Hello!
Here are a few photo’s of our conversion of our Citroen Dispatch 1.9D 1999. Some might call it a day van, we look on it as a base vehicle to carry our camping gear,giving us the flexibility of a van for everyday life, but able to sleep inside ‘when needs must
So all our gear, food, clothes etc are carried in custom made boxes that stack in door sliding recesses and on the captains seats(when facing rearwards) this leaves a space approx 6’x 3’4″ plenty if you still like to ‘snuggle up’ most campers do, even if it’s only to keep warm!
A custom made roof rack holds the rest of our gear, four 5 Litre fuel cans, inflatable canoe, tool box and spare parts, sand tracks, and a leisure battery, topped up by a 60 watt roof mounted Solar panel mainly for when parked up, otherwise charged from vehicle while on the move.
As our next big expedition is to Australia we have fitted a ‘Roo Bar’! From our previous experiences, an essential item in the outback, once those ‘Big Boomers’ decide to cross the road, they cross!
So that’s got things under way we will endeavour to keep up with more photo’s of the finished project before we depart in August. regards Bill & Penny
your side tent
I am interested in your side Tent…can you tell me the brand name & where you purchased it & its dimensions?? How is it attached to your camper please. I live in Australia & would like to purchase one?
Any info would be greatly appreciated
Just some of our photo’s!
As you will notice the van inside is empty, no fixtures and fittings we intend to keep it this way as we shall spend most of our time camping in the side awning, all gear packed in boxes, this way the floor of the van will always be available for sleeping, also it means we can still use the space for carrying things,also ‘rubbish to the tip!
Think I may have got this comment in the wrong place, but I guess you get our drift!
Bill
Roo Bar!
An essential item in Australia, when the big ‘Boomers’ decide to cross the road they cross! Even a bar dosn’t stop the damage but it helps!
We picked the bar up on ebay for £10.00, it took a lot of thinking time and work but a good result in the end.
The most important task is deciding where the fixings to the chassis will be, we have a friendly local garage who let us use their car lift and gave advice as to good fixing points, all worked out fine.
Bill