THIS is how to build a Campervan - Part 2 .....

wildebus

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The first part showed a Newell RV.
Newell build top-end ($2,000,000+) RVs and make their own chassis from the ground up.

Another top-end option is the converters who take a base coach chassis from Prevost and do their conversion on that base. Prevost are a bus company that make the luxury coaches and tour buses and also make these base rolling chassis's for the converters. 'Base' might be misleading, as the converters pay around $700,000 for this Prevost base to then build on.
Marathon are one of these convertors and their coaches are in the $2,000,000 price bracket as well.

This Marathon in the video below is meant to be the nicest one this reviewer - Andrew Steel - has seen, and watching this video I would say it is maybe the nicest one I have seen on Youtube :)
Of course, it doesn't matter if you could afford a bus like this or not if you are in the UK or Europe (or probably anywhere outside of North America) - the size of it - and all these big buses - are too big to be practical to use and the weight means a full HGV license as well (fuel economy is likely not important if you can afford to buy one in the first place).
But still interesting to watch and look at what kind of innovations you could add in your own van (think they are skimping on the TVs a bit mind with just the 3 inside? my Motorhome is just 6.3M and has 3 TVs :D )

Anyway, the video ....
 
Pudsey Bear

Pudsey Bear

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I like them a lot and if I was in the US I would have one, maybe one of the old Greyhound busses that's been converted though as I love the look of them, I'm subscribed to a chap who repairs them. Bus grease monkey.

This one is a beauty though, I wasn't that keen on some of the decor inside, but it was so well equipped, you'd need to watch the video to use it each time you went away, did anyone notice it had THREE alternators on it, must have a rack of LBs somewhere.

$1.8m second hand though, might have to go for a new un.
 

wildebus

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Pudsey Bear said:
I like them a lot and if I was in the US I would have one, maybe one of the old Greyhound busses that's been converted though as I love the look of them, I'm subscribed to a chap who repairs them. Bus grease monkey.

This one is a beauty though, I wasn't that keen on some of the decor inside, but it was so well equipped, you'd need to watch the video to use it each time you went away, did anyone notice it had THREE alternators on it, must have a rack of LBs somewhere.

$1.8m second hand though, might have to go for a new un.
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I liked how if you don't like the hum of a AC fan, you can just use one of the other ACs and redirect the air flow.

I was thinking as well that you have to be fairly tech-savvy to use something like this with all the controls and buttons. Not sure how well that would translate to the UK market when on some forums and facebook pages there are multipage discussions about how just one button works, let alone a whole bank of them on a wall.

you thinking of the Greyhounds with the roof hump halfway back? I'd love one of those as an RV as well :)

Something that would be usable on British Roads and also have bags of character .... How about one of these?
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or a BRITISH 5th Wheel?
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Pudsey Bear

Pudsey Bear

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Nice bus but I had to stop watching the video it was making my eyes go funny as he was shaking the camera so much, I'll dip into it again later, going shopping soonly.
 

wildebus

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I've watched that couple for years in fact. Interesting and 'normal' (for Americans, anyway ;) ).
As well as the vintage bus they also now have a Ducato Campervan and a smallish Yacht (sounds all very 'show-off' but isn't really when you see their video about their 'fleet' ).
 
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