" >
Hold the phone! What is that?
Maybe the only one I’ve ever seen, it’s a firetruck (and a classic at that) with a huge camper mounted to it. Power, style, uniqueness, and RVing comfort bundled into one surprising camper unit.
The truck is a 1978 Wildland International Harvester Loadstar 1700 fire truck. It belongs to a couple, Thomas Atkins and Sequoia Buck, who converted the off-road ready big machine into a flat-bed, triple-slide RV camper. They were recently interviewed by Truck Camper Magazine because of this truck’s outstandingness. They’re actually going to feature this in a calendar, so you can get a printed copy of it that way.
For those wondering about that big camper unit, it’s an Eagle Cap 1165.
What did the couple have to say about their RV camper job? “I belonged to the volunteer fire company in Sonoma County, California for fifteen years. The 1978 International Harvester Loadstar 1700 was our Wildland fire truck. The fire company acquired the truck in the early 1990s. In the 2000s, the truck was replaced by Sonoma County with an International Navstar, a newer version of the truck, that was more modern and aggressive. The older International couldn’t be inside the fire station bay anymore, so it sat in our front yard next door.”
They were going to turn the truck into a farmtruck until they thought of the idea of realizing a long-time caravan for RVing trips.
You can see our gallery for this one below. All the images on our website expand when you click them, so you can get a better look.
For more from Truck Camper Magazine, find them indexed in our vehicles, trucking and RVing directory. You can search for the company’s name and look for suppliers and dealers in an area near you by looking at our regional headers. And to see more Trucks, click here
