My girlfriend and I are looking at going travelling round the UK for a fair while (i.e. longer than a few months) and like the idea of fitting out an old truck (maybe old military 6x6 such as a praga v3s) with a bed and other general things you'd find in a caravan. We were thinking of towing a trailer behind us to have as another room/more storage space, not a trailer exactly, more of a caravan but without any of the internals. I was thinking something like this:




Cabin-wise that'd be perfect but those wheels don't look too good for being towed around at 40mph, maybe okay for the traction engines they were used with.

Basically if you had to build/buy a caravan/shed on wheels that looked like that, would you build it from scratch? Take an old van like in the above pic and fit new axles with wheels/tyres more suited to the road? Take something like a caravan chassis and build up the wooden structure from there? Are there available alternatives such agricultural trailers that are similar or could be modified?

Thanks for any ideas/info ^__^

Sounds too much like hard work to me. If you don't want to just get a normal caravan or camper van, what about a medium sized flat bed truck and put a biggish caravan body on top?

how about

UNIMOG

Some of the utilities use Unimogs (they are fab) - Specialist auctions would be your route...

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Originally posted by Humbug
Sounds too much like hard work to me.

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One of my brothers ex-wife's cousins did something similar in Oz (being an ozzie).

Bought an old coach, ripped out most of the interior, fitted out sleeping area/sitting area and somewhere to store a small m/c and set off. Paid for the trip doing gigs around Australia.

Took him four years

ATB

Simon

my uncle makes proper gypsy caravans from scratch - they are a work of art, he is highly skilled and it still takes him months to make one.

if you have the time then go for it.

if not then why not get a retro caravan?

Get a BV203.

Also, get some ear defenders while you're at it