Thread: to camper or not...

Practical Motorhome Doubleback VW Camper review - YouTube

How about a slide out camper and put the pop top in the back half so you don't have to cut the P38 roof, similar to this.

@roverlord, fascinating idea! Not sure how that would work since the interior space of the standard range rover is not that big and the tailgate would prevent a pop-up construction but it is worth looking into. I think though that things are getting complicated real quick

In all honesty though, throughout my years dreaming of travel I have bounced from a honda accord aerodeck (because they had that small glassed roof area in the back for looking at stars) when I still naively thought that would work, moving up to a civic shuttle (honda fan, can you tell?!) because it had "4wd" to a mercedes (pre sprinter) van and now over to a proper 4wd. Oh, I thought about backpacking for a short while and I pretty much written of motorbikes.

As some of my previous discussions here on AULRO may have given away, it's not easy to find / create / build a vehicle that will work on all continents and ticks as many boxes as possible on your wish list. Since I like greenlaning and going of the beaten track a lot, a true 4bee is pretty much a must. Not because of the ground clearance and proper 4WD perse, but a box van or camper would simply start to become to big (and fragile). Also, buidling a vehicle per continent is not within my budget I should think.

I'll look more into the camper conversion idea for now, but if you think putting a saw to a new vehicle is scary, try doing it to a 20+ year old special vehicle like an autobiography P38 since you know they are not made anymore...

Cheers,
-P