Thread 28596286

it's not illegal to daily driver a motorhome

But it's a bit inconvenient unless your motorhome is a van conversion because it's bigger than the cars everything is designed around.

t. motorhome dailying chad

>>28596293
What size of motorhome do you think is the threshold that it becomes too large to be convenient?

mmm yes i like 6mpg and owning an asset that depriciates like toilet paper but also stinking it up beyond repair by dailying it

>>28596693
If it's bigger than a large van.

>>28596798
I lust for a mercedes sprinter or ford transit converted RV

This is basically driving a van. NBD

Where there is a will there is a way.

>>28596286 (OP)
>>28596693
When I was longhaul OTR my bobtail semi truck was my daily driver, because the company paid for the fuel lmao

That thing was taller than an RV (13'6) and as long as a van conversion

>>28596835
Brave and valid

>>28596835
>Trans Van
lmao

>>28596835
And this is basically driving a truck.
(which are cooler than vans and get more vagina)

>>28597066
Rarely see people with campers that small though. 90% of the time they look more like this.

>>28597066
Vans will get you a lot more pussy than any truck thanks to all the van life stuff on social media.

>>28597096
The frame bending in half is due to crash regs. Trucks have the issue of having the bed slam into the cab at high speed crashes and causing secondary crash injuries, so automakers addressed it by engineering a failure point so that the two are separated by forcing them to pivot.

It's a compromise primarily borne of using work trucks as commuter cars.

Top 5 motorhomes with the most aura.

#5 Airstream Argosy

>>28596286 (OP)
GMC Motorhomes are so fucking cool, mostly because of the Toronado driveline. I never knew they only made like 10,000 and change of them.

>>28596286 (OP)
>mogs ur daily
nothin personnel

>>28599305
>I never knew they only made like 10,000 and change of them.
The company that they based the initial design off, Revcon, kept making them for several more years afterwards. However, I think there are still less Revcons around than GMCs.
They made some Revcons that were longer than any of the GMC models. Up to 34' I think.

>>28599344
look at all that wasted length and space

>>28599351
>has 4 rear wheels
>is fwd
but y?

>>28599352
your mom didn't think it was wasted length

>>28599352
yeh
fifth wheels are alot easier to back up with, however im.o that one is not long enough to justify it. just get a truck camper.

>>28599358
The ultimate experience is to just git gud and have a vehicle that is in the right sweet spot to be drive-able anywhere. Somewhere around the 26' to 34' length. That's when you're really motorhomin' for real.

I don't even want a RV to sleep in or go camping. The appeal to me is being able to drive like 2-3 hours away to visit friends and have a little apartment they can come out to visit me inside where we play video games without me having to fuck around with their home set-up or drag shit in to set up on their kitchen table. Like a mobile living room I can park in the drive-way and have everything set-up ready to go the second I get there. Or they can meet me half-way and make the drive a lot shorter for me while also getting out of the house for them.

>>28599344
That's really cool.

>>28599363
I do camp, however for me the appeal is equally split with the idea of it being an emergency backup home, for fleeing disaster or other unforeseen events.
My previous home was lost to a forest fire.

>>28596286 (OP)
>>28596700
Lol. Its a valiant effort at not living on the streets but youre actually in the street. You tell people that you are staying flexible and not tied down because you can chase those opportunities, that never pan out. Too strapped for cash keeping your beast running and street legal to leave the local area that you become a neighborhood fixture in the end

>>28596835
Good god. This is 1979.

>>28599376
>full-timing
lmao

#4

Vogue Prima Vista

>>28597066
Sorry, at no point is a truck cooler than a van. Trucks, real trucks, are utilitarian. They pick up cool points for care free bopping down the back roads, or up to no good having parties with the tailgate down. Not that pavement princess bullshit. Vans on the other hand are built to be cool, infinitely customizable to the owner's personality. They're at their best not moving at all. Nobody puts wall to wall carpet in a vehicle for practicality. It's creating an atmosphere. It's actually impossible to be upset driving a van. Take the vanpill and you'll never not have one again. Keep the truck; it's great for moving lumber or the deer you shot, but you'll wish you were driving your van.

