Will do! Thank you, Tiki!
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Now the project at hand is mounting some kind of grey water 'tank'
under the truck. The plan of strapping a 6 gallon water jug beneath the spare tire seems to be more 'gallons for the buck',
The 13' of 2" hose feeding into a 7'x 4" PVC strapped below the floor boards of the cab, was well hidden,and workable, but came up short on capacity, for the effort required.
I know others have routed piping in the basement area, however I am not about to remove that covering at this point.(anxious to quit fixing and start using).
Any creative ideas for beneath truck grey storage? (dodge dually)
Thumbs up.
I´m looking for a grey Water Tank solution too.
my old chevy crew cab srw has no spare tire. I think i will mount someting between the frame and keep it up with straps
??
Chevy Pickup since ´95 (c10, R33, K3500)
Fleetwood Elkhorn, Sportcam, Palomino 1000 sl
Now a Avion 1968 c11 Needs to be restored
I often have people ask me why I have gone to so much trouble to renovate a decades old truck camper instead of just buying a new rig. "Why in the long run, it would be much cheaper!"
I have tried to justifiy all the time and expense logically. I must say I never even convince myself as I am still talking. Then in a contemplative moment I think "I" understood. It may not be y'all's story, but it's mine. I grew up in the sixties. The space race was on. I was never so proud, nor have I been than when the first American set foot on the Moon. It was magical. Those shiny Airstream trailers were a part of the space program. Who could forget the quarantine campers to save us from "space bugs"! Then Avion came to town with the new truck camper. It was a tiny Airstream in a pickup. This was the spaceage in a compact package. Even those magnet doors that popped to the ceiling seemed other worldly. The write ups in Popular Mechanics showed how you go anywhere and see anything with the latest comforts at your fingertips. Oh! how I wanted one. I begged, plotted and dreamed. But it was not to be. Time marched on and other concerns took frontburner. Hell, I even forgot as years past.
Somehow though, I retained this strange attraction to those shiny aluminum campers. I was looking for the ultimate rig to take my kids to see the world. I did my homework, and nothing new had everything I wanted. I wanted something that would last. I had been around the revolving RV mill
and wanted off for good. Googling truck campers, I came across this blog. There were those shiny aluminum campers again. I read it all. Gary, Tiki, D, and the rest, made look easy (too easy, but that's another story). Get an old camper for cheap, and in a couple of weekends I'd have something that would last generations. One problem, I could not find an Avion truck camper anywhere that I could reasonably or even unreasonably get to. I scoured SearchTempest daily for 2 years, until, there it was. It could be had for a song if only I drove 14 hours and could haul it back. I jumped on it. Glad I did, the owner had phone calls begging to pay more. Trees had grown up around her, and it and it took a Herculean effort to extact her. 14 hours and 2 years later, our maiden voyage, "Where no man had gone before!". Then amazingly my elderly mother reminded me of the Avion truck camper I had longed for so long ago and the memories all came flooding back. Oh! the joys of satisfying the inner child!
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CajunAvion...awesome story.....for me it wasn't anything so romantic. I never knew what an Avion was before I came across mine. However it looked different, the price seemed right (I never knew it needed as much work as I had to put into it, but I think i am still ahead) and it was just begging for a loving new home. Now that I have gotten to know her intimately I don't think I would trade it for anything on the market. As I always remind myself...'anyone can buy a new camper, all it takes is money. However it takes someone special (or crazy) to restore, rebuild or just refurbish an old classic.
Now that I may decide to remove my spare tire, Its back to the drawing board, I would't be surprised if I could fit 8 gallons under there.
Yeh Mon!
67avion wrote:
Cajunavion, thats an inspiring story! Great to have you as an Avionista. We'll all get together someday and trade more inspiring stories.
Cajunavion, thats an inspiring story! Great to have you as an Avionista. We'll all get together someday and trade more inspiring stories.
Bam
If you guys come to Germany, i will pay the Beer
1968 C11 wrote:
If you guys come to Germany, i will pay the Beer
If you guys come to Germany, i will pay the Beer
Sounds like a great offer. However, I don't think you know how much beer we can consume;-)
it depends on how many of you guys come over and how long you plan to stay
;-)
* This post was edited 01/30/17 12:35am by 1968 C11 *
I can use the standard .032 aluminum skin or a handsome veneered poly board that's slightly thicker but adequately flexible and waterproof. Or a combo. The veneer stock would probably be less inclined to condense than the aluminum because of temperature transmission properties.
Where does condensation occur? When? How have you been able to prevent or ameliorate it? What might you have done in rebuilding your rig to address the problem? I'm am completely open to suggestions. I gave two Fantastic vents with fans in the ceiling and a wall-mounted propane heater with a fan above it to circulate warm drying air.
Your thoughts greatly appreciated.
Dick