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George Mauro of Humble Road gives a detailed Ford Transit Trail camper van tour packed with clever van conversion ideas, including a motorized elevator bed and a hidden bathroom with a Shoji-style door. Built for a retired couple, this short-wheelbase Transit Trail uses bamboo finishes, 80/20 framing, and a layout that keeps the rear dinette open while still fitting a full wet bath and a permanent-feeling sleeping space.
Inside, the build features a phone-controlled bed lift with memory settings, a recessed EcoFlow power system, 400 watts of solar, shore power, alternator charging, a Webasto gasoline heater, and a 48V DC air conditioner. Patrick Botticelli walks through the storage, galley, armoire, shower, and lighting details, making this a strong watch for camper van build fans, RV conversion ideas, and anyone comparing the Ford Transit Trail to a Mercedes Sprinter 144.
Created for viewers searching for van tour, camper van conversion, hidden bathroom design, motorized bed system, off-grid van life, and custom Transit Trail build ideas. It also fits searches for RV walkthroughs, tiny home on wheels inspiration, and practical engineering-focused van builds with smart storage and modern finishes.
Inside, the build features a phone-controlled bed lift with memory settings, a recessed EcoFlow power system, 400 watts of solar, shore power, alternator charging, a Webasto gasoline heater, and a 48V DC air conditioner. Patrick Botticelli walks through the storage, galley, armoire, shower, and lighting details, making this a strong watch for camper van build fans, RV conversion ideas, and anyone comparing the Ford Transit Trail to a Mercedes Sprinter 144.
Created for viewers searching for van tour, camper van conversion, hidden bathroom design, motorized bed system, off-grid van life, and custom Transit Trail build ideas. It also fits searches for RV walkthroughs, tiny home on wheels inspiration, and practical engineering-focused van builds with smart storage and modern finishes.
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00:07Welcome back to the show. Today I have George with Hubbell Road back on. He's going to give
00:11us a full tour of this Ford Transit Trail custom camper van and this thing is absolutely incredible.
00:17It has an elevator bed in the back, a hidden bathroom, and so much more. So join us for the
00:22tour.
00:23Thanks Patrick. Glad to be back on your channel as always. Yeah this is a Ford Trail as you mentioned
00:30so it's a shorty. This is comparable to a Mercedes Sprinter 144. About the same length.
00:37This is a couple. They want to do some extensive traveling. They're both fully retired now.
00:43So we start here. They wanted a very modern look. We went with bamboo. We love the way the bamboo
00:51complements our 8020 which we use in every van. Out here we have our patio table. Now I'm a stickler.
01:01I don't want to ever use a cable that comes down to hold the table up. So we've done so
01:08many different
01:09iterations of the patio table and this one is really very simple and elegant. There's a little magnet
01:17that holds this and what breaks the magnet is this little lip we put in. So all you have to
01:24do is bring
01:24it out. It frees it up. The strap in the back tells us where to land it. It's just so
01:31simple and elegant.
01:32But it works and it's sturdy. So we were happy to come up with yet another design for the patio
01:39table.
01:40We also added this little, I don't know what you would call this, maybe this is going to be an
01:45herb garden.
01:46This is the first time that we actually busted beyond the galley into the window area of the sliding door.
01:54As you come across here you can see the kind of clearance we have.
02:00You know it's basically credit card clearance until you close it.
02:06We've got a Fiamma awning on this side of our homemade 8020 roof rack. I designed those in-house.
02:15That way I can judge how wide and long I want them depending on what's going up there.
02:22In the back here we've got our spotlights. These are from Black Oak. So these are flood and spot to
02:30light up the whole rear of the van. I've got a Starlink connection out here. There's one Starlink
02:37up on the roof already. They're going to buy a second Starlink and I've got a set of switches inside
02:44that you can toggle from one to the other. So they're going to maintain two Starlinks, one permanently
02:50mounted up there. The other one they can put out wherever they need it, when they need it.
