00:00This is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel.
00:03Back here at Ready, Set, Van in Trenton, New Jersey.
00:06Today Ben is going to give us a tour of this Ford Transit Trail Base Camper model.
00:11This thing is really cool inside and out, so join us.
00:15Hey Patrick, thanks for coming. I'm really excited to show you this Base Camper.
00:18The Base Camper is actually the first model we ever developed here at Ready, Set, Van.
00:21And it's actually the current model that I have for my van.
00:23But when we started we did them all on the Promaster and this is a Ford Transit.
00:28This happens to be a Transit Trail, which is a particularly rare version of the chassis.
00:32But, and we adapted it for the Transit and it's pretty awesome.
00:36I'm very, very pleased with it.
00:38This whole, the customer added a whole bunch of nice details.
00:41Put some KC lights up top, which are going to provide a ton of light.
00:45All the light exterior lighting is hooked up to controls in the driver cab area.
00:50We got some scene lights on this side.
00:52There are scene lights on the other side as well.
00:54Right along the side here we actually bedlined the whole side.
00:56So, including the bump out pod here.
00:59We got the flare and this area.
01:01This is the customer's request.
01:03And honestly, I love it.
01:04I think it's really great.
01:05We're going to start doing this for a lot of our clients.
01:07What's nice about this is these, these little flares, these pop outs.
01:11They stick out a little bit.
01:12They give you more room in your bed.
01:14But they also tend to catch branches and things like that.
01:16So, it's nice to give them an extra, extra protection.
01:19And then, of course, we have two arctic turn windows here.
01:23These both awning out.
01:24I'll show you them on the inside, but they're really wonderful, wonderful lights.
01:27This van happened to come with a nice set of running boards here from the factory.
01:30They're really super.
01:32And, of course, we got our drain over there.
01:34And this is the outlet for our Webasto, which is our heating system.
01:37Up top, we've got this really nice roof rack up here by Flatland Vanco.
01:41It's awesome.
01:42It's got decking and everything.
01:43It's sweet.
01:44And, of course, on the back of it here, we've got some exterior lights clamped to it.
01:48So, again, those are hooked up to the lighting controls that are inside.
01:52Looking inside the back of the garage here, we've got a nice big area of storage here
02:00for all kinds of things, bikes, you name it.
02:02Plenty of room in here.
02:05On this side here, we've got our plumbing system, which has about 25 gallons of water in there.
02:09We've got a four-gallon water heater.
02:11We've got an outdoor shower here, which is great for rinsing off.
02:14And this is our water fill here, a light switch for our garage lights.
02:19And over on this side over here, we've got our whole electrical system.
02:23So, it's a 3,000-watt inverter, which is powered by 200 watts of solar on the roof.
02:27Also, alternator charging.
02:28He has lots of alternator charging.
02:29He has a dedicated second alternator onboard that's powered through three 50-amp DC-DC chargers.
02:36So, lots and lots of power, and then 600-amp hours of battery with a little room to expand
02:41if you ever wanted to do that.
02:42So, pretty, pretty fantastic electrical setup.
02:45Of course, we also have 110-volt AC here, 12-volt if you need that for, like, inflatables or anything,
02:50USB, you name it, all that stuff.
02:53And, yeah, let's come around the side here.
02:56And, of course, we've got a Fiamma awning up top that's mounted up to the roof rack.
03:01You know, another pad on this side that's bedlined.
03:04And another set of lights up top for scene lighting all the way around.
03:09Coming in inside here, we've got 110-volt outlet right here by the entrance, which is nice.
03:14And our floor is a waterproof vinyl floor.
03:16It's one big sheet all the way through, which is really nice.
03:19Of course, there's insulation underneath, and then the van is thoroughly insulated throughout.
03:24In the front here, the passenger seat swivels around.
03:27He could also put a swivel on the driver's seat, but he chose just to swivel the passenger seat,
03:31which is, you know, which is common request.
03:34We've got a mount here for a lagoon table.
03:37And then up under here, these are the lighting controls for all the lights,
03:41the exterior lights that we were looking at.
03:43Over here in the kitchen in the base camper, he chose to go with a walnut interior.
03:48So this is a walnut butcher block countertop.
03:50It's absolutely gorgeous.
03:52And it has a grain-matched cutting board in it, a nice 50 by 15 sink,
03:59and also an induction cooktop right here.
04:02So the induction cooktop is awesome.
04:05Huge fans of that.
04:06And right above that here, of course, we have the window that we saw on the outside.
04:10This awning's out.
04:11It also has a bug screen here and a shade.
04:14And in my personal van, I have to say, I love this little spot here in the window.
04:18It makes for a great little shelf.
04:20I have little, well, they're fake plants, but I put little plants there and other little things,
04:24which, you know, is a nice little touch.
04:27Of course, we have a 80 liter fridge here, which is awesome.
04:32One thing that's really nice is we make this little kind of hidden storage compartment down here
04:37that most people have never seen.
