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Post a pic!

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Ok, but to be honest- which I should have mentioned.. Mine is 50 years young unrestored. I should have said that to begin with...

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I wish I had better pics, took those on the side of my house, its gated and makes it a bugger to get around the front.

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Guess I'll pop another picture of the one I had for years.

Edisto Is, SC:
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Near CO/NM border:
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On the Hatteras-Ocracoke Is. ferry:
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I never get tired of seeing that truck Tim. It's one of those trucks that got away.

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Thanks for posting them! Nice old Custom Camper there.

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It sure was. I tore it down in '04 to build a shortbed because my wife kept planning vacations that didn't involve camping and just my young son and I used it some. The truck needed work and it seemed a 4wd with low-profile (crank-up) camper would suit us better. With the overhang and slide back bumper towing was limited and it was higher than I'd like to load kayaks or canoes. The woman ran off on us before I could get a camper for the '72 K2500 and it never happened. Him and I could have gotten a lot of use out of that once she left. Oh well.

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Here's mine. It's a little different than others posted.
Cab and chassis with Chinook class-C / Chinook motorhome
All there when I got it. Been fixing it up

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Inside

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That's-a-Nice!

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Thanks jocko

Found this when I pulled the carpet
It was under the tar mat
Didn't even see it for several weeks, until I was getting ready to put the new carpet in.
You can see it was folded over at the high hump.
I was stoked to say the least

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are you going back to parchment or doing saddle interior? either looks great, real nice rig.

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The interior is about perfect as it is now.
I think Chinook actually dyed the seats and door panels
The headliner is cut out to allow passing through, but it is parchment
All I am doing is new carpet
New wood inserts in door panels
And I had custom sheep skin seat covers made for comfort over original buckets

Here it is in paint
And right after it came out

You can see we striped the paint on the sides of the coach

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That came out nice. I always wondered how to paint a motor home's cab roof.... Seems darn near impossible to me without some major muscle movements!

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Then we buffed. And buffed. And buffed

The side door was pretty much toast.
We are in the process of building a new one.

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That is actually a fiberglass cap. Moulded in white.
Chinook is know for this. Helping against leaks

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Here's how it sits now.
Need to finish interior still, in the coach.
And a few exterior trim things
The hard part, it takes a lot of shop space.
Problem is, after all that buffing, I hardly want to leave it outside

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Campers with fiberglass tps have proven themselves a more than worthy investment today. I wanted to buy the GMC Chinook Livrat was selling here about 10 years ago. I think Superchevy ended up buying it. It was Medium Gold Poly, just like the '70 CST/30 Custom Camper former class C Winnebago I bought as a cab & chassis. I'd believe Chinook might have dyed the interior. Mine had a Parchment bench seat interior. Winne replaced the cloth seating surfaces with a plaid cloth. Those name brand companies did a lot more than just mount their camper on GM's truck, like the more economical ones did.

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I'm talking about painting the truck cab roof, seems it would be not so fun.

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Oh. I misunderstood
No power tools in that space.
Also the paint is not as smooth as all other areas, because you can't lay it on correctly
But looks fine, you can't tell unless you run your hand over it
The hardest part is getting the cab clearance lights off, and then back on
I've still got one to go,it ain't easy

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I used to paint large utility trucks/equip for a living back in the late 90's, It was all for our power/electric provider here in Maryland, Baltimore Gas & Electric co./ BGE and when it came to prepping/painting those tight areas like that roof between the camper It is a PITA, but it can be done properly. For those cab lights, I used a specialty screwdriver from Matco that has a 90* bend in it close to the head. For prep, it was hand or block(if it fit) sanding and prep solvent/ tack cloth. For paint it was turn the flow up to heavy and the fan spray down to a tight pattern and hold the gun back a bit. Its kinda like those carnival games where you have to shoot the water gun into the little hole from just too far away, that's about the best explanation for that part, lol. And don't be afraid to lay it heavy there either. I don't miss that work!

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just saw this , man that's just kool all over , very nice work .....Don

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Thanks! So it is doable, just not fun. Probably better than removing the camper or the cab I guess. Good info, thanks again.

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8' Palomino soft side pop-up.
The slots really make it IMHO!

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Here's the twin to the one posted above by Chevyland. I posted it on the Craigslist thread a couple months ago. It's been on Phoenix Craigslist for a while.