02:55In the back here,
03:00now you'll start to see the floor plan. This is a dinette in the back and we've got a series
03:08of
03:08storage boxes and drawers. So we put our L-Track on top and there's a storage box for taller items.
03:17This is actually the tempering valve for hot and cold shower water.
03:24Now, as long as the water pump is on, this is charged and ready to go. The exit for that
03:29is
03:29right down here. This is one of those A-core house hydrants they're called. So basically all you do
03:36when you want to shower, you connect the A-core right into there and twist it in. The moment you
03:45twist
03:45it in, this is charged and live. It's got an on-off switch and then there's a suction cup that
03:51puts it
03:52right up here. At the same time you're prepping that, you can come over here. We made these little
03:59pucks on our 3D printer. This is for your shower rod. There's a rod that goes in with a clevis
04:05pin
04:06so that the doors don't blow open and the shower rod falls down. So that's how you take an outdoor
04:13shower.
04:14Also, we've got drawers back here and they did not want handles. They felt because they can reach from
04:23underneath they would just leave it like that. So there's some symmetry here. We've got our two storage
04:29boxes, two drawers and then here is another drawer that also has a workstation on top.
04:39And this drawer also opens this way.
04:46So you've got a lot of storage there and you've got your workstation. And this has those little detents.
04:56These are locking drawer glides. And while I have you back here, I'll show you their little laundry box.
05:03This is where they're going to put their dirty clothes until they can get to a laundromat. On this
05:09side, we've got shoe cubbies on either side. And I'll explain later why we have these fixtures here.
05:18These are actually landing pads for the bed.
05:27Around this side, we've got some more spreader lights and we've taken to putting an aluminum skirt
05:34on the side of our roof racks to make them look a little more like the third party roof racks
05:40that people like.
05:41We've got our shore power right here, 30 amps of shore power.
05:47Coming further down, we've got the exhaust for our Robosto furnace.
05:51So you've got a it's it's gasoline fired.
05:56Really nice furnace. And we've locked into getting those balanced and working correctly.
06:01One thing I want to mention to anybody is if you have a window by that exhaust,
06:07you want to make sure you keep that window closed when this is running,
06:11because you can get that carbon monoxide coming back into the camper.
06:16Transit Trail comes with its own set of running boards on both sides, as well as a lift kit.
06:24One of the ironies of the Ford Transit Trail, besides the max air fan that's factory installed,
06:30was leaking. So we took that out and we put in our own ceiling fan.
06:35And the tires they had on the Transit Trail coming out of the factory were rubbing.
06:41So they had a recall and their solution was to put smaller tires on the on the Transit Trail.
06:48So we got a lot of owners bent out of shape about that.
06:52We're probably going to send this out and have this lifted and put bigger tires on it at Agile Off
06:58-Road
06:58in Southern California. We make our own wind deflector up on top. That's a starboard product.
07:06Again, we've got so much freedom with what we can do because I make my own roof racks.
07:12So we can do anything we want to do. Up, down, in, out, a whole bit. So coming inside,
07:23I'll give you the overall first and then we'll go back in for details.
07:28So here in the back is our dinette area and I have a dinette table that slides so you can
07:36get in and
07:37out. It also moves laterally slightly. We balanced it. So this is the way you're going to come in and
07:43out of this dinette most of the time. So we left more space, more access there. But I can still
07:49come
07:50out and leave through the back doors if I wanted to. So in the dinette, we extended our cushions,
07:58our back cushions, we extended those over our landing pads. I say landing pads. These four
08:05little white countertops. This is the same Korean countertop we have in the galley.
08:10This is where the bed comes down and lands for sleeping. So most lift beds you see are happy jack.
