hey everybody campervan eric here how you all doing
no wait wait we gotta try something original here
what's going on everyone obviously i have some big news to share with you there is a new acquisition
here on the channel welcome today i'm going to give you a tour of my newly purchased 1997
ford camper van by coachman purpose of this video is to give you a tour and show you what she is
in the next video i'm going to explain a lot more but yes this i picked up and this is going to be
on several new adventures here in the future it is probably the cleanest coachman camper van i have
come across very meticulously maintained this is the coachman m19 rb which stands for rear bath and
we're going to do an exterior tour and show you it does have tinted windows but they're a little
purple okay so on the outside here you got the fridge vents it's got a two-way fridge it does
have an onan micro light generator in here that runs might need a little bit of servicing but
it does have the onboard generator there on the back here it's got the double barn doors
and i will just show you this for reference so you can see because of this model
you do have the toilet and the shower here in the back not a dinette more on the inside later though
coming around the other side we've got the water heater we've got an outdoor shower as well as
the indoor there's where you store the sewer hose there is your black tank and gray tank yes that's
right this has a plumbed in black tank for your toilet and gray water for your shower and sinks
here is your plug for 30 amp at the campground right there here's your locking waters where
you can gravity fill it and hook up to the threaded at your campground gas tank here
we're working with the triton v8 this is not the 351 windsor of 1996. this is the triton v8
uh 6.8 liter i believe but it's the uh the big block v8 yeah coachman vans is the one that put
this one together did this conversion and so without further ado let's go take a peek inside
all right well let's start up front with the two captains chairs the main chair does not swivel
like this one swivels and you know because it's just me and the kitties
i may end up leaving it in this position so that i can just sit down and and face this way the only
thing is because of the side mirror i'm going to have to pop it up like this i'll have to drive
like that so that i can still see my side mirrors but yeah it's a 97 ford we've got cup holders up
here somebody upgraded the stereo i don't really care about but air conditioning works fantastic
there's two charging ports for gopros and stuff 127 000 miles cruise control tilt steering
uh it's a four speed with overage overdrive so it gets really good gas mileage previous owners
said it's supposed to get um what they say is 15 16 miles per gallon i don't know and if we
swing around to the living room area we've got what used to be the jackknife sofa here however
this has been upgraded to a four inch memory foam it's still a fold-out bed i'll show you that in
a minute but right now it works perfect for one person i don't know if i'm a big fan of all the
teal in here but um to make it a bed i mean just get rid of this and then that's where i've got my
covers and other blankets stuff right now but uh for one person to sleep right there or it's also
hinged right here it comes out and there's pieces of wood you put here it folds out and then this
piece right here goes right here to make a full queen bed if you ever had two people in here but
for one person and a cat just this one space is gonna be fine we're gonna get to all the storage
but and i've got a few things in here just mixed throughout here there's a lot of storage for a van
now this model also comes with the pull out bed so up here you have what would be another bed there's
no mattress and again i'm storing some stuff up there but this would slide out all the way and
then you put a mattress up there previous owners didn't want to use that for a bed so they put in
some extra storage here and now you you take this out if you want to pull this out i'm going to use
it for storage and also give the cats a little place to hide out windows have a pull-down blinds
on all of the windows and everything it's got a fantastic fan here up top got lots of dc lighting
i've also got on all the lights i've already popped in some led bulbs into all the sockets
here is the kitchen area here with a sink there's also a pull out table so you can
have extra space on your counter or it could be used as like a desk for this seat right here
oh power doors and power windows and everything also so push of a button up there does
all the doors including the rear door back there also but yeah next to the sink we've got the two
burner stove it did not come with an oven it could be added later but right now the furnace is down
there underneath where the stove top is here's all of the monitoring systems here where you can check
all your levels there's a push button start for the own and generator a little fire up porch light
there's also a battery disconnect which will shut off everything in the rv for storage water heater
i haven't been able to turn that on just yet but it's got the original dometic fridge from 1997
which if i can unlock it here and it does work it does chill although we are now in the danger zone
but it does keep cool that's at least good it's got a built-in microwave here oh let's pop up
i forgot so there's more storage on this side so lots and lots of van storage they may have added
these ones because the doors look a little more custom but that goes back pretty deep back there
and then also this is just another access spot to get back there another outlet back there and tv
hookups yep there's also another pantry right here with deep deep storage i'm telling you man this
van has a lot of storage i showed you this one also next door more storage there double bin and
it gets deeper as it goes down here for even more oh yeah co2 sensor smoke detector and all that
propane leak detector more storage under there and now the pride and joy yeah this is pretty unique
to find one of these camper vans where they have not removed the shower or the toilet to store more
shoes it's a definitely a dying breed everybody wants to get rid of it and just use it for a
weekender if you're a full-timer you need a place to take a shower in your van i'm gonna i'm gonna
clean all this up just wanted to show you that it does have a shower head here with shower curtain
and it does work everything has been tested underneath this section right here like you
could sit down and take a shower but underneath that is where the water heater is stored and like
i said right now i can't get that guy to fire on it's got the original fetford toilet here i don't
know if we want to peek in here no i'm going to be replacing this toilet i don't like these plastic
toilets for full timers and i want to get an elongated porcelain with a sprayer
this has got more storage here for cords and stuff like that i'm still trying to decide where i want
to put a stealth litter box but this is a huge big closet back here where you can hang clothes
i think i'm going to use it for storage actually i haven't really decided yet
this uh penguin 2 low profile air conditioner kind of works but not really more on that later
the windows all have shades that can be pulled up for uh privacy the only thing is i didn't get
one for the front windshield however they had one because there's buttons and stuff where it would
have attached previously but i don't have it right now so yeah i just wanted to show you the floor
plan of the camper van here so you can get an idea for where we're starting from and more later on
how i'm gonna use it and everything but uh this one's ready to go this one's ready to live in
full-time for one person and two cats this is a lot to take in for my viewers
believe me i will have a major video coming out here very very soon explaining everything i mean
everything in detail so don't worry just wanted to get this out of the way and say i have it i
have secured it how i'm going to get it back because there's a lot of detail still
to come and hopefully we'll have it all figured out in the next video but
uh here's my camper van camper van life here we go all right guys see you in a few days
me