Thread: Show us your 4WD truck.

Originally Posted by spudboy

This "4x4 Trucks" section has got off to a big start!

Here's a few photos of my beast and a few stats.

This is how it started, with a basic MAN 290HP dual cab 4x4 chassis:



So far, it has taken about 2 years work to get it to its current stage, where the canopy is 75% finished and it is quite usable as a camper. All the essentials have been finished, so it has:

425L of water on board, which is filtered and pumped to the inside cabin (also with an outside hot/cold shower)
a gas/electric hot water service
a kitchen, with running water, a microwave, a sink, a fridge and a gas cooktop
a bathroom with a composting toilet and a 'recycling' shower
a full sized permanent bed, with a TV/DVD player at the foot of the bed
plenty of cupboards inside
plenty of external storage space for 'dirty' stuff, like campfire things, a generator, and so on.

Replacing the standard skinny tyres with Super Singles, and adding the shell of the canopy got it to this:



Inside the canopy, I have built a kitchen area, with under-bench Ikea cupboards and a 12v/240v fridge freezer:





A full sized permanent bed:



There is a separate toilet/shower area, with a composting toilet that uses no water or chemicals (just Peat Moss):



Outside, there are storage bins for the gas cylinders and other assorted items that get dirty when camping that don't need to come inside, like a firewood, billies, tools, tow-ropes and so on:



It is a pretty big beast of a thing. Here's me standing in front of it to give you an idea of the scale of things:



It's been away on a number of trips so far, down to the beach and up to the Flinders Ranges, where it was extremely impressive over corrugated roads. Average fuel consumption over about 3000 varied Kms is 25L/100Km:




If you want pages and pages of detail on how it got built, try here: MAN Truck Blog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8JqjR6-YZA

What an awesome build there dude very impressive i like a lot......

Originally Posted by Mick_Marsh

I've got a Mk3. Where did yous end up?

Mick, I sold it to a bloke off Mt Dandenong Tourist Road, Kalorama. about 28 years ago.