08:20And I didn't want to do that because your van walls curve and your happy jack legs would have to
08:26be too
08:26far inboard. Four of them. And this couple is really all about the vista, the sight lines. They
08:35want everything wide open. We couldn't even put our covers on the back doors. They wanted as much glass
08:41and open feeling as possible, which was great. That's fine. So the underside of this lift bed
08:49has bamboo inserts. You would call this a coffered ceiling. And then we put a starboard
08:58second ceiling in it so we have this recess. And then we lit the coffered ceiling with LED rope
09:05light. And then we put in our puck lights for task lighting. So basically, if you were having dinner,
09:12you would probably just want the rope lights lit. Very romantic. But then when you're working,
09:18you would put on your puck lights and really open up lighting in here. I've got awning windows on both
09:26sides. These are 1033 awnings from Van Windows Direct. I like the mechanism. I've had some very good
09:34luck with these windows. Awning, not slider. I prefer awning because you can open them in the rain.
09:40Now we've got other mood lighting. We've come up with a really nice system for bringing our wall
09:46panels down in a Ford van. And I'm a proponent of continuing to show the actual van as long as
09:53there are no mounting holes in it like you have over here. We're getting baskets I ordered from
09:59overseas to come in and fit over this area. And then what we do here is we just put a
10:06starboard
10:06insert that we cut and do a round over. This is here purely to cover the rest of the mounting
10:12holes
10:12in the door because they didn't want our full cover that we do out of starboard. And I actually
10:19like this as an aesthetic. I think it looks pretty cool. And we incorporated it down into our shower rod
10:25cups that are on the back side of these doors. When the bed is down, their heads are on this
10:32side.
10:32So this is where you can keep your bottle of water, your phone, whatever you want to leave over there
10:37while you're sleeping. That's this person. This person has the entire galley to put their stuff.
10:46If I come out of here, I've got a little coffee bar and we put this in in such a
10:52way that when the bed
10:53is down, you can still access it. So somebody can stay in bed and you can get up early. I
10:59would get up
10:59early and make coffee for my wife. Those are slam latch. Over here, if you pull this cushion up and
11:09out of the way, there's a hinged lid and then a storage box. There's a storage box on either side.
11:20And then if you lift that out, this is where we have all our mechanicals. This is the water side.
11:26So over here, I've got a six gallon whale seaward water heater with a heat exchanger. So when you're
11:34driving the van, I'm pumping my glycol, which is from that reservoir. It gets pumped up front,
11:40steals heat from the engine, brings it back to make hot water. My water pump is in this cavity. I've
11:46got an
11:47Acuva UV water treatment system. I've got a little fuse block over there. You can see that I have a
11:56voltage regulator for the Starlink. Starlink needs a true 32 volts to operate correctly. All of my
12:06valves for my plumbing system are over here in the corner, easily accessible.
12:14And they're not going to be pulling this box out. This is really for me to work in there. Unless
12:23there's a problem with the water, then they can go in there and turn that zone off.
12:32On the other side, I have a similar situation, but it is the EcoFlow
12:40power kit. Very nice. This is the 48 volt. This is generation one for the power kit. I still believe
12:48that it's adequate for van life. So we've got 10K, we've got 10,000 watt hours of lithium. And there's
12:57your little module for EcoFlow. I've got, I think it's 12 DC circuits and six AC circuits. I've got dual
13:08solar arrays up on the roof. And my shore power shutoff is in there as well.
13:14One thing I do with the, with the EcoFlow, you've got these 12 20 amp circuits. But what I do
13:21is I run
13:21trunk legs. Each of those circuits is 20 amps max. So as you saw, there was a little fuse block
13:27under
13:28this box. That's a 20 amp trunk line. And then I spread out and I run lights with it. There's
13:35another
13:35one under here, another fuse block under here to run this stuff. So you can make use of these 20
13:42amp
13:42circuits with a trunk line. Branch off. You don't have, and there's plenty of extra
13:48fuse space in there. I didn't use it all. That's why I say Gen 1 30 amp is more than
13:54sufficient.
13:55I have a 48 volt Houghton air conditioner on the roof that runs off one of the battery ports.
14:05I like the EcoFlow. I really do. I have not had a problem with it yet. This is my touch
14:11pad
14:12for the EcoFlow. And if you notice it's recessed into the wall because our tolerances are so tight,
14:19this lift bed that goes up and down would have ripped it right off the wall if we mounted it
14:24out here. So we had to recess it. Our dinette table, it moves in and out this way. It goes
14:33like
14:33that a little bit. And then of course you press the lever and you can push it down to bring
14:38the bed down.
