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Originally Posted by freebeard
I, for one, look forward to that. What would it take to get it back on the road? An whole chassis transplant?
I give up on Google books, but I did glimpse the table of contents to Shelter (Jay Baldwin, Shelter Publications, 1973). In the pages 88-93 in a section called Nomadic [something] should be the camper my friend built, to my design, in the 1970s. It had a conventional wooden flatbed with curved outer edges and a lift-off camper shell. It was an egg shape with a flat rear and a flat front notched for the truck cab. The bubble front window was narrower than the truck windshield.
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I don't think it's worth the effort to finish.With a weak slant six and all the mods I'd done she peaked at 21.5 mpg @ 65 mph,which is 3.5 mpg worse than the T-100 'naked'.
A long block is $1,400 and even with a fresh engine I'm not confident that she'd do much better than low 20s.
A spare T-100 bed for experimentation is $800 minimum.That's not going to happen.
If I didn't have to drive the truck I could do a wood-based bed/cover,but the Insight's been in the shop for going on 7-weeks now,so not only am I losing the use of the car,I'm spending more on fuel,and can't do anything significant to the truck unless I want to walk the 12-mile round trip to town.
September is looming ahead and all it does here is rain and storm.
It's almost too much fun.
Camera batteries are dead.I'll pick some up after awhile.Maybe I can have a photo by Saturday to share.