make this into a home away from home while exploring the coast, up the Big Sur fire roads is first on the list. It came with new wheels and tires, newer shocks, rear airbags, and a bull bar which had to go (making a less bulky one myself). I decided the first step was to make it gorilla camping worthy, for those nights you unfortunately find yourself with people around and the POLICE up in your s***.

 

Sorry guys, of course I saw there's sub categories for builds and new folks after I posted this. Here's a pic of the bed I made in the camper though..

 

Welcome

Nice job

 

Sub'd doing something similar right now...just living out of it full time. Are those cardboard boxes?

 

I'd be interested to see pictures of the sleeper camper build process.

 

Haha naw.. 1x2's with 1/4" ply wrapped in canvas.

 

Here the inside of one side box, the dimensions were 70"x15". I mirrored both sides to leave me enough room to fit an engle fridge horizontally in the center at the end of the bed. Fits when end piece 27" x 15" is removed. Sorry no pics of the process. Was done with this before I found this site.. Material fee ran me around 120$.

 

Awesome man. Off to a good start.

 

Very cool and kinda similar to my idea with the removable section. I will be using drawers though.

 

Sweet sub'd for this

 

Cool setup. I've been contemplating a camper bed setup for a while now.

If you make it to Big Sur, give me a holler. I'm up in Santa Cruz and make it down that way quite a bit. Surf too!

 

The inverter, second battery, and fridge are ready to go.

 

I attached the inverter with Velcro.... We will see how it lasts, but if it works then I save drilling holes.