14:39The bed only has to, we only have to push it down below these landing pads.
14:44On each of the corners of the dinette boxes, we've got 120 volt AC and we've got your USB and
14:53USB-C
14:54on either side. So they can sit here and work together. We made the table just the right size
15:02so it fits between our landing pads in all four corners.
15:11So the bed, to drop the bed down, you release this lever and you push down like that. As long
15:20as I'm
15:21below this landing pad, I'm good. I had to go get my phone because this works off an app on
15:31your phone.
15:32So what I did instead of doing happy jack is I made my own bed lift and it has memory.
15:45Down we go.
15:49So I have my stopping points at the top and the bottom.
15:55So when it's time to go to bed,
15:58you drop the bed down and then you fold these two sides over. This is a custom futon mattress.
16:05Their heads are going to be up here. This is a five inch futon mattress made with all organic materials.
16:12It's very comfortable, very comfortable.
16:16Then you have a fan up top if you need it, if you don't want your air conditioning.
16:22And you can see how her cup holder and her phone tray relate.
16:28Up here is my, I need this rail because I've got these four pulleys. This is a pulley system
16:36with motors. We put the motors in a bulkhead up in the corner there and the pulley wire comes around,
16:44down, over and back up. Now, if I didn't have this guide rail here made out of 80-20,
16:50I put this whole thing together. It took me about two weeks to develop this and have it run smoothly.
16:55You need this guide rail here in order for the bed to go up and down evenly. Otherwise,
17:02it would just be all over the place. And I put this mattress, it's a 72 inch mattress. I'm 36
17:09on the
17:09bottom and then 18-18. What I'm doing is I'm bringing all of this mattress material
17:15into the highest part of the van when we go up.
17:25Now, with this rail here and these guides, this is all 80-20.
17:31It brings it up straight. When it gets to the top, I've got a spring connection. Watch under here and
17:37the lights go on. Isn't that cool? So I got these two little spring connectors for my DC circuit. What
17:46that
17:46does is it charges the circuit that's in the bed frame because you can't have a wire going up and
17:53down with the bed. So, boom. It just works like that. Simple.
17:59Here's my Webasto controller. I used to use their big fancy keypad with the digital readout. It gave me
18:06nothing but trouble. Turns out this rheostat is a perfect situation. You just turn it where you want
18:12it and you get heat. Now, when the bed is down, how are you getting in the bed you ask?
18:19This is another
18:20one of our brainstorms. This pulls out sideways. Okay. Then you lift this step out like that and then you
18:31bring your second step out like that. And it locks down on the floor and you can get up into
18:38the bed.
18:40You want me to do that in reverse so you see what I'm talking about? This is on drawer glides.
18:45That
18:45locks in with magnets and then you lift it. There's two cam arms on either side. Then that locks in
18:52with
18:52magnets and you close it away. Slam latch. Let me try that again from back here so you can see
18:59it.
19:00Because this is another one of our design masterpieces. We had a ball designing this. This comes all the way
19:07out. Then you lift this out of the way. That lands. This is a little tricky. It's got to land
19:14straight.
19:15And then you pull out the next step. And it's very sturdy. And once you step on it, we've got
19:23rubber
19:23pads under there and it drops that sixteenth of an inch. Magnet will all lock up. Close it away. Pretty
19:32cool.
19:32Next thing I want to show you down here. This is a service panel for the Webasto heater. So what
19:39we did
19:39is the Webasto, if it needs to be serviced, it's going to be us. So rather than put a handle
19:44in,
19:45we just did a 3D printed access cover. I can get to some of my shower water joints and the
19:53Webasto.
19:54Now, if I have to replace the Webasto, I'll have to pull the fridge. That's the extent of pain that's
20:01involved
20:01in our access philosophy. Not so bad. Not so bad. This is an isotherm or isotemp. I never remember which
20:10one it is. I use them both. This is the Slim 140. So it takes advantage of the tall space.
