This CHEAP RV is travel perfection! 

RVs are like boats in my humble opinion. The best one is your friends.

Fellow Prius driver, and fellow Toyota pickup-RV fan! A couple years ago, my friend bought an '86 Toyota Sunrader, the smaller fiberglass version of the one featured here. No leaks, runs and drives great, BUT... ...Toyota underspecced and overloaded the dually axle from the factory, to the point that the manual implores you to drain all the water tanks before driving it. Don't carry unnecessary weight in the back. And check all the tire pressures every single day. That combined with all the clearly-original wiring horrors, really shook my confidence in Toyota's quality. It needed a lot of love. We slapped some solar on the roof to give that poor alternator a break, and that's actually hilarious -- it's drivable with the alternator completely disconnected, as long as the sun is shining, the panels make enough power for the fuel pump, brake lights, etc.

Bought a 1970 VW westfalia 4 years ago. I'm up to 80,000 miles combined daily and seeing the country and it's the best damn experience if you enjoy fixing stuff yourself in the oddest places

I did the old "fold the brake line over and hit it with a hammer" trick on a snowmobile trip one time in the middle of a blizzard. Made it another 400 miles because the shop that we stopped at wanted to charge us $1200 to fix one brake line, so we just ran it as is.

Good morning, Jay! The phrase, "Necessity is the Mother of invention" is defined as, A need or problem encourages creative efforts to meet the need or solve the problem. You almost have to wonder if Plato owned a Toyota RV?

My man!!! When he said Plan B, I already knew where this was headed.

My mother had 2.Only issue was breaking wheels off and them passing us going down the road. Both of her Toyota campers did it.Besides that and no power, i loved them

I’ve had coffee after a spirited drive in that thing! Love ya Jay!

Absolutely crazy I woke up to this video when I was looking at Dolphin Tacomas on marketplace before bed last night.

These are the stories I can relate to. I love driving hoopties and broken cars man. It’s just so much fun.

My home for the Backyard 400, great place!

I just restored one of these (a Rader) and they're only as good as whoever maintained it. Its interesting doing wood carpentry work on a vehicle!

That's living the right way. Nothing better than a journey using your witts to succeed 👍

The folded up brake line trick I've seen before, usually on a pickup truck when the rear brake blows out. Limp it home on front brakes only (and then hopefully fix it!)

Glad to see jay this morning, thanks for all your stories. Have a great day!

My father turned his toyota 1ton RV into a flatbed dually and slapped a 2jz in it that little sucker screams and rides like a dream! This is awesome!

I think I used to work with the guy he bought it from in Chattanooga.

My brother had a dolphin, they took a tiny Toyota truck, built a house on top of it and didn't improve the engine or brakes. It was awesome but so hard to stop. Parking that thing on a steep hill was the scariest thing ever.

Cousin Eddie would be proud!

Love the Atlantic Canada mention we never get the love that much like we should.

This reminds of when I had a rear brake line blow out on my 86 yota. Stuck a brake bleeder valve in the master cylinder to cut off the rear brakes, and drove home on front brakes only lol

These are the stories that make this channel!!!!!

Thanks Jay, you really started my day off right.

Many are called Dolphins. I see a couple of them around here all the time. I got a very early first year japanese made T100 that is basic as possible. Everything is manual. It has about 800k miles and going strong. One crazy thing about it is one can drop a sbc in it and only have to get a bell housing adapter. Like the trans and clutch Toyota out behind a 3.0 single overhead cam low powered V6 will hold up better than the trans and clutch GM has put behind 5.7L V8's for years.

I always wondered how other states do it. Since about 2001, Arizona has had it where you can temporarly get a paper tag to print out thats good for 3 days that is only for getting a vehicle you purchase from sale to home. and then register and everything has been online too. They finally just added about 5 years ago able to xfer title and register new cars online. that was the ONLY thing i ever went to the MVD for was to register a new car i just purchased and get the title xfered to me. Now its all online :)

I had a '76 Chinook pop-top couple decades ago. It really wasn't too bad except it had NO power. Was going to put a V-6 Buick engine and trans in it, but decided a bigger rig was a better option. Fun on short trips, though!

Love this story. Wish I could do a Vinwiki and share our RV purchase story.

I got to sit in on this one live, great story!

Atlanta will always need more beer.

My family and I took a 92 Lincoln limousine from Marquette MI all the way down to southern Georgia and camped on the way down talk about an awesome world tripping car and a camper if it’s our training

I know where there is one of these Toyota RVs and it is absolutely cherry in mint condition and garage kept. An old man drives it around town about twice a month.