>>28596286 (OP)
these class of campers are increasing in popularity here, they will fit in most city parking lots, can be daily driven/carry a load from ikea and since we dont have any laws against camping in a parking lot you can park right outside a restaurant, eat and drink yourself stumbling drunk then sleep it off right there and drive off the next day.

>>28596835
Wonder how many hairy nasty gangbangs happened in the back of that pussy wagon.

>>28599473
Some day friend, someday

>>28596286 (OP)
True. But it's stupid.
>depreciates to nearly worthless within 10 years of being new
>generally built like shit, prone to leaking and mold
>abysmal fuel economy
>difficult to work on due to the engine being buried, suspension being under a big heavy chassis

A camper trailer and a pickup is a far better option.

>>28599473
>Wtf I'm vanpilled now

>>28599473
This image stinks of cigarette smoke

>>28600323
just be rich

>>28596835
YWNBAMH

>>28600345
Welcome home anon. Please see the receptionist for your complimentary wood trim and lady hitchhiker blowjob.

>>28600372
Being rich doesn't make wasting money smart. That's NFL player logic.
>fuck it I'm rich
>dies broke

>>28601777
>Being rich doesn't make wasting money smart. That's NFL owner logic.
Ftfy...
Nicre trips btw

>on a road trip
>out in Idaho
>stop by a lake to take a break
>see some old couple in a winnebago revel
>looks pretty sleek and sweet
>kind of get an eye of the inside while they were going in and out of it
>looks honestly pretty nice to cruise and sleep in
>get back to my car after relaxing
>google up the revel just to see how much it is
>$250k starting
like buying a fucking house man

>>28599353
Maybe they didn't want it to have a 15 foot long driveshaft

>>28599353
Too much weight for a single rear axle.

>>28602227
If they're old they're likely snowbirds and already have a house they live in during the summer. For $250k a class C or a small class A and a towed vehicle would make a fuck of a lot more sense. That much for a Sprinter or a Promaster with a nice interior seems a little ridiculous. Sure it's easy to live with and can sort of go off road but that's some pretty bad value.

>>28599344
>a fucking 4 cylinder
Yeah it's a Toyota engine, but a fucking 4 cylinder is hauling all that ass, my god.

>>28602227
Just like any other vehicle the new price is a sucker buy.

>>28599486
Amazing. Gotta hand it to boomers, this is how you min/max retirement. Fuck these ugly goddamn things
>>28599415
>>28599351
>>28599281

>>28602931
never change, Bjørn

#3 Bluebird Wanderlodge.

>>28604288
>driven by some 80 year old man who can't even spell CDL
nothing personnel, left lane

my boomer father in law asked me to research about the new 'tesla motorhome' you'd need to sign up for one and pay 200€ upfront. Told him it's an cheap ai scam right away. Atleast he isn't gullible and asked me to do research for him if it's either real or fake and gay. 3 minutes of research revealed the later.

cheap ai ads on facebook are the boomers greatest bane it seems lmao. nigerian prince on steroids

#2 GMC Conversion Van

>>28602931
im traveling tradie, and at my current airbnb i started talking to some late 60 ish year old dude with a camper van, i thought it was another guest. turns out he was the previous owner of the place, he just handed it down to his son and bought a camper because he too was traveling tradie and had no need for a full time home now that he kicked out his wife and his kids was grown up. as long as his son kept a room available for him he didnt care, most of his carreer he had lived on site anyway.
80k ford transit 4x4 camper and his job was restoration/historical stone masonry.
if he fell for the bigger is better meme he could never afford it, 80k is in reach for most. im gonna become him soon.

>>28599486
They also have a huge advantage compared to some fiberglass monstrosity. They're waterproof because it's the van shell with a couple extra windows.

