Tacoma Truck Bed Camper Build

A day and a half later owen and i became the proud new owners of the.

Tacoma truck bed camper build.

I m now working on its. My toyota is a gutless truck and it had no trouble with the camper. For the camper shell s weight i didn t set a hard target i just challenged myself relentlessly to question the build approach. How to build a truck bed camper for under 400.

I wanted a camper aerodynamic in design but with a balanced look that would sync with the design lines of the truck. This home made setup will be unreal. I m now working on its fourth iteration. I don t know him but he did a great job.

The camper s construction consists of a patented single wall riveted aluminum insulated with rigid r5 foam lined with suede on the inside. It was about time for me to up my game on the stealth camping setup. The only hard side truck camper on this list the all aluminum kimbo 6 truck camper was built specifically with the toyota tacoma in mind. Low and behold this lil taco was for sale an hour and a half south on the border of georgia and north carolina.

A few days later i bought a leer truck cap and spent the weekend crafting my first storage system a drawer in the bed. After a quick internet search we decided that we wanted to look for a toyota tacoma with a bed camper shell. Headspace is about 6 feet and width is also about 6 feet. I love the look of the tacoma and i wanted the camper shell to compliment it as much as possible.