Our Demountable

Hi Bookend,

I love Demountables but could not afford one in the 1980 and bought a 2.8 Jaguar XJ6 as it had a long boot and with a roof chop to the back of the front seats it would be great so welded up the back doors and started cutting but I had just set up my own Business at the time so it just sat in the Garage and there was not time to work on it at all on top of that the XJ6 had displaced my 250 V8 Daimler to the drive and as busness was good I bought a late 4.2 XJ6 and moved house four years later and Scraped them all,what a waste.
I still dream about another project, maybe one day.

Snowbirds.



Bookend said:
Not a van or motorhome but does the job.





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Main thing is, it does the job. Was that last photo taken on Scarborough seafront?
 
Yes it was on the front at Scarborough the camp site was at Scalby first trip out to test it.
 
Looks great , I used to have a Mazda pick up years ago and always wanted one of the camping bodies for it.
Do you have any pictures of the inside.
 
That looks superb, realy well finished, 1st class. More in it & more room than I imagined.
Best of both worlds with them, 2 motors in one.
I used to have the old B1800 Mazda pick ups years ago & always wanted one of the demountables.
Thanks for putting the pics up.
 
It is all self contained for use on or off the grid it's great for two but is a bit of a squeeze for four and the Dog!!

We have a caravan for longer trips but find this concept ideal for long weekends where the caravan is too much hassle.
 
It's spot on, is what it is. I like it.
My van has pobably the same or smaller floor area, but when we are away we are realy only in it to eat & sleep so they do the job.
 
Hi,

I like the idea of a demountable but have a question, what`s the road handling like? Is it very top heavy?

David
 
I have fitted Air bags to the rear suspension which improve the drive a lot. Without them there is a lot of body roll but nothing to worry about once you get use to it.
 
I fitted a tracker to a bimobile on a Nissan navara cab cost 60,000 euros new that did include the navara though
 
How does that one rate for parking in a non MH parking zone? Is it a pickup carrying a load? or a pickup the reversed too hard to hitch his caravan? or a MH that can leave the body on the parking space with no number plate, like a skip?
I personally would prefer a long bed pickup and more space in the box, I have a friend who had a baby Honda 800cc pickup with a box on it like that but smaller. He got rid of it as it did 35mph and 20 mpg maximum on both counts. He got a TATA pickup and a box for that but not much better.
 
Demountable - another

Our demountable an EC6L on a Nissan Navara - we lived in it for 15 months wild camping from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego. A good trip.

Camp b4 Cantwell_Denali Hwy_AK_2.jpg
Denali Highway Alaska

Alaska - camped on top of pipeline mile 27 glacier.jpg
Illegally camped on top of main oil pipeline Alaska (unwittingly so)

Ecuador - Chimborazo dawn truck 1.jpg
15,000 feet on Volcan Chimborazo

Chile - ARM & truck at Laguna Azul.jpg
Patagonia - Torres del Paine
 
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