20:18It's not so wide.
20:20It has a decent freezer in it. This is AC-DC. I never connect the AC side. There's no point
20:29in that.
20:31What else? We've got our gray vinyl, marine vinyl ceiling. This is our own system where we make our
20:38panels, quarter-inch panels. We wrap those with the vinyl and then we do a four-inch aluminum stretcher
20:43that goes across all the roof ribs in the van. And the reason we do this, it looks really nice.
20:50It's
20:50very clean. But if I want to drop any of these panels to run a wire at some point in
20:54the future,
20:55it's very easy to do. If I take this one stretcher down, two panels can drop so I can get
21:02my work done.
21:03Ditto on these sidewall panels. You take these guys off and this panel can come off. It's very easy
21:10to add wire if we need to. But we've also taken to running a few extra wires when we're building.
21:17They're sitting in there. They're marked off as spare. And if in the future these owners come back
21:21and say they want to do something extra, the wires are there. And then these are really just aesthetic.
21:28These are just to continue the aesthetic of the stretcher coming down the wall. And this is our avocado
21:35shelf. We've been doing the avocado shelf since Irene from Carry On Vagabond asked for one in her van.
21:43That was my second build. So we put some version of that avocado shelf in every van now.
21:50Up here we have a Houghton 48 volt DC air conditioner with heat pump. This one I believe is 13
21:58,000 BTU.
22:00Very quiet, very efficient. On most mornings, let's say, you're going to use the heat pump
22:07to take the chill out of this van while you're making your coffee. Only when it's really cold
22:12would you need to fire up the webasto, which is a gasoline-fired heater. In the galley, we always give
22:20you a bank of drawers. This one's got a bunch of remotes in it. This has got your induction cooker,
22:27which you can pull out and put on the on the galley here.
22:34There's one more drawer here under the sink. And where you see these panels,
22:41they are access panels. They're magneted in. Now down here, this is pretty interesting. This little guy
22:49is our nightlight. And this couple, a very loving couple, they're very cute. They asked for something,
22:58they wanted the word love as their nightlight. And we couldn't get a design that was going to
23:04really be timeless. So I did a little bit of thinking in my pea brain. And in my research,
23:10I came to learn that a heartbeat of a person that's in love is different from the heartbeat
23:17of a person who's lonely. So this is an actual graft heartbeat of a person in love. And so then
23:26we put
23:26two of them synchronized because you've heard that expression, two hearts that beat as one. Well,
23:34that actually happens. When two people are in love, their heartbeats begin to synchronize. So that's
23:40how we came up with this nightlight that would offer a loving sentiment for this couple. Very cute,
23:48right? Here, we also made them a starboard sink cover for when they're not using the sink. Now,
23:54this guy is a professional chef, retired chef. He was a big chef in New York City. I can't tell
24:01you who
24:01he is. Very prominent though. Acuva, UV water, UV and filtered water. Back over here real quick
24:09to Command Central. We've got our fresh water gauge. We've got our gray water gauge. We've got our
24:16different lighting buttons that are in here. And these are also dimmable if you choose to do so.
24:21These are our security lights outside. We've got spreader left, spreader right, spreader rear,
24:27and critter lights under the van. 120 volt AC, USB, USB-C, water pump.
24:37That's Command Central. And the way we build these things, we always put all of these things in a
24:42separate panel. If I have to edit anything in here or repair it, all I have to do is take
24:47these screws
24:48out. This panel lays down and all my wiring is right there. This is something new. We did this in
24:55Lisa's van first and now I think we're going to do it in all our vans. This is our fresh
24:59water fill.
25:00Putting it up here in the galley makes it very easy to fill your fresh water.
25:06I've learned that most of my clients aren't actually using hoses to fill their fresh water. They're using
25:11jug and a funnel. They come out of the supermarket with several jugs of water. So you take this cap
25:17out,
25:18you put the funnel in, you pour your water in. Pretty easy. Coming down here, this flip up is
25:28mounted in such a way that it allows our cooker to be flush with the countertop. This is as per
25:39request.