>>28599473
Based. Also, out of all the cars I've had. Vans have been the only cars that women come and talk to me about. And try to invite themselves onto a ride to go camping.

>>28596286 (OP)
>house/apartment rent is a scam, taking 1,000's or 10,000$ a month from you forever.
>van (when parked as a home) is FREE
>FREE
(just park in good open secure spots, maybe near hospital or something.)
Sometimes I wonder why people don't care about freedom.

>>28596835
>trans van playing wagon’s sports

How to motorhome correctly:

-no full-timing. always have a regular home. full-timing is for weirdos and crazy people.
-never compromise with a tow vehicle or runabout vehicle other than a bicycle. If you can't drive the motorhome to where you want to go then you need to either
a. git gud
b. you don't need to go there that badly right now anyway
-camper trailers are for people who can't git gud or don't want to commit. Go big or go home.

-you don't monetize your motorhoming. YOU DON'T MONETIZE YOUR MOTORHOMING. YOU ARE ON VACATION. VA-CA-TION. Unless you're at work doing something unrelated to RVs like working on scientific research in the field or what-have-you, then you're really cool.

I took the motorhome pill and live in this thing while working full time at a warehouse. I’m too cheap to pay rent and just stay in the parking lot after work unless I have plans. I’m always on time for my shift, and wake up 15 minutes before work. There’s rust on the frame, I need to try and treat it if possible.

>>28609294
so what's your monthly expense vs an apartment?

>>28609315
I spend about 500 a month in gas to putter around town. My insurance is 81 bucks a month. Along with money saved for maintenance and registration, I would say it’s about a grand a month.

>>28609294
I used to have a roadtrek. Mine was a dodge though. Really not too bad to live in especially if you enjoy lounging in bed on a laptop.

>>28609168
How to motor home correctly:
Full time with remote work

>>28610442
>How to motor home correctly:
>Full time (minus winter), on welfare and parked at your parents house most the time so you can enjoy regular shit and shower.

>>28602495
You can make a 4cl move a cargo ship

>>28610589
Honestly 3cyl is all you need son, and it results in a boost to your eco.

>>28596854
The real answer is to not get a motorhome but instead get a semi with an extended frame and apartment sleeper mounted on the frame instead of a fifthwheel.

>>28610678
Too hard to park at Walmart®

>>28610678
ok... that is a motorhome. Without the hitch it's not a semi. Semi means half a truck

>>28610786
>>28610678
they do however sell extended semis with bathrooms and kitchen

>>28610602
Engine design peaked at the single cylinder

>>28610494
>regular shit and shower.
Isn't being able to have that the entire reason for a motorhome? I mean you can sit, sleep and even install a somewhat functional kitchen in a regular car, but for those two you need decent height and water supply, heating and drainage/storage.

>>28611492
RV toilets are not comfy, the bowl is too smoll. your dick gets mushed against the front and your shit gets smeared down the backand then falls forward onto your dick. Dealing with a black tank is also gross.
As for the shower, it is also too smoll,ive never been in one of suitable size for a grown man to use. (though i am also quiet tall, 6' 4")

>>28611533
To add;
Despite being in and out of rv;s my whole life (my father made his career out of them) i have only actually had a handful of showers in them. issue being that a shower uses too much water to be having them without hookups.

>>28611533
>>28611539
Thanks. Never tried RVs, thought of them like land yachts since there's a significant overlap between them in interior design and equipment, and actual sailboat bathrooms (about 35-50 feet) are surprisingly kind of okay.

>>28611613
I hear on the tele box years ago, that Vin Diesel hated rv toilets so much, that he spent 100k on a custom one to eat his massive muscle shits.

I often daydream of a skoolie and one of my design ideologies is no bathroom at all on the bus. It's meant entirely for driving to places with public restrooms. Maybe no kitchen either, and thus no water or black tanks. Just a big metal tent.

>>28611868
>no bathroom
>no kitchen
>no water (...) tanks
>just a big metal tent
So... what you want is just a stock schoolbus that hasnt been converted into rv?

