congrats and love the color. The only reason I'm sticking with white is for less heat on those sunny days, otherwise I'd love a dark color.
Rig looks great.

 

Congrats with your new van. Looks like you are enjoying the desert! Who did your build? Tell us about your systems. We love van systems!

All the best,
Hein

 

Is that the campground at the top of Lippincott grade? The conversion looks nicely done, did you build it?

 

Is that the campground at the top of Lippincott grade?

No, Eurika Valley area, we generally avoid camp grounds....

 

I avoid low-water areas, especially in semi-arid regions of our country. I drove into Death Valley from the NW (in August!) and the road had JUST been covered with mud by a flash flood. Clear skies, NO clouds around. No warning signs, no others cars around, so I just "powered" the '68 Bug through about 100 feet of "sorta mud". E-zay.

The Fresno FAA en-route radio does NOT accept radio calls from military aircraft that call "Frezburg" Radio. No sense of humor. Perhaps because I was partly responsible for the "introduction" of chinese domestic geese into their city park? No sense of humor. The best hope for Fresno is Marshall Faulk!

 

Uh, what?



Say again?

 

My guess -- based on 'picked this up in Fresno" -- is that the conversion was done by SportsmobileWest. It looks like their work.

 

Yup, Sportsmobilewest did the job for us. They do about 30 - 40
Transits a year at this point.

Systems - isotherm fridge, truma for hot water and furnace,
outside shower, two solar panels, one large and two additional
house batts. The bed is wider than a queen. We wanted an open and uncluttered feel and I think we got that thanks to the tall van.

 

It looks like they cut down the black foam blobs on the B pillar next to the curtain airbags.

 

No airbags behind those on most.... or all cargo vans. Our does not have any behind them.

 

@Kjell

Very nice looking conversion!

On the bed, are you sleeping North-South (front windshield to back door) or East-West? At 6'3" I need that N-S orientation. We went with an HR-EL for that reason. My wife still wants us to stop in Sportsmobile Austin to look at options. I want to swap things around (crew cab, two-seater bench for some trips).

Oh, I went with silver, anything but white. Green and Red both tempting but came down to Texas heat. Hence silver. Still working on a name, nothing has struck me yet.

 

"Very nice looking conversion!

On the bed, are you sleeping North-South (front windshield to back door) or East-West?"

The bed is only 6' long (we are 5' 9" these days) we sleep N-S, if we made the bed longer the galley would have been effected and that was a priority with us. Overall the package is very efficient for our needs.

By the way the cabinet at the slider is 6" narrower the the SMB standard cabinet, this helps with the open feel
we wanted.

 

None on my 2015 cargo. I pulled the foam blocks some time ago and there's nothing behind them. They may be part of an option package.

 

There's a thread here with pictures from a Ford special bulletin of what's behind them with Ford saying don't touch, remove, or modify them. They're not labelled "airbag" because there's no airbag under them (technically) in any of the models but they seem to be part of the airbag system.

In the LR (and maybe MR) wagons (and apparently later cargoes), the airbag charge canister is behind them with the front side curtain airbags above the front doors in an in-line arrangement. In the HR wagons (and apparently HR 2017 cargoes), the front side curtain airbag and its canister are both above the front doors in a stacked arrangement. They extend under the foam blobs about an inch. (see photo) The consensus here seems to be the foam is there to guide airbag deployment downward only.

 

This is GORGEOUS!!! And functional!!! 🤩🤩🤩