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June 23, 2024
If you're looking for inspiration for transforming a bus, delivery or other truck into a home on wheels, this book will send you straight to your local lumber and hardware store with a measuring tape and more ideas than you'll have room for.
Jane Lidz calls the people she interviewed "housetruckers" and that's pretty close to the truth (although those in converted buses might take exception to the term). From a 1948 converted school bus with a loft (!) to a home built atop an old log truck, Lidz covers a range of units--and looking at them, I can see why she didn't call them "RVs": yes, they're recreational vehicles, but mostly, in this group, they are homes and offices, homes for on-the-road musicians and others.
She includes building specs, although I'd guess not enough detail for most people. And given this book was published in 1979, who knows what manner of regulation has since been nailed onto the basic requirements of such a vehicle? So know that you'll be inspired, but you won't find DIY blueprints or details.
Instead, relish the images -- from the cover shot of a truck with a back porch (or maybe it's the front porch...) to the back cover image of a stunning, wooden truck camper -- and dream up your own vehicle for escape.
Jane Lidz calls the people she interviewed "housetruckers" and that's pretty close to the truth (although those in converted buses might take exception to the term). From a 1948 converted school bus with a loft (!) to a home built atop an old log truck, Lidz covers a range of units--and looking at them, I can see why she didn't call them "RVs": yes, they're recreational vehicles, but mostly, in this group, they are homes and offices, homes for on-the-road musicians and others.
She includes building specs, although I'd guess not enough detail for most people. And given this book was published in 1979, who knows what manner of regulation has since been nailed onto the basic requirements of such a vehicle? So know that you'll be inspired, but you won't find DIY blueprints or details.
Instead, relish the images -- from the cover shot of a truck with a back porch (or maybe it's the front porch...) to the back cover image of a stunning, wooden truck camper -- and dream up your own vehicle for escape.
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