25:39And then you just plug it in right down there. We have AC down here and that little light switch
25:45is for a light outside for your patio table that doesn't have a cable. So this is pretty nice.
25:52When you are cooking, you've got this out of the way. You can slide pots right across there.
26:00Demonstration. Okay. You didn't believe me? You saw it. Saw it here first. I'm getting a little silly out
26:08here. And then of course, we always make sure that the cooker fits in the drawer.
26:18Now, this cooker, if you see here, we had to recess this cooker into the wall of this peninsula.
26:28We needed to gain back all that thickness. Why you ask? I'm going to show you. We have this really
26:35cool armoire, right? This is a closet with a mirror.
26:42And these are the his and hers drawers for their clothing. These are nice, big, deep drawers, right?
26:50We filled this opening. This is actually the shower and the bathroom.
26:57So you slide this across. It engages a magnet and you have your shower and we have a Trellino 17
27:05inch
27:06toilet in there. And I can show you, we gave her a little bit of a Japanese
27:13flare with the door of the shower. That's the Soji screen door.
27:20All made with wet wall. So it's all waterproof. The entire shower is wet wall. And we actually dado,
27:28rabbit and glue into our 8020 channels. So these can never leak. But if they did,
27:36it's not a catastrophe because all our walls are inside the shower pan.
27:42So if these walls were to leak, it's going right down into the pan and it gets pumped out to
27:48the gray tank.
27:49These are our tracks for our armoire. And it's really very, it's a lot of work to get this
27:59to work properly. And then it just locks back in place with a ramped latch lock on the side here.
28:07So you can see it latches right in place. We're going to put a little grab string on here for
28:13them to pull.
28:15Up front here, we left a little space for a telescoping ladder so they can get up on the roof
28:24to clean
28:25their solar panels. So we made a little caddy box for the ladder to set right in there.
28:32And then over here, alongside the ramp, because we elevate our floors two inches with insulation.
28:39So we ramp down to here so you don't have a trip hazard.
28:43We've got a little box here that could be used for whatever. If you have a dog,
28:47you could put leashes in there and stuff. We just made use of the space. That's all. Make good use
28:53of
28:53the space. The seats do swivel. This one swivels, not that one. And then you have your standard factory
29:03shelf up top over the cockpit. George, this is incredible. I'm blown away. Like, you know,
29:09I geek out out of stuff. And you know, last time we did the trolley hidden bathroom, people just fell
29:16in love with that. Yeah. Yeah. You know, that one was actually big enough that I could get in there
29:21and close the pantry. This one with that shower door, you used every inch possible that you could
29:27in there. Yeah. But the finishing and the detail and the feature level of this van is incredible.
29:32We didn't talk about it. Is there solar up on the roof? Yes. There's 400 watts of solar.
29:36400 watts of solar. You've got enough battery. Oh yeah. This is fully off the grid. Oh yeah.
29:41Yeah. 10,000 watts of battery power. You've got shore power you can bring in for charging.
29:49You've got alternator charging, 70 amps while you're driving. And then we have the 400 watts on
29:53the ceiling. And I put that in the two separate arrays. The one of the little drawbacks of the 80,
29:59of the EcoFlow is it can't handle too high a voltage with a solar array. 60 volts is the max.
30:05So I run down two separate solar arrays because series is better than parallel to wire up your
30:12solar. One thing I want to point out too is like you love leaving a gap here for proper airflow
30:18in
30:19the shower box. Allows your refrigerator to vent properly. Even though it's not a propane fridge,
30:24it's a compressor 12 volt style. Yes. There's heat that gets by. Absolutely. You don't want to build it
30:29up in a cabinet. You know what? There's a design element I want to show you. If you just come
30:33over here for
30:34a minute, I forgot to mention this. It's really very important. Right back in this area right here
30:41is the EcoFlow module that must remain cool if you want it to live any kind of long life.
30:48So what we did here, this entire, this is a chase way. This is a chimney. This is wide open.
