The Ultimate Expedition Vehicle
An off-road camper cabin for the Toyota Land Cruiser VDJ79 Single Cab. Ready to be built into the ultimate expedition vehicle.
Built to last from modern industry standard, structural glass fibre reinforced plastic insulated panels and structural adhesives. Suitable for local adventures or intercontinental travel. It’s an improvement on the camper shell that has been tested for two years across New Zealand and through a Japanese winter, redesigned with a fixed roof. Painted to match your truck, two doors fitted, bolted to your chassis. Comes as an empty cabin, you fitout the inside.
Empty camper shell, $55,000 NZD including GST. Limited first run.
Email about a build: info@joeleeper.com
KEY FEATURES
Full standing height and a fixed bed. A home for long trips.
Bolts straight to the existing body mount points on a 79 Series single cab chassis. No tray, no slide-on. Sits lower and lighter.
About 400kg all up, leaving about 840kg (including passengers) of payload on a current NZ-spec 79 single cab.
Built taller or shorter to suit you at no extra cost.
Spare wheel, recovery gear and tools load through their own external storage locker door.
All-seasons insulated panels. With a diesel heater installed, comfortable at -13°C.
Painted to match your truck and fitted to your truck in Christchurch.
WHAT IT IS
A fixed-roof composite cabin for the 79 Series single cab. This is the chassis-mounted expedition habitat design that's everywhere in Europe. It mounts straight to the chassis on a steel subframe, so it sits lower and lighter than a slide-on. Standing height inside, possibilities for a lengthways bed over the cab, a side entry door and a storage locker.
Walls, roof, floor and cab-over are fibreglass-skinned insulated composite panels, a solid insulated core with nothing inside it. That matters on a winter night, because framed campers sweat along every frame member, and that's where the damp, the mould and the rot start. Here the insulation is one continuous layer right through the corners, so the inside stays dry and the same temperature wall to wall. The only place anything passes through is the door frames.
With a diesel heater in your fit-out it's an all-seasons camper. I've been comfortable in the pop-top version at -13°C in a Japanese winter.
Inside is a clean, insulated cabin. You fit it out the way you want it.
WHAT YOU GET
Included: composite cabin, fully bonded and sealed. Two lockable doors, fitted and sealed. Hot-dip galvanised subframe and mounting hardware. Exterior painted in 2K, colour matched to your Toyota paint code. Solid Toyota colours included, metallics quoted. Fitting to your truck at my Christchurch workshop. Handover pack with mounting spec.
On request, quoted with the cabin: windows, access steps, fully integrated fuel filler hose.
Not included: the truck, the interior fit-out, and delivery.
PRICE AND HOW A BUILD RUNS
$55,000 NZD including GST, fitted to your truck in Christchurch.
30% deposit secures your build slot. 40% before final painting. 30% at completion.
This is a limited first run, and slots go in order of deposit. Lead time is around 12 to 14 weeks from deposit. Most 79 single cabs take longer than that to arrive, so the cabin is usually waiting for the truck.
Full terms, including warranty, are in the build agreement, which you get before any deposit is paid.
CONTACT
Get in touch to secure a build slot.
email: info@joeleeper
