Question for truck guys and gals (vehicles, camper, pickup trucks, Texas)
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Do you see camper tops on trucks anymore? Those things use to be everywhere. Some were merely a top for the bed with windows. Some were functional tiny campers lowered onto the truck bed. Around here, they use to be popular with the hunters and fishermen who were use to roughing it.
Location: The Circle City. Sometimes NE of Bagdad.
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Originally Posted by sailordave
Do you see camper tops on trucks anymore? Those things use to be everywhere. Some were merely a top for the bed with windows. Some were functional tiny campers lowered onto the truck bed. Around here, they use to be popular with the hunters and fishermen who were use to roughing it.
Don't see many cab over campers these days, do see a few with toppers (camper shells), but not nearly as I did pre 90's. I see more class C and A types on the road these days.
There is a really nice 8 1/2' cabover camper for sale around the corner from me that looks pretty nice
Not nearly as many as years ago, but I still see a couple dozen a year around here. There are a few older ones in the woods right now that guys use for hunting (don't care if the top gets banged up a little by branches.)
Sailordave, I believe you're on to something! While I occasionally see a nice color-matched shell on a newer 1/2 or 3/4 ton pickup, they're fairly rare anymore. I actually was surprised to see a cabover camper in a Ford F250 making its way up I-75 in Ohio a couple of weeks ago.
The last camper top I had was on a 1971 Chevy Cheyenne. It was just an insulated topper but I had a fold-down bed, side cabinets and a window boot. I appreciated that old topper out in the desert of SE New Mexico when everyone else has to sleep in tents along with the scorpions and tarantulas.
No; even out here in west Texas where even bankers have pickup trucks, you don't see bed campers too much any more. You do see a few toppers to protect a guy's tools or equipment but even those are getting rare.
My highway queen has a topper, shell, cap.
It's used to haul dogs and tow the TT.
Now and then we will truck camp with it also.
The work trucks do not have a topper.
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