The Shredmobile

This is the beginning of my work-in-progress. My Truck. My bed, transport, kitchen, food storage area, gear locker, and bureau all wrapped into one. After seeing the portability of my friends' vehicles turned into miniature RVs I felt I needed to have a similar system in order to maximize my ability to move and live in the mountains.

The Truck: 2008 Toyota Tacoma with a 4 cylinder, 2.5 liter engine. 4WD high and low, standard transmission.

The Cap: A.R.E. V-series with added Yakima Tracks for the rack. Sliding windows on either side and lockable rear window.

The Rack: Yakima Control Towers attached to the Tracks with the Landing Pad 1 kit. My old Thule Box that I had on my Corolla attached well to the Yakima round bars.

The Bed/Storage System:

 The sleeper's left side flips up to access storage space below.

The sleeper's right side is a free floating panel that can be pulled up to store a bike (so it can be locked up). Right now it is heavy and awkward to place and replace so I am brainstorming ideas of making it less cumbersome to access gear below it.

The whole enchilada.

I spent a whole week designing and building this and still wanted more time to work on it. Right now it is heavy but it is quite sound structurally. I would like to add partitions to make clothes access and storage easier as well as book storage. I have a lot of wasted space right now that I need for other items. My work in progress.