30:57So the airflow comes through that module and all the way up and out. So it will have a nice,
31:05cool,
31:05long existence. Yes, we gave up all this material here, but we had to do that anyway for the bed.
31:15So what were we going to do with this little area? We made that air chase. Ventilation is very important
31:21to me in the van. Under the floor and all throughout, everything is open so the van can breathe. Never
31:27have a mold problem. None of my vans have a mold problem or condensation. Go back to the ventilation.
31:33When Ford put the Max Ferret fan in, it was over here, right? It was here. Yeah. And that's not
31:39the ideal
31:40space for every van. I'm not sure why they thought to do that. Yeah. Well, if you've got windows here
31:45that you can crack open at night and you put this fan on exhaust, you are getting a nice draft.
31:52But that would mean we'd have to put our air conditioner here. As you can see, that's no good.
31:58You got your mattresses here. That means you'd only be able to use that during the nighttime when the bed's
32:02down. So we flip-flopped it. It's a standardized 14 by 14 hole. Yes. So you can put an air
32:07conditioner.
32:07Yes. Yeah. The Houghton's are really nice. Really nice 48 volt DC. Very quiet. And I know a lot of
32:15people watching, maybe a couple of them are going to have a question like,
32:18does this dining area make into a bed as well? It does not. Yeah, it does not. The table
32:25comes right back up where you need it. I mean, we could do that at a later date if they
32:33decided they
32:34wanted to bring a grandchild or something. We could certainly make that happen here. But it's not
32:39necessary. For a couple, they're not going to be sleeping down here. They push the button on the
32:43phone and they got a bed in a couple seconds. Yeah. It's easy. It's quick. And then they have,
32:49you know, they've got double duty here. It's like a duplex, which we needed to do because this is a
32:54small van. This is like the 144 Sprinter. I really like these Ford Transit. I know they weren't
33:00popular a couple of years ago. Well, you couldn't get them. Ford was barely building any. Yeah. Well,
33:04now that you could get them, I see a lot of builders now, people building their own vans,
33:09switching over to the Ford Transit. Yeah. Yeah. If I were to build a van for myself right now,
33:14it would be a Transit. Me too. 100%. I would do it. I would do a Transit. I would get
33:18a four-wheel drive.
33:19Yeah. Maybe not the all-wheel drive. I'd love to get, yeah, four-wheel. With a lift on it. Go
33:23see
33:23quickly. And then I would do a low roof. Mm-hmm. This same wheelbase with barn doors instead of
33:28a sliding door and put a fiberglass high top on it. You know what? Like your van. It would be
33:34a new
33:34version of my van. Yep. My van's 29 years old. I always think about what's going to go wrong next.
33:40That's bulletproof. Bulletproof. Here's another thing with Ford. You know, they've got these huge
33:46holes here to access the hinge for the doors back here. So we just make a 3D printed cover for
33:54it.
33:55Just to, you know, you want to be able to get at it. A Ford dealership has to get at
33:59it. If it's too
33:59difficult for them to get at it, they're just not going to do it. They're going to tell you, no.
34:04So,
34:05you know, it's that easy. You know, I just did that with one hand. And I like how the coffee
34:09bar,
34:10when you slid it out. See, it has that slit in it. It looks like it's two separate things. Yeah.
34:15But
34:15it's just to match that cabinet line. It's detail. It's purely detail. Yeah. That's important to us.
34:23It's all the way across. Yeah. These little details, the aesthetic is part of it. We got to be
34:28functional, right? It's got to be practical. But then, you know, it's, you know, I hate to say it because
34:35you sound kind of pompous, but it's a work of art. It's, you know, it's what I do. I love
34:41it. I
34:42appreciate the opportunity today to get the tour of this van before the customer picks it up next week.
34:47This is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel. I'll put George's
34:51contact information in the description and I'll see you next time. Oh, make sure you subscribe to his
34:56channel. He does a lot of awesome videos that are educational on how these things are put together.
35:02And you also get a cool tour when he's complete with them. I'll see you guys next time.