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Update: More details have been found on the incident, and added below. We all have bad days, but some are worse than others. Take this poor soul for example, who seems to have flopped his beautiful expedition truck on a mild trail in southern Texas. From what we can gather, the driver was tackling Old Ore...

Are you looking for a go-anywhere, one-of-a-kind overlanding vehicle? Then this F-550 chassis, with its custom, pop-up, flatbed-mounted cabin could be your new off-grid home. Expedition Portal forum member Scott designed the living quarters of this rig in Solidworks and molded the composite cabin for this project himself. The main pop-up roof provides 6’10” of...

That totally fits in, it's the elemental basis of what I'm doing. I'm just adding a bunch of extras and some flexibility, while trying to keep it relatively...

This week's featured vehicle is a 2006 Mercedes Vario 815 DA 4x4, built by "Le Truck World," and has just returned from exploring Patagonia.

One of the stars of the recent Overland Expo West held in Flagstaff, Arizona, was the Truckhouse BCR built in collaboration with American Expedition Vehicles (AEV).

Thanks guys! Great advice, Ron! I already picked up replacement valve cover gaskets, cam seals and plugs, a tensioner and idler pulleys, and I have an...

Check out the newest overland gear at Overland Expo West in Flagstaff. Highlights include iKamper, Dometic, Redarc, Step 22, and more!

Seikel now delivers a portal axle conversion for the Volkswagen T5 model from the year 2011 onwards, with both short and long wheel bases. The conversion...

Been a few general electrical Q&As lately and I was on the cusp of this work anyway, so I figured I'd document it somewhat. And it doesn't quite rise to the...

Been a few general electrical Q&As lately and I was on the cusp of this work anyway, so I figured I'd document it somewhat. And it doesn't quite rise to the...

Looking forward to seeing the photos of your latest modifications added to this thread. Be sure and check the photo album link out below it has some...

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I outfitted an m101a3 earlier This year. Really happy with it. You have a great start!!

Custom built roof rack for 2000-2005 Ford Excursion. I had this rack custom built by Third Shift Fabrication around June of 2014. It bolts into the factory...

Day 1 Stock SX4 Well I bought me a Suzuki SX4 a month ago. I'm currently working on gathering parts to build it into a trail ready paragliding rig. I...

I never felt like i was driving a 10K + van as it hugged the highway through the turns and cruised at 85 great. On the way home Kaiden and i ventured out...

The Off Grid Expedition 2.0 trailer is built for four season overland comfort, and just might be the best solution for backcountry travel.

The 2000s were a weird time all around, but they seemed a little weirder over at GM. It was like their engineers hunkered down for the Y2K apocalypse, and in their planning, designed bugout vehicles that could be constructed from existing car parts and recycled plastic. When the world didn’t end as they expected, they...

OVERVIEW I like to write, and I like to take pictures, and since I have never seen a full blown Trooper build on here with photos and reviews, I decided to...