I'm starting my quest in building a truck camper. Does anyone know of pictures of the frame such as from the factory or any homemade campers? Thx MM

hi, Rodg here, saw ur question on truck camper plans. i am building a truck camper now from the Glen-L plans. they have a good web site. just google Glen-L truck plans and u will get there web site. i am building the Acalpuco model and i am about 90 percent complete. got all the interior done, have the skin on, waiting on some corner molding and cushions to finish it up. i am retired and i have worked on in almost every day for the last 7 months. i would say that i have a total of $11,000 in it. The biggest expenses was the siding, $1,800 and i bought the Stablelift system for $2,500. Everything else, windows, door, sink, propane tank, stove top, i bought off ebay. well i hope this helps u out, Rodg

sounds great..... do you have any pics to share/? I'm familiar with glen L plans..... I would like to build a camper that has a little more height , 8 foot in length. Framing in steel tubing is easier for me and less expensive for me also.... I would like to skin it in .040 screwless siding...................any ideas? Thx MM

Rodg here, i got a blog site, HTTP://homebuilt-trkcamper.blogspot.com/ ... i have a few pictures so far, trying to get my wife to down load some more. i have the skin on now and am doing the corner molding. i put on a rubber roof also. u mentioned steel contstruction, better use aluminum, or your camper will be 5,000 lbs, even a 1 ton trk couldn't carry it. i figure my camper is going to weigh in around 2,500 lbs. The main thing is weight, u have to keep it down, pare every piece of weight off u can. i used the Glen-L plans for the outside deminsions only, i built my own interior and i built a lot of cabinets, 18 doors in all, 3 drawers. plus i put in a Thetford cassette toilet. i didn't build any restroom walls. my camper is just for me to go fishing with, drag the boat down to the bay and spend a couple of nights in. also on my plans i lowered the front cab over area by 4". the plans are from the 60's when truck cabs were a lot higher than today's trks.

Thanks for the reply...The computer didnt want to display the photos...Try emailing them to moodbomb4@aol............. I noticed the same thing at glen l that the the distance between the cab and camper needed to be lowered... Where do I find corner pieces and exterior trim parts..????? Thx again MM

i used the web site of Glen-L and contacted The Metal Company out of colorado. u have to arrange shipping, i used DHl and it was like $180 for around a 400lb shipment. i rec'd all my siding, corner molding, and rubber roof in one shipment, several tubes and boxes, no damage. i think they are out of alvardo colorado, they have a great web site, download their catalog and it gives u all the profiles of the siding and molding. I figured on 3 week delivery time, had it in my garage in 9days after date of order. so they are fast. i used the 2" with a reverse and used the Pittsburg interlocking system. I will have more photos on my blog site soon. don't use the www on it, just the http://homebuilt-trkcamper.blogspot.com and then a dot com/. for some reason if u enter the whole web site on this it gets eraased, but after blogspot put a .com/ try that and see if it works.

Rodg you did a nice job on the camper, how much weight do you think you added to the camper with all the bracing. I was thinking about using a biscuit joiner for all the brasing. I dont really want to go out and get a new 1" stapler for the framing. I really need to keep my camper light, its going on a superscrew F150 so im looking at around 1200lbs. I just started bidding on doors and windows now