DIY Motorhomes and camper vans ·
This site is all about DIY Motorhomes and Camper vans. We have produced it as a service to owners and potential owners of a DIY camper van and for those who are planning a project.
Why have you put together the site?
At Caravanwise we recently started to offer DIY camper van and motorhome insurance and have a need to understand more about this type of vehicle. There is a massive amount of information available on the Internet and it occurred to us that people planning a project or looking for information on DIY camper vans would find a site that brought this information together in one place useful.
There is also a large element of educated self interest. It is in our interests to encourage better, safer and more “professional” DIY completions. We also hope that some people who use this site might also consider obtaining a quotation for insurance from us.
We are not experts on DIY camper vans, at the start of this project we don’t intend to do a conversion ourselves. What we are good at is winkling out information from the far corners of the internet to present to you. Read this site with that in mind, and use it as a starting point to get to sites that are written by enthusiasts and specialist companies that can help you to produce and improve your DIY motorhome.
Mercedes Ambulance ·
Ambulance conversions run the risk of looking just like an ambulance and from my experience of those I’ve seen in the Dales that’s what many of them end up looking like. However this site should be an inspiration to anyone thinking of converting an ambulance.
The site owner, Brian Murphy, shows, through a series of photographs, the unconverted vehicle, the conversion process and the finished van. It just goes to show that, with a bit of imagination, and hard work a really nice camper van can be created from an old ambulance.
Mr Murphy set out to create a camper van with a budget of £1000. He doesn’t tell us if he kept within his budget but by a mixture of judicious scrap yard purchases and simple construction he has preduced what looks like an excellent van. The finished van has a drop down bed and a nice paint job.
So what I was really looking for was a cheap van, with a solid chassis and an aluminium or fibreglass body. Deciding I was wasting my time even starting to look, I decided to console myself with a beer and a browse for cheap kit cars on ebay, and that�s when it happened�
An ambulance. Well serviced, fibreglass body, easy to convert, perfect.
Go take a look you may find it inspirational. Mercedes Ambulance Conversion