'Bump' - just bringing my post to the top again. It got 'buried' whilst I waited for moderator approval of my first post.
All thoughts welcome.
regards
Cuppa
http://cuppa500.com
All thoughts welcome.
regards
Cuppa
http://cuppa500.com
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Hi Cuppa
I agonised over the same problem when I set out to buy a patrol cab chassis. I occasionaly have use for a tray, but I go camping quite a few times a year, I saw some good setups in some telstra bodys, and good value for money, But I ended up going for a ute with a good heavy aluminium tray, with a removabe carry bar at the back. Over the christmas n/y break I manufactured a break down cage for the back which should be covered in canvas by friday the 14th all going well. It consists of 5 pannels which arent very heavy so I can handle them on my own, also they can stack up against the wall flat and are no thicker than 400mm. So for me it came down to versatility of both a ute and a covered "wagon", compactment of storing the cover, and the suspension, all the telstra units I looked at were Dx with leaf springs, I wanted coil rear for ride while touring with light loads.
I don't know if this helps or hinders your decision, just my 2 bobs worth
I agonised over the same problem when I set out to buy a patrol cab chassis. I occasionaly have use for a tray, but I go camping quite a few times a year, I saw some good setups in some telstra bodys, and good value for money, But I ended up going for a ute with a good heavy aluminium tray, with a removabe carry bar at the back. Over the christmas n/y break I manufactured a break down cage for the back which should be covered in canvas by friday the 14th all going well. It consists of 5 pannels which arent very heavy so I can handle them on my own, also they can stack up against the wall flat and are no thicker than 400mm. So for me it came down to versatility of both a ute and a covered "wagon", compactment of storing the cover, and the suspension, all the telstra units I looked at were Dx with leaf springs, I wanted coil rear for ride while touring with light loads.
I don't know if this helps or hinders your decision, just my 2 bobs worth
I have a slide on camper that I use to use on my old Hilux (since seen the light and bought a Patrol but wagon) I love the versatility of being able to use either the tray or camp back when I had the Hilux so I kept the camper and built and alloy tray trailer for it so I basicly have the same versatility for my wagon. my advice would be if you want all the extras from the telstra ute without the tray, buy it and replace the tray after you have built or bought what you want and sell the telstra tray to recover some costs or sell it to finace what you want to replace it with. I will put a couple of pics up for you.
Here is the camper on the Hilux.
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Here it is on the trailer.
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I hope this helps.
Here is the camper on the Hilux.
Here it is on the trailer.
I hope this helps.
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Hi, Cuppa mine is a home made job it does have plenty of storage for what I need but there are much better slide-ons out there I just done the cheap option as it is only me I need to worry about but as you said you need to find something to suit your lifestyle good luck with sorting it out and have plenty of safe and enjoyable trips.
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