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About a year and a half ago a friend of mine suggested a late October, milti day off roading and camping trip in central Utah. I like camping in tents and sitting around a fire at night as well as anybody but not so much in cold temperatures. Something about dragging myself out of a sleeping bag into the cold every morning for 7 - 10 days just didn't seem that appealing. Since the route we were going to follow wasn't particularly trecherous I started thinking about a light, high angle off road tent trailer of some kind complete with a nice bed and an even nicer heater. The basic plan was teardrop syle trailer with a bed on one end and a storage space on the other.
I wanted something with a little character true to the Bronco obsession that I could build out of spare parts and tubs I have been collecting over the years for various projects. I went to work thinking about how to join the back halves of a couple of parts tubs together into something that reasonably fit the idea. I started gathering parts and even fabbed up the frame last fall before the whole trip plan fell apart. We decided to reschedule the trip for this year and I spent a little time between my other project needs working on the camper.
The trip got rescheduled for this September and the push was on to finish the camper a couple of weeks ago so I talked my son into helping me finish it instead of working on his bronco during the last couple of weeks of his summer visit with me. This is a quick build thread showing how the design changed as time went buy and how it turned out. The pictures span from last fall to yesterday.
I wanted something with a little character true to the Bronco obsession that I could build out of spare parts and tubs I have been collecting over the years for various projects. I went to work thinking about how to join the back halves of a couple of parts tubs together into something that reasonably fit the idea. I started gathering parts and even fabbed up the frame last fall before the whole trip plan fell apart. We decided to reschedule the trip for this year and I spent a little time between my other project needs working on the camper.
The trip got rescheduled for this September and the push was on to finish the camper a couple of weeks ago so I talked my son into helping me finish it instead of working on his bronco during the last couple of weeks of his summer visit with me. This is a quick build thread showing how the design changed as time went buy and how it turned out. The pictures span from last fall to yesterday.
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