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Well they've advanced a bit and now come with 1.3 petrol or 1.4 diesel engines, so shouldn't be too bad, especially the diesel.
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A 1.4 diesel would be just the job a lot more torque, which is what you want. My experience was 20 years ago! doesn't time fly. My bike at the time had a bigger engine than that van, I had an FJ1200!
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Was chatting with a met of mine who years back had a Unimog camper, and we came up with a couple of ideas to work on.
The basic would be to have some form of "pop-top roof top" tent. The idea would be that like a roof top tent it flipped up and over unolfding to twice the size of the roof top. The difference would be built in and that it'd be accessed from the inside of the 'van, giving effectively a two storey camper. Accessing from the inside would be good for bad weather/security, but it'd mean that downstairs only had to serve as sitting/cooking space and would have full standing head room. Obviously an awning could be dropped from the flipped open top to give a covered "conservatory" section giving even more living space.
So the thought to ponder where, should it flip open front to back or side to side?
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Was chatting with a met of mine who years back had a Unimog camper, and we came up with a couple of ideas to work on.
The basic would be to have some form of "pop-top roof top" tent. The idea would be that like a roof top tent it flipped up and over unolfding to twice the size of the roof top. The difference would be built in and that it'd be accessed from the inside of the 'van, giving effectively a two storey camper. Accessing from the inside would be good for bad weather/security, but it'd mean that downstairs only had to serve as sitting/cooking space and would have full standing head room. Obviously an awning could be dropped from the flipped open top to give a covered "conservatory" section giving even more living space.
So the thought to ponder where, should it flip open front to back or side to side?
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Heres a 2 story camper:
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looks a tad complicated though.....
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Heres a 2 story camper:
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looks a tad complicated though..... 
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Campers generally leave me cold, but Oh My Gosh!
$5,500? Please will somebody buy this, import it and invite me round for a cup of green tea? I will bring Miso soup...
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what an insperation that Jap made camper is. I think its brilliant just goes to show what you can do if you get together and decide what you need. Form and function.
I dont know what its called but Suzuki were displaying a great concept mini truck a while back just like a mini unimog that looked ideal for a conversion.
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Just found it again the concept Suzuki Truck is called the X HEAD, i hope they bring it out.
Now i need to get in touch with those 2 tier camper chaps for a more compact design.
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