Mitsu Fuso Camper examples

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The Mitsubishi Fuso FG 4x4 is a popular choice as the chassis for an expedition camper.

Carl Hunter's expedition camper, a Bigfoot travel trailer mounted on a Fuso FG 140 4x4 chassis, is a well-known example.


Carl and his wife, Mary, decided to drive around the world in 2002. Carl designed, sourced, and constructed this vehicle in 90 days. The truck and cabin were virtually trouble-free during that 6 month, 22,000 mile journey.


Bruce Hersey mounted a 17 foot Casita trailer as a camper body. The Casita is 16 inches narrower than the Bigfoot trailer, so it doesn't extend beyond the width of the cab.


Australia's John Learoyd constructed this adventure camper. The single rear wheels are 225/100 R16 Michelin XZL. John also replaced the stock suspension with air bags and longer springs.


Kim and Don Greene designed this camper. The shell was built by Unicell in Toronto. Kim and Don are currently in Australia, after driving throughout South America and across New Zealand.

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ExPo member "TomD" purchased Darrin Fink's original AATREC camper


Australian Kym Bolton designed this pop-up camper for a trip across Asia in 2007.


ExPo member Doug Hackney designed and constructed this highly modified Fuso camper in 2007.


Expeditioncampers member "Tom" has a new camper


This is "Tom's" second Fuso camper. Here's the first, on the Prudhoe Bay haul road in 1993.

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Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski worked with Santek to design and build this camper in 2007.


Expeditioncampers member "Jeffrey" mounted an S&S camper to the flatbed on his Fuso FE. The vehicle is just slightly over 18 feet long. The electric jacks make quick work of lifting the camper off the flatbed.


Expeditioncampers member "Desert Camper" designed this camper. It was built by Callen in El Cajon, CA.


The Australian company WarriorSVB builds this custom camper


Amesz, another Australian firm, sells a custom camper on a Fuso 4x4 chassis


Amesz also has a cool shop truck with single rear wheels

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Hardy Hornberg built this camper from aluminum sheet


While not a camper, this vehicle could be outfitted as one


This short wheelbase FG carries a 12 foot Alaskan Camper


I have forgotten who owns this camper! Can anyone help?

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OutbacKamper provides these photos of home-brew campers in Australia





Don Greene contributed this photo


Too bad we can't purchase a crew cab version of the Fuso 4x4 in USA!

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Nathan Donaldson's of Heathen Mechanical conversions. He says they run around $85k.

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Don Greene contributed this photo

That looks like a Chalet Travel Trailer on the bed of the truck.

It's a pretty unique design in hard-sided pop-ups. I had a neighbor in Colorado (a bow hunter) who loved his Chalet trailer.

However, it seems like an unlikely choice for a quad-cab truck. It would be pretty tight with four or five people in that camper.

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Hardy Hornberg built this camper from aluminum sheet


While not a camper, this vehicle could be outfitted as one


This short wheelbase FG carries a 12 foot Alaskan Camper


I have forgotten who owns this camper! Can anyone help?

Hello, newbe here.

The last FG is now mine, has been since 1998. It's hard to tell from the pic if I owned then or not.

The PO lived in Evergreen CO, he is the one that had it built at Hallmark in Brighton CO.

I bought it with 18,800 miles on it. It's up to 63,000 now.

It's been to Alabama for the Trail of Tears Ride in 2004, several trips to Lake Powell and Moab. The Moab trips involved the Yamaha or towing the CJ3b

It's also been to AZ and NM a few times over the years.

I've lived in it for around 7 months total, on a couple job sites, sat TV helps.

The only repair on the chassis has been a cracked exhaust manifold. I added an extra spring leaf a couple years back on all 4 corners.

Fuel consumption runs 10 to 14 mpg depending on conditions and speed.

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welcome to the forum unkamonkey,


nice to see another FG on this site, do you have any current pictures of your set up? Do you have any advice to new owners about anything FG related? Any interior pics? Yes I know we are a demanding bunch,, but we like pictures. What kind of travel do you use it for? and lastly from me.....

The only repair on the chassis has been a cracked exhaust manifold. I added an extra spring leaf a couple years back on all 4 corners.

Fuel consumption runs 10 to 14 mpg depending on conditions and speed.

I was shocked by this comment, adding extra leafs?? Why did you do that? Is your rig heavy? I am thinking of getting rid of some leafs to soften the ride, so I was just wondering why?? My only guess is a heavy rig and leafs got tired. Thanks for posting.
Yves

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Australian Kym Bolton designed this pop-up camper for a trip across Asia in 2007.

That rig just looks so perfect. Hands down my favorite.

That SRW Shop truck looks great as well.

Cheers

Dave