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Sportsmobile is a company that provides custom after market conversions for full size vans. Most vans are fully converted to type B RV motor-homes. [1] The Sportsmobile company was founded in 1961 by Curtis and Charles Borskey [2] and now has three locations: Huntington, Indiana, Austin, Texas and Fresno, California.
The company carries out modern camper conversions as well as supplying spare parts and full restorations of the classic models. Although the Dormobile name was primarily associated with motor homes based on the front-engined Bedford CA , conversions were also offered of competitor vehicles such as this 1965 Morris J4 .
The acceptable power range is 65 to 125 hp (48 to 93 kW) and the standard engine used is the 40 hp (30 kW) Ford Model A automotive conversion powerplant. [ 1 ] The St Croix Pietenpol Aircamper has a typical empty weight of 650 lb (290 kg) and a gross weight of 1,100 lb (500 kg), giving a useful load of 450 lb (200 kg).
The "Suburban" name was also used on GM's fancy 2-door GMC 100 series pickup trucks from 1955 to 1959, called the Suburban Pickup, which was similar to the Chevrolet Cameo Carrier, but it was dropped at the same time as Chevy's Cameo in March 1958 when GM released the new all-steel "Fleetside" bed option replacing the Cameo/Suburban Pickup ...
Introduced as the successor for the rear-engine Corvair Corvan/Greenbrier, the model line also replaced the panel van configuration of the Chevrolet Suburban. The vehicle was sold both in passenger van and cargo van configurations as well as a cutaway van chassis that served as the basis for a variety of custom applications.
The Volkswagen Westfalia Camper was a conversion of the Volkswagen Type 2, and then, the Volkswagen Type 2 (T3), sold from the early 1950s to 2003. Volkswagen subcontracted the modifications to the company Westfalia-Werke in Rheda-Wiedenbrück .
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The Holdsworth Motorhomes Company