Very cool and inspiring for myself and my son to get out of Wisconsin

Ah yes, the old 1-Ton Toyotas! Uhaul had thousands of them in the 90's and early 2000's. They were absolutely thrashed, and most had popped their heads at some point since they ran the V-6......but they always ran and drove.....just not with much precision or comfort.

See if there's an option to print the parts. They'll obviously have to be printed individually but if you can find the schematic for the part you need or use existing parts as a donor, it would be an avenue to look down.

A great story and l know about that hose over the alternator because in your Toyota camper van you have a 22R motor l have one in my 1997 Toyota Hilux ute

That camper, like it's owner is always there when you need it!

I had a brake line leak. I was just outside of Washington D C . The dealer wanted 60 per hour to fix it. That was alot of money back then. I drove it to upstate New York near Canada with very low brakes. It was a standard. It coat 12 dollars for the new brake line from a NAPA store.

Great change of story contest

They come off the production line in that kind of condition these days.

Great story !!

The brake line isolation trick happens all the time in trucking. Have an issue with a brake chamber? "Cage" it by bypassing the air lines and you're good to go.

gawd that RV is hiddius .... shes a special girl that only a few people could love that...

I know the feeling of the tow bill being worth more than the car.

We have the same Toyota RV! It has been a BIG restoration/renovation project. Just finished putting in a new fuel pump - like you said, some of the parts are no longer available, so you have to MacGyver them.

Homemade alternator makes it home

More RV stories pleaseee

we had one with 3.0 v6 growing up

This was a good one

The Toyota one ton pickups were a total heap of junk. For starters you need three spare tires, one for the front axle and two matching for the rear duel axle. As the rear axle takes a different rim. And it only gets worse from there, as the automatic transmission is not up to that much weight. I almost lost my Vanagon Westy to being behind one that rapidly rolled backwards after blowing said automatic transmission because the brakes are also trash...

Love these old Toyotas

My kinda guy. Adventures at the end of the spectrum are what life is really about.

Cool RV! I wish you told us what you paid for it. Curiosity drives me nuts.

Thank you for being smart enough to keep it off of highways

So, Tennessee has no state taxes because everyone there is 🤪🤪🤪🤪

Want one, better shape though

After all that….you bought it…..(walks away shaking head)😜

It's never an adventure, if you don't go for it. 😂😂

You need Kevin from Junkyard Digs to help you out.

when's Car Trek?

Georgia needs more toyota duallys and thats a facts everywehere needs more toyota duallys

This dude might be my brother, doing exactly what I'd do

I think Junkyard Digs is going to have an easier time selling the one he revived on his channel now...One of his funnier videos too.

morning

Theres a guy that lives in one of thoes by my house

That little trailer looks neat, never seen something so compact with that style of tent. New rabbit hole discovered, stock 1 ton dually hilux pickup.

There is this thing called internation shipping. thousands of these chassis running around in Africa and other places in the world. Just order the parts, only a fool would drive around with 3 brakes working.

These have a 'cult' following, and you'd better become one of them if you plan to keep this. There's a number of issues with these to watch for and you really need to know what the experienced owners know. The brake line isn't a hard fix but you'll have to make them yourself which requires a few specialty tools and careful work. In fact on anything this old you're smart to just redo them all as they tend to rust from the inside out and can look perfect right before they pop. Do the rubber hoses too, as well as a full rebuild of the brakes themselves and all the hardware. The rear ends were never designed for the load and those in particular are a problem so unless you find and swap in something better you need to maintain them meticulously and often, being sure to not ever overload them any further. Slow going with the small engine but these have as good a fuel mileage as you can get from an RV which can make a big difference if you really want to travel. You'll get out of it what you put in it and they don't appear on the market much in good shape, so if you like it then grit your teeth and rebuild it from stem to stern instead of fixing what breaks as you go. If you don't want to do that then get something else which will have a more addressable set of problems and sell this to someone looking exactly for this. And know that any RV is going to eat your time and money continuously without offering a good return on the cost except for the joy using it. How much joy you get will depend entirely on how well you maintain it; get lax and it'll cost you a lot more. Owning an RV is like having another wife who has expensive tastes; unless it gets all it wants it won't be happy and neither will you till you part ways with it. Like owning a boat, the happiest days of your life are when you get it and when you get rid of it; in between it's going to keep eating at your wallet constantly.

I’ve always wondered, why do you call yourselves vinwiki when you’re obviously not a wiki? Are you familiar with what that term means? It is quite impossible to have a wiki on youtube. If you were a wiki, I would be able to edit your videos.

You have to be completely broke to try to save money on brake lines...

These stories are getting sadder and sadder. “I bought a pos camper and it broke down 2 times but I am smrat” This joker drags, 2x speed he sounds like a normal person

Great story!