Fantastic "No-Build" Modular Minivan Camper Tour! (Dodge Grand Caravan)

hi everyone we have yet another adventure vehicle tour for you today we have a 2018 Dodge Grand Caravan minivan and this is my new friend Joanne here she's got a really nice rig and the great thing about this rig in particular is that it's basically no build it's all things that you've acquired acquired and you can take it out as easy as I put it in yeah things that you that anyone can buy and just stick in their minivan and have have an adventure rig ready to go so we're gonna have have Joanne hold the camera for me while I give you guys a tour so here we are on the inside you can see she's basically put different pieces of furniture around the inside here and start off with the bed platform so this platform is a set of industrial shelving from Home Depot and so there are you can see two shelves here and there are another two shelves in the back forming the back half of the bed platform and she's got some storage under here looks like she's got clothes and tools and then back here a little bit more she's got some some food some dry food some dry goods on top of the of the uppermost shelf here she's got a yoga mat and then a three inch foam mattress from Amazon that she's used a serrated knife like a bread knife to to cut to make it the right width here and then let's go over to this this is a little bench that is used for you know sitting on taking your shoes off sticking things underneath and it's just it's made for a house it's a you know something you can buy from Amazon and we've got some cooking gear here some shoes on this side and then in this middle one here so there are three compartments three drawers here and then this middle one there's a jakhary 240 which is a small battery unit as solar generators is what they're called and so she can charge that at home and then bring it on the trips or use the cigarette lighter to charge it up while she's driving and then turning to the right here we have this seat so this is a this is a really interesting seat I'm gonna have Joanne model it for you here it starts out flat then it can fold up to be a right angle basically so you can sit on it flat or it can do several different angles and so it can be just a cushion that you sit on or you can put the back up and it's a it's a full-on full-fledged chair so she has that just sitting right up against her three drawer cabinet here and this three drawer shelving unit is just from Walmart you can get this kind of thing at a lot of big-box stores and in top shelf she has her stove and some other cooking gear in the middle shelf she has some some items for washing up she's got a bin for doing dishes then in the bottom there she's got a fan a nice big fan that she can recharge at home and also charge via USB on the road so that's basically most of the inside of the van here we have this unit here with the three drawers we have the the two shelves basically the the industrial shelves that have been taken apart and put side-by-side one behind the other and then this three drawer plastic set in the back here here's a look at the back again this is the back of the three drawers three plastic drawers in here you can see the two layers of the shelving and she's got a good amount of storage there between the shelves I'm coming around to the other side I have a little wicker basket little square cube here and in here there are toiletries and disinfectant wipes and a little miscellaneous miscellaneous camping items got a sleeping bag here first-aid kit here jumper cables here in this box and then she's a really interesting way of of putting the the front curtains up so this is a piece of metal heavy aluminum is just a kind of a flat bar of it that she got it at Home Depot and then these curtains are from Walmart she cut them to length she made them a little bit shorter and did a little bit of modifications up here but this channel at the top of the curtains was already in there and so I made it convenient for sliding on on something like this so she took this and bent it to conform to the top the con tours of the top of the van here so there's a bend here and it bends again up here and then again on this side of course and then the way it's stuck on are stuck in or staying up is really interesting too so it's just slid into the top of the of this pillar here between the headliner and this kind of support pillar on the side that has the the seatbelt on it and so this piece of flat aluminum it's flat enough that it can just slide in there and it stays nice and secure and then over here we have a piece of velcro right in the middle to keep it from from going back and forth a little bit and so this but this blocks out basically all of the light when this is in place this there's no light bleeding through around the edges here and then in the middle to keep this closed in she has a couple of clips she just uses to join the two pieces of material together then on the side also she uses some clips to go around this this handle on the door here to secure it there underneath the bed here in one of the bins are some reflectix window coverings cut to fit each window back in here and then in the front we've got the cooler this is a cooler from Walmart and then the windows here have been tinted jo-ann is from Arizona it's a hot sunny place and so this kind of thing is really valuable if you spend a lot of time and in this kind of climate and I think that just about does it is there anything we anything we missed no I again the the great thing about this is that it is something anyone can do this is a very nice comfortable very functional spot but it doesn't require you know 20 trips to Home Depot to get all the hardwood and hardware and all that stuff so I really like it for that reason and thank you guys for watching thank you Joanne for sharing your rig with us and if you have any questions leave them in the comments below and we'll be patrolling those and and we'll answer whatever we can thanks again thank you 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Id: g50M5He2MWs

Length: 6min 49sec (409 seconds)

Published: Tue Apr 14 2020