>>28596286 (OP)
But it would be kind of a pain in the ass

>>28611882
My thinking is to buy a schoolbus, remove the seats, build in a bedroom and living room area, and use battery banks and gadgets for my convenience needs. This isn't for full-timing. This is a weekend camper.
Also I could still use things like a coleman stove or yeti cooler.

>>28611906
I think your should atleast have a sink with water, for washing hands, or dishes.
Otherwise you will die of dysentery.

>>28611910
>I think your should atleast have a sink with water, for washing hands
That's what the public restroom is for.
>dishes
I'd plan on using as few as possible, instead using disposable dishes, but it's a good point to think about.

>>28611914
You never feel the need to wash your hands between public rest stop visits?
Are you and indian, by chance?

>>28606419
Interesting, that's the same configuration my Chevy van has in terms of the headlights and front blinkers, I never knew they also did that on some of the GMCs.
The grille with blinker lights mounted inside is also impossible to find, sadly :(

>>28611926
I do, and I use the public restroom of whatever place I happen to be at to wash them.
In this case it would be the public restroom of a campground.

>>28607065
It's the opposite for me, nobody cares about my old conversion van with new paint but my much less nice looking similarly old crown victoria has gotten a few compliments

>>28611941
Ah, i get it now.
You only want to camp at sites with utilities provided.
A foreign concept to me, as i have been camping hundreds of times in my life, but only once or twice at sites with ultilities (other than a basic hole-in-the ground outhouse)

I want to make a 4-season camper suitible for fulltime boondicking.

>>28611941
Are you in Europe or somthing, by chance?
Im in Canada and very very few campgrounds have full bathrooms.

>>28611958
USA
Every national park and almost every state park has at least one campground with public restrooms.
>Im in Canada and very very few campgrounds have full bathrooms.
I don't think that's accurate.

>>28611967
>I don't think that's accurate.
I probably have that impression because we have always gone a ways out to camp.
Probably a different story if you enjoy camping in/near the city, for whatever reason.
The restroom would need to be heated in order to avoid having the plumbing burst, much of the year.

>>28599353
Motor-homes should be either FWD or RR layout.
>>28599363
Their HOA will fine them if you park it by their house.
>>28597096
>>28597103
>frame designed to be pushed down
>akshually let's pull it up instead!
>>28596286 (OP)
These are fairly affordable, I checked a couple of them out when buying RV. I just know it would've been yet another project car

>>28611967
Many of our public restrooms have been shutdown or destroyed by nomads.

>>28611982
shut up retard

>>28611982
>nomads
Thats a funny way of spelling indians.

>>28611979
>Their HOA will fine them if you park it by their house.
Overnight maybe, but not if I'm only there a few hours.

>>28611994
>drive like 2-3 hours each way
>only stay for 2 hours max to avoid getting towed
Enjoy your fuel bills.

>>28611999
I will, thanks.

>>28612176
That's just what boomers do when they want to have anonymous sex without needing to be insanely rich.

>>28612176
Camping has many meanings. But yes, modern camping is often more like a country club. It's a soft-gated community.

>>28612338
Ehhh that sounds more like euro camping. In North America most actual campgrounds are pretty basic and don't even have electrical, water or sewage hookups most of the time. Free camping is pretty popular also. You just set up on a random piece of crown land or BLM land.

>>28612353
>In North America most actual campgrounds are pretty basic and don't even have electrical, water or sewage hookups most of the time. Free camping is pretty popular also.
For every person camping on those, there are ten people camping in a national or state campground with a public bathroom nearby, electrical hookups, and the main demographic is upper-middle class white boomers who sit around in lawn chairs telling war stories from their careers and/or their latest "projects".

When I drive down the roads here in rural KY I see a camper in every fourth backyard. Those people are not going anywhere to "rough it". They're going out to the campgrounds (and I use this term broadly) to socialize.