04:39It's kind of a nice place to, I don't know, put some, put some things.
04:42I've got a nice big drawer in the top here and then a really nice pantry here for any,
04:49any foodstuffs you got.
04:51And then, of course, we have another storage here under the sink.
04:55And then I want to go up top here to the overhead.
04:58So in the transit, because the transit has this irregular shape in the front of the transit,
05:03and we have this one big open cabinet here, which is nice.
05:07You know, you could put, you know, blankets and things like that in here.
05:10And then down here, we've got a microwave.
05:13It's all tucked away, hidden away, which is, which is nice.
05:16And then, you know, more, more overheads that go, that go the length for clothing and things like that.
05:22You know, again, we've got walnut, just grain matched all the way through.
05:25That's just what we do here.
05:27And that just goes with our overall aesthetic, which is just this very clean interior, very much
05:33reminiscent of like what you would have in your home.
05:35It's just a nice clean white walls.
05:38These are all half inch lightweight ply with two or three layers of thin insulation behind them.
05:44So over here, we've got the passenger bench seat.
05:49So one of the nice things about the passenger bench seat is, you know, you can sit here
05:54and have this table, which is really nice.
05:56But you can also flip this around and sit here, which is like delightful as far as I'm concerned.
06:05This with the slider door open is just, is just wonderful.
06:09That's how I use mine all the time in my van.
06:12And then under this, under this cushion here, we've got a toilet compartment.
06:17So we can put just about any toilet.
06:19He chose to go with the Trilino here, but really just about any toilet will work great there.
06:24And next door here, we've just got another storage compartment.
06:29So, you know, all kinds of things can go in there.
06:34And over on this side, there's more storage under this bench seat,
06:37similar as over here.
06:38And all of our controls are over here.
06:40So we've got 110 volt outlet here, 12 volt things.
06:44We've got a light dimmer here.
06:46This is a light switch for, this actually manages the electronic automatic locking system
06:52we have here.
06:52So all the drawers lock automatically.
06:54This disables that if you want to turn that off for any reason.
06:56And then this is a switch for our water heater.
06:59So, um, this is a mount for a, um, an iPad.
07:05So they're thinking of maybe using an iPad here instead of having like a big kind of ugly TV.
07:10This will be a nice solution for, for that over here in the bed area.
07:15Uh, we've, you can see we've got the big bump outs here, uh, which really extend the bed.
07:20So this bed ends up being about six and a half feet long, which is nice.
07:25It's got a lot of nice length.
07:26It's a little narrower than a full size mattress by about two or three inches.
07:30Um, but nice big bed.
07:32Uh, they also chose to go with a 12 volt fan in the back there, which is a very popular
07:37choice.
07:37And I think a good idea.
07:39And then up at the head of the bed here, uh, we've got 12 volt, uh, sorry, we've got, um,
07:43USB charging on both sides.
07:45So you can plug in all your devices and all of that.
07:47And then up top, right above me, we've got our AC unit.
07:51This is a Hoffton unit.
07:52Uh, it's awesome.
07:53It just pumps out tons and tons of cold.
07:55And then of course we trim out the whole, uh, rear pillar.
07:59Um, and it's just really nice fabric wrapped, um, finish.
08:02So it just kind of gives it a nice, nice finish.
08:04Uh, and then above me here, we have the max fan,
08:06which of course is like the essential thing of van life.
08:09It kind of defines van life.
08:12And then lastly, uh, there's a pass through access here.
08:14So this is just a removable door.
08:15Um, uh, there are different options for this,
08:18but this is just a removable door to get, uh, access into the garage.
08:21So yeah, that's our base camper.
08:23This is the base camper on a transit.
08:25Um, and it's, it's been pretty fantastic.
08:27I'm really glad you've been able, able to come.
08:29I think one of our first tours that we did was a base camper
08:32around pro master.
08:33Everybody loved that.
08:34This is a very efficient floor plan and design because it's wide open inside.
08:40Not everybody needs a bathroom or shower box inside their van, right?
08:44And not everybody needs a fixed dinette.
08:46This is pretty nice that the table slides in and out from underneath the bed.
08:50So if you're out like at festivals and hanging out in the van,
08:53you can have a group of people in here.
08:54I think you could probably sit four or five people in there and still not feel claustrophobic.
08:59Yeah, it's, it's an awesome layout for, for hanging out.
09:02It's very spacious.
09:02It's just nice, big open design.
09:04And it's basically like if you don't need that fixed full-time shower,
09:07this layout really is just fantastic.
09:09Yeah, you can shower outside, right?
09:11Absolutely.
09:12Easy as that.
09:13Well, I'll put a link in the description so our viewers can click over to your website
09:16so they can check out the build process for one, pricing, and also to your YouTube channel.
09:22Because you guys do a lot of great YouTube demonstration videos of your products
09:26and some of the accessories you use inside the van.
09:28Sure.
09:29This is Patrick with New Jersey's Outdoor Adventures YouTube channel.
09:32See you next time.
