Some cool campers in this thread. I bought this 07 Vista Cruiser B+/C last month. Its built on a Freightliner 3500 cab/chassis with the MB 2.7 liter diesel. I averaged 16 mpg coming back to Virginia from Florida @ 75 mph. Nothing like being able to wake up to a sunrise on the beach. Small enough to drive into downtown Savannah and park on the riverfront. However I just spent a week camping in Death Valley/Eastern Sierras (not in my camper). One of the guys in our group had a camper top on a 4x4 PU and thats definitely the way to go if you want to go off road without towing a Jeep.

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Hey - I camped in DV in one of those too!

Rented from a private party:
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Another one with a slide out.
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Here are a couple of sites I visit on a regular basis. The Expedition Portal Forum has info on vehicles, preperation, routes, travel logs etc, etc etc. You can spend hours/days here and travel the world. Great build threads and the people are very friendly.

Expedition Portal Forum

If you ever dreamed of driving to Alaska, here is a article for you....
One day I hope to do this.


Plan a Trip to Alaska | Places to Visit in Alaska

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...and another thing, the expeditionportal has a trailer subforum section that is pretty cool. Homebuilt trailers of all shapes and sizes. Some of these guys build some cool zhit....


Expedition Trailers - Expedition Portal

Why? Its massive, won't be very agile, slow, will catch to a of wind... And at the end if it all, you still just have a pickup truck camper...

That's a great link. One of the trips I want to do is East Coast to Alaska and then maybe parking the camper in AZ or Las Vegas for future trips in the West.

I think I saw this here on OT, this retired Lufthansa pilot has been traveling around the world in his G-Wagon : A Merc G Wagen Anyway it seems there are a lot of mostly European trekkers who are doing the earth roving thing. When I was in Utah in December and Death Valley last month I saw quite a few motorhomes and campers that were obviously ferried over from Europe.

Starry night in Death Valley, I think the light glow is from Lone Pine:

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This belongs to a buddy of mine..
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those are rare Byron! of course, you likely already knew that

He also owns one of the Brumos themed buses seen at the Rolex too, course he grew at at Brumos:D

I'll try and get some detailed pix.

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check this out!

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Hunt House Car


Futuristic Hunt Housecar*|*RVNN.TV: Travel, Apps and RV's

video shows the interior, including the stock toaster

ExPo is a pretty special site. There are so many fantastic adventures captured with excellent writing and photography, it's fun just to go live vicariously through others. Some of the trips undertaken by members of that site make my life seem boring indeed.

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My race rig setup. 1992 Lazy Daze 27 foot mid bath, 1968 R50/2 and 1968 Formula Vee. I often contemplate selling the LD and getting a camper/truck combo to have more versatility and not have to bring the motorcycle but the LD is very comfortable at the track and has become a home away from home and gathering spot for me and my buddies. Plus as usual I've got way more in to it than I could sell it for.

Jerry, I'm turning green over here. I was drawn to your rig when seeing a pic earlier. But now with the bike on board, too good!!
How do you get the bike on and off the rack? Have you been racing the F VW for long, Is it the fun group it seems?

Thanks for the dream pic!

Cheers Richard

Santa Rosalia

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I bought a sportbike rack for the trailer hitch that has a receiver on the other end. On and off is a bit tricky. Take the air out of the rear bags, ramps rigged up from the car trailer and carefully roll it on and off. The nice thing about the BMW is that the center of gravity is really low and it gives me transport around town at the track so I don't have to drive the RV around once it is parked. It gets way more attention than the car. The whole setup takes a long time to put together though and you have to be careful where you go. Storage is pain, etc. But the Lazy Daze is the class of the Class C RV category and very comfortable and I got it relatively cheap. Bought it in 2009 for $10k I think and the new ones are the exact same floor plan and cost north of $80k.

I've raced the FV since 2008. Really a fun group to be in and about the cheapest (still not cheap) way to go vintage racing.

Jerry thanks for the detailed response. This is the rig that planted the seed for me. I saw it at the Mitty in Ga. They had towed from Colo or out that way, and seemed to be having fun.

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Not wanting to pry into personal matters. But I am wondering about the costs of racing at this level. Do you do many races a season? Travel to distant races?
How much does beer cost for a week end :-) etc.

Cheers Richard

This is for sale locally, I'm thinking, really hard...
I have always likes these..
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Byron, those GMC motorhomes are sweet! That one has the Torinato FWD engine no?
I have reading about there being some guy there in Fla that does total referb on those rigs. Is this one of his? It looks real nice!

Cheers Richard

when you think about how many campgrounds have paved or good gravel roads to them nowadays, this makes a lot of sense

you often spend hours driving on paved, but curvy roads in the mountains and then camp

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Dana Point

Would love to see inside this one - that's quite something!

There is a collection of stills on Youtube.

On pics on page 2 here.

No worries, happy to share and can take this off line as well. A FV will cost you $6k to $12k for a race ready car. Formula Ford add $5k to $10k and on up from there. In the production car world cost is all over the place. You can probably pick up a well sorted MGB for example in the $20's. One of my buddies is worth a ton of $'s (you'd never know it until you see his race cars) He races everything from a FV to a FF and has a Lotus 23 he campaigns and many others he doesn't including a beautiful Porsche collection. His poor buddies, me included, are harping on him to do Monterey with the Lotus so we can go and crew.

The initial buy in is the least of your worries. Wear items, interval between and cost of engine/trans refresh, etc. need to be factored in. A FV driver can get a season out of a set of tires or even more. 3-4 out of a motor and may never open up a trans in his/her career.

Entry fees generally are $300 to $500 per weekend. Factor in fuel, travel costs, etc. and a weekend can run $750 and up.

We generally have 8 or so "points" race weekends on our club schedule in the PNW from Portland to Seattle to Spokane and up in to BC. The guys/gals with more money and time can stretch their season and travel to other vintage club events in CA or anywhere really. Several of our club members have cars and the means to participate in Monterey and other high end events both in the US and abroad.

I don't have a ton of $ compared to many in our club and should be saving more than I do but this is too much fun and I'll do it as long as I can. The group is tight knit, drops everything to help each other out and many have become some of my best friends.

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Close to us
 

This one is for sale near us. Our driveway actually. It belongs to a friend that hs nowhere to put it at the moment.

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I don't consider those big things camping and just call them RVs.

The ability to drive a small off-road or bad-road vehicle almost anywhere and then camp is my interest.


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