Hello Expo!
I have been a long time reader and decided to post up the build I’m doing on our Troopy Camper which I’m getting ready for a drive to Europe later in the year!
We bought the troopy at the start of this year after having a non-pop top version with a roof top tent.. Now rooftop tents are great until you mount them two meters in the air! So after deciding we’d get a pop top we started hunting! Found a good example of an ex hire camper which had had plenty of mods done including dual spare carrier, hot water heat exchanger under the bonnet, underbody water tanks, all water filters and pumps etc and of course upgraded suspension including airbags! All in all it was a pretty good deal
After a few weekends away in it after we bought it we decided the existing cabinets weren’t going to be suitable (who needs a clothes rack??) for our needs for around 12 months on the road.. So I started hunting for some new cabinets. After reaching out to a few of the major manufacturers in Aus for camper drawers and fit outs all the quotes were coming back at 3k+! So decided to try it out first as I reckoned I could get it built for about 1k. I found a guy on upwork who is a cabinet designer out of Romania who I sent my concept sketch to and he got to work (I’m brushing over the 100,000 measurements I made in the back of the Troopy prior, cause that was rather tedious) designing up the cabinets. All in all it cost a couple of hundred bucks after a few revisions etc. In the mean time I got to work removing the existing cabinets from the troopy and cleaning out the 15 years of gunk that had accrued underneath!
I decided that ply was the right material and went to Allboard out in the eastern suburbs and got them to quote up all the cuts and surprise surprise the price came back a $770! Huzzah! A few weeks later I was driving out of there with a Troopy full of cut plywood sheets!
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I have been a long time reader and decided to post up the build I’m doing on our Troopy Camper which I’m getting ready for a drive to Europe later in the year!
We bought the troopy at the start of this year after having a non-pop top version with a roof top tent.. Now rooftop tents are great until you mount them two meters in the air! So after deciding we’d get a pop top we started hunting! Found a good example of an ex hire camper which had had plenty of mods done including dual spare carrier, hot water heat exchanger under the bonnet, underbody water tanks, all water filters and pumps etc and of course upgraded suspension including airbags! All in all it was a pretty good deal
After a few weekends away in it after we bought it we decided the existing cabinets weren’t going to be suitable (who needs a clothes rack??) for our needs for around 12 months on the road.. So I started hunting for some new cabinets. After reaching out to a few of the major manufacturers in Aus for camper drawers and fit outs all the quotes were coming back at 3k+! So decided to try it out first as I reckoned I could get it built for about 1k. I found a guy on upwork who is a cabinet designer out of Romania who I sent my concept sketch to and he got to work (I’m brushing over the 100,000 measurements I made in the back of the Troopy prior, cause that was rather tedious) designing up the cabinets. All in all it cost a couple of hundred bucks after a few revisions etc. In the mean time I got to work removing the existing cabinets from the troopy and cleaning out the 15 years of gunk that had accrued underneath!
I decided that ply was the right material and went to Allboard out in the eastern suburbs and got them to quote up all the cuts and surprise surprise the price came back a $770! Huzzah! A few weeks later I was driving out of there with a Troopy full of cut plywood sheets!
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