I really like my 90 CSW but it has one big drawback in that you can't sleep in it and cook and do the things you need to do on regular weekend trips to the lakes. It occured to me you could in a 110 hard top - possibly a sleeping platform down one side and cooker, sink, etc. on the other. Any advice on Land Rovers as campers?
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You can sleep in a 90 (as long as you're not too tall) by running a hammock from the mounting for the rear view mirror to just above the rear door. Not to comfy mind.
There was a guy in one of the magazines a good fiew months ago had a dormobile kitchen in his 90.
Anyway, I'm converting Edith to a camper / expedition 90 at the moment and plan on having cooking facilities and cupboards, a sink and shelving down one side of the rear (with no window), and a bench on the opposite wheel arch with a window behind it and a fold down bed platform inside.
For extra legroom when sleeping, I've got a hinged upper and lower tailgate to replace the back door of the hardtop, and with the upper tailgate (from a series 2) up, and a cunning velcro or pop studded bit of canvas between the two tailgate parts, I get an extra foot and a half - so ample space.
As the job proceeds I'll post pictures. As it Is my new GALV chassis only arrived this morning, so a long way to go yet!
There was a guy in one of the magazines a good fiew months ago had a dormobile kitchen in his 90.
Anyway, I'm converting Edith to a camper / expedition 90 at the moment and plan on having cooking facilities and cupboards, a sink and shelving down one side of the rear (with no window), and a bench on the opposite wheel arch with a window behind it and a fold down bed platform inside.
For extra legroom when sleeping, I've got a hinged upper and lower tailgate to replace the back door of the hardtop, and with the upper tailgate (from a series 2) up, and a cunning velcro or pop studded bit of canvas between the two tailgate parts, I get an extra foot and a half - so ample space.
As the job proceeds I'll post pictures. As it Is my new GALV chassis only arrived this morning, so a long way to go yet!
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Thanks for this. I read the article you mention but, if I read it right, it would mean the Landy would really be just for the expeditions; that is, you wouldn't be able to get passengers in as the seats would have been removed. Since we use our 7 seater all the time for ferrying the kids and their friends around, it wouldn't be feasible to take all the seats out.
Your project sounds very interesting - please do send pictures as it happens.
Your project sounds very interesting - please do send pictures as it happens.
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For temporary camping trips a caravan, roof tent or just a big tent is probably best. but if you want to use the landy then a rear awning with a twin burner cooker on an hinged shelf attached to the back door with a Plywood platform that fits across the seats and extends in to the front cab area when needed would be the way to go. It would need to fold up when not in use but I'm sure you could devise something if you set your mind to it.
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Hey - I have a columbus roof tent on my 90 and keep a box fixed to the inside of the rear door for a basic kitchen with cooker, also an awening on the side. It takes less then 5 mins to be set up with beer in hand. It cost a bit but i have seen all the stuff at seperate time on ebay. Have a butchers at my photo's. Happy camping.
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Go to the gallery option at the top of the screen and choose defender gallery. My pics are the first few on there. I have used a few different tents and have played around with different rigs for camping including disco, 110 Dbl cab. I settled on the 90 and trailer as the most usable and best looking.
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so you travel light then anthony!
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Although that motto didn't relly ring true recently on the M4???
Although that motto didn't relly ring true recently on the M4???
I spoke to a company today who thought they could do a 'demountable' for the 90 truckcab. That has to be a good idea , if its possible? Drive to where you want to go. Leave it on if your moving on . unclamp it and park it up if your not and your left with a practical motor for those shopping days that the missus drags me on when there's an new M&S on offer, or the odd spot of greenlaning plus a warm dry berth where she can't moan about the cold.
Leave it in a caravan storage place when your not using it. Stick an ivor Williams jobbie or ragtop on for the dogs for the rest of the year.
They said they could make them for crewcabs and 110 truckcabs as well. I've got to take a look or I'm going to be left with a tax exempt VW camper and the Hippo.
Anyone been to the Barge Inn in Honey Street, great pub, interesting people, right up mings street I think.
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Leave it in a caravan storage place when your not using it. Stick an ivor Williams jobbie or ragtop on for the dogs for the rest of the year.
They said they could make them for crewcabs and 110 truckcabs as well. I've got to take a look or I'm going to be left with a tax exempt VW camper and the Hippo.
Anyone been to the Barge Inn in Honey Street, great pub, interesting people, right up mings street I think.
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I'd be nervous having the height and weight, with the required rear overhang to be useable on a short wheelbase - it has to lead to a figity scarey drive? And as for off-roading or an expedition - wouldn't fancy it much!
Saying that saw a fantastic 110 demountable GRP camper in Menorca - from the flags on it, it had been all over the world!
Saying that saw a fantastic 110 demountable GRP camper in Menorca - from the flags on it, it had been all over the world!
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Years ago, I saw a S3 SWB with a 5th wheel mounted on the chassis and a ferkin great semi-trailer caravan about 25ft long.
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Yup there's a guy Near Caenarvon Has got one of those. looks really cooooooool..
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I have a 90 and have been pondering how to rig it for the ocasional night away from home when a tent is too much of a fag, I have read an article in a boat mag about a chap who has rigged his GP 14 (14foot long sailing dingy) with a bed using a slatted bed base from IKEA, This is a lot of wooden slats linked with webbing so it rolls up fairly small, I recon you could put a couple of supports running from the dash to the mid bulkhead to the tail, creating a single bed down one side of the car, probably, it probably needs a bit more thought but it is an idea, the big downside is going into IKEA.
We use scaffold planks sawn to suit the width, these take less than a minute to put in/take out and you get the benifit of gaining a nice storage area under the planks - and then a length of carpet gets rolled over it - or for when we are too lazy to bung the planks in a fold up tent that erects in 30 seconds.
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I'd be nervous having the height and weight, with the required rear overhang to be useable on a short wheelbase - it has to lead to a figity scarey drive? And as for off-roading or an expedition - wouldn't fancy it much!
Artica Carcamper in crosswinds would be a challenge!
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you should consider making your own exped trailer from a sankey. Then you can take it or leave it depending on what you want to do. it would be alot cheaper and you can match it to the vehicle colour - whats cooler than that?lol.
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