Product Description

This volume contains detailed, step-by-step instructions for converting a VW Transporter van or bus to a Camper. It gives advice on how to choose the best van for your needs and prepare it - how to plan the layout and choose fittings, how to fit an elevating roof, how to cut panels and fit utilities.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #16354 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

About the Author
Lindsay Porter is the UK's top-selling motoring author and has written literally dozens of manuals on classic and modern cars. More than any of his books to date, this manual has been a real labour of love. Lindsay and his wife Shan have been keen VW Camper owners for several years - ever since they converted their VW Vanagon/Caravelle Syncro to a Leisuredrive Camper and started to produce this manual, in fact. Lindsay hopes the reader of this manual gains as much pleasure from reading and using it as he did from working with the great folk at Leisuredrive in Manchester, England, producing the book and living with his VW Camper.

Customer Reviews

dont press it
I purchased this book thinking it would help me build a camper van, it wont, all it is, is a book full of pictures that anyone could get from the web, the author isnt daft, she knew that this book would sell as there is thousands of camper fans out there, i hope she can sleep at night, im glad i waited the book was reduced to £14.99, it was £24.99+, i think people must be onto her, thats probably the reason she has wrote (sorry taken pictures) and created a new book on the VW T5. save your money and just look on the web, or get the Volksworld camper magazine.

VW to Camper
This book is a photo step by step conversion of VW vans to campers,the only thing is the people who are doing it are all pro. fitters as the main parts are the actual conversion of the authors van.the photos sometime skip to another van and then to another model, the men doing the job have all the correct tools and nothing is taken into account for an armature doing work at home.Some of the author's comments are strange like the fitter being naughty for not wearing gloves and a few other things.I bought this book in good faith but found it not very good.and judging by the number of pre. used ones for sale I am not on my own.

bus/van conversion
This is a fairly practical guide to doing your own conversion. It covers some of the main jobs such as installing windows/seatbelts/elevating roofs, and items like upholstery. There are some limitataions though, as it follows the progress of one t4 and one t25 through a leisuredrive conversion. It doesn't have self-build plans for furniture units, or instructions on fabricating a folding bed. It does not show for example where the floor mounting points are for seatbelts in a t4, nor details of internal measurements, nor how to lower the suspension. However, it clearly shows the steps involved in many jobs and gives confidence in tackling them. A very good buy generally.