ID19 Campervan conversion!

Philip Chidlow · Post by **Philip Chidlow** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 3:00 pm

I agree that Firetruck is superb. I love the feature of that deep cut into the nose. Brilliant.

As for the mobile greenhouse thing. Awesome. Very (as Tim suggests) Gerry Anderson!

DLM · Post by **DLM** » Fri Feb 13, 2009 6:48 pm

That "campervan" is most truly an utterly hideous thing - why hack about an ID or DS when there are such things as H-vans? On the other hand, I'd guess the donor was probably a rusty wreck before the "conversion" took place.

For what an H-van can do in camper guise see fairly recent issues of French magazine Gazoline where there's been one on a journey through Patagonia (a brief stroll by the standards of some of the articles in this publication).

maxgreenwood · Post by **maxgreenwood** » Sat Feb 14, 2009 12:44 am

the firetruck is great, citroen really run with those sweeping pencil strokes on the drawing board to the actual end product. i like that. You can just see how the front end and the wheel arches came about.

the double decker, well i hope its got air con, my nads are getting clammy just looking at it.

top marks for trawling through the archives to find these oddities from the vaults of modernism. Wasn't the 50s and 60s great! Well of course the 70s and 80s produced many great cars, but i think it all started in the 50s and 60s.

SamWise · Post by **SamWise** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 8:10 pm

I have a half formed plan to restore a Commer camper, re-engined with a 2.1 TD from an XM. Is that Cit enough?

maxgreenwood · Post by **maxgreenwood** » Sun Feb 15, 2009 10:32 pm

the comma vans are great, always liked the look of those. i think you'd have to have it on citroen hydraulics tho to be a cit hybrid. you could call it the "citroen semi-colon"

SamWise · Post by **SamWise** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:09 am

The more I think about this, the more I like the idea. I now have thoughts of an initial camper, with just the engine transplant, but then a second van, much fancier, and with the hydraulics in there too, to assist in getting the lowered look. Lowest setting could be literally on the ground, normal would be very low, high driving setting would be to make it sensible on normal roads and over speed bumps. I wonder just how difficult it would be, engineering wise? These have been inspiring me.....