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OfflineMaverick
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My plans for 2008
    #7544396 - 10/21/07 08:06 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

So, after doing this roadtrip I realized that travelling in a Toyota Camry is not the way to go.  You can't sleep in it when there's more than one person with you, and you really can't carry much stuff in it without everything getting torn apart and strewn all over the back seat and throughout the trunk.

I'm now planning on buying a van, like one of those E-250 deisel work vans or something, and converting it into a van for travelling.  I'll put a bed and a little kitchen in it, with an auxilary power supply possibly.  It'll have a bed and the passenger seat will somehow be able to lie completely flat for a bed for someone as well.
On top of all of that, I'd also like to convert the engine to run on both deisel and biodeisel, that way I could travel anywhere and fill up for free by just hitting up every restaurant in town, yay for free fuel!

I can imagine the security level in a van would be higher as well, especially if you get one without windows (or at least big windows) on the sides.  I don't know, sometimes cars feel very insecure.


This will be my project.  Get a van and make it into something for roadtripping. :smile:


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Maverick]
    #7544401 - 10/21/07 08:07 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Or you could learn to make due and get real life experience.


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: AlCapwn]
    #7544432 - 10/21/07 08:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Just get a large passenger car with a front bench seat. I have a 1989 ford crown vic and it gets close to 30mpg on the highway, seats 6 and has one of the largest trunks ever. Relatively cheap too. I paid 1500 for mine it was near mint when I got it.


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: mikebart101]
    #7544623 - 10/21/07 09:03 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I have "real life" experience, I'm bored with that. American dream bullshit, own a big house and a fast car crap.

Anyway, I'm not into big cars, if I'm going to have a large vehicle, a van is more comfortable all around. and can store even more, anyday. Thanks for the suggestion though, but I need something I can have a mini fridge in too for food as well as a stove.


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Maverick]
    #7544667 - 10/21/07 09:15 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

buy an rv?


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: AlCapwn]
    #7544809 - 10/21/07 09:45 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

AlCapwn said:
Or you could learn to make due and get real life experience. [/quote
thats dumb
ur dumb


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Maverick]
    #7544849 - 10/21/07 09:58 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Sounds awesome, I'd like to upgrade to a more roadtrippin friendly vehicle myself. A tent and the open world always works, though.


You have an idea about how much this project will cost?


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: DirtMcgirt]
    #7545993 - 10/22/07 08:08 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

A tent and the open world isn't always possible though, so the van will be more suitable when I can't use the tent.i imagine it'll cost upwards of around 6,000-10,000. Gotta buy the van, convert the engine, and convert the interior.


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Maverick]
    #7546201 - 10/22/07 10:00 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

I realized I need help selecting a van. Anyone have any good suggestions? Or should I just go out and test them out around the area?


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Maverick]
    #7546236 - 10/22/07 10:13 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

http://denver.craigslist.org/car/454886394.html

You can get a cargo van like this, some come with racks on top so you can carry more stuff, and if you get a work van, they are normally stripped out in the back anyway so it would be ready for you to do up the interior how you like. If you are concerned with adverse weather, many of them, like this one, are all wheel drive. You might have to come to Colorado to find most of the AWD ones though. :wink:

An idea of your price range would better help us find you a good vehicle.


Edited by Kinematics (10/22/07 10:13 AM)


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Kinematics]
    #7546316 - 10/22/07 10:39 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

The sierras has plenty of AWD vans, colorado's not the only place that gets adverse weather with adverse terrain. :P If it's not already going to have an interior, then cheap, a few grand maybe.


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Kinematics]
    #7546321 - 10/22/07 10:42 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

hey man, if youre interested i can actually sell you a damn nice diesel bus.





the bus itself runs 2500, and I can convert it with a 2 tank GreaseCar (www.greasecar.com) system for another ~2500 depending on the cost of the kit itself.

Btw I am an authorised installer for that company.

plus i can drive it out to where ever you are, nation wide, fully insured.


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"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."


Edited by Capatalistc nomad (10/22/07 10:43 AM)


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: ZippoZ]
    #7546328 - 10/22/07 10:45 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

its a 1996 with only 150K on it,was fleet maintained by the largest private bus company in the nation, and has been certified every 6 months for safety by the state of illinois.
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"in times of widespread chaos and confusion, it has been the duty of more advanced human beings - artists, scientists, clowns, and philosophers - to create order. In such times as ours however, when there is too much order, too much m management, too much programming and control, it becomes the duty of superior men and women and women to fling their favorite monkey wrenches into the machinery. To relieve the repression of the human spirit, they must sow doubt and disruption"

"People do it every day, they talk to themselves ... they see themselves as they'd like to be, they don't have the courage you have, to just run with it."


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Maverick]
    #7546536 - 10/22/07 11:49 AM (16 years, 3 months ago)

Quote:

DRTMaverick said:
The sierras has plenty of AWD vans, colorado's not the only place that gets adverse weather with adverse terrain. :P If it's not already going to have an interior, then cheap, a few grand maybe.




was just saying. I've been all over the country and haven't seen more AWDs than out here.


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Re: My plans for 2008 [Re: Kinematics]
    #7546602 - 10/22/07 12:05 PM (16 years, 3 months ago)

88 chevy goodtimes van has a bed in the back thats also a seat 2 captins chairs in the back and two up front. 305 motor that wouldn't need much done and u could get it cheap. 1500 or so. and the motor is cheap on parts and has power but gas would be slightly sucky


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