>>28612338
>Camping has many meanings
Yeh, i guess if you want to go to the loosest possible definition: Camping is just legal squatting.

>>28596839
Cute Lil' Rascal

>>28597066
That's gonna get you murdered by a Sasquatch

>>28597096
Kek. These are the type of people with no type of "gut-insinct" or commense.
Like who the fuck would combine these two things even in their imagination without getting some kind of natural sense of a warning, or inner voice to say something like, " nah that's a stupid fucking idea"

>>28599281
Marlboro Man: the retirement years

Honorable mentions

#5 Airstream Classic 345

This is the cheapest motorhome you can buy brand new today, the 2025 Forest River Sunseeker Le 2350F. It's less than 80k.

>>28613013
It's a piece of shit.

>>28613995
All "square wooden box" RVs are dangerous and should be avoided.

>>28599473
https://vimeo.com/40393795

Tell me the best time I can have with a class A RV. Like what is the absolute best possible trip a person can expect to get out of it if everything goes right. What are people really dreaming about?

I haven't seen a single RV made post 2000s that had an ounce of soul.

>>28614110
>https://vimeo.com/40393795
Based Beyond Belief
but that isn't quite my music speed, so I would go with something a little more vintage, personally:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQf6uqzEAQ8

>>28607089
during the fuckin faggot free-love movement people here literally lived on motorcycles drugs and cheap motels all summer and they called that freedom

>>28614161
Probably go from the base of the US to the tip of Canada (Alaska). A class A without a tow vehicle sort of limits what you can experience though.

>>28596833
Be the change, you can buy either cheap and convert it yourself if you're a utilitarian. Fuck paying six figures for a new factory conversion.

>>28610789
Condo cabs are comfy af if you're an owner-operator, the downside is less haul yield (legally)

>>28614299
>the downside is less haul yield (legally)
I always assumed the load was secondary to the sightseeing in those. Just a way to make a little money on the side to fund the vacation.

>>28610819
love a good hit n miss
>>28611533
Never shit in an RV toilet, number 1s only

>>28615248
>Never shit in an RV toilet, number 1s only
Then what's the point of having it? You may as well piss in a jug and not use it at all.

>>28615248
>Never shit in an RV toilet, number 1s only
Maybe true for cassette toilets, but black tanks are made with turds in mind. (even though the toilet bowl may not be)
Primary concerns are odor and a potential blockage. both of which can be minimized by using the appropriate chemicals.
and if possible, avoid flushing any toilet paper. buy the special thin scratchy RV toilet paper and pray that you dont have to use it.

Also, proper rv pooping technique is to squat on top of the toilet, lining your buthole up directly above the valve. and then when you feel your turd about to drop you quickly open the valve so it can drop cleanly down into the tank. "swish"

I'm less concerned with the size of the toilet and more with the smell and the idea that I'm pooping like four feet away from where I cook and sleep. The smaller the RV the worse this would seem to be, to the point you're basically living in the bathroom.

>>28615972
>the idea that I'm pooping like four feet away from where I cook and sleep
Try living in an apartment or in a house where the bathroom is adjacent to the kitchen or to your bedroom. Same thing, except the walls are a bit thicker.

>>28615972
Shitting where you eat is just part of the RV lifestyle.
Though i do prefer not to muddy my black tank, when its an option i will go outside. ie; i will poop on a piece of firewood then throw that in the fire, then smoke some burgers.

>>28599486
These are super narrow, like several feet narrower than an actual RV. You fit in the parking space, but for what purpose? To fit into parking lots where there literally is only a single space left? How often do you encounter that?

#4 Corvair Ultravan

>>28615972
That's what the ventilation fan is for.

>>28616852
nta but my shitter doesnt have a fan.
Also my rangehood doesnt have a fan either.
The only fan is the main living area roof vent fan, but its broken.
Guess that just what i get for buying a 70's shitbox tho. :\

>>28616858
>my shitter doesnt have a fan.
Then drill a hole and put one in, sheeit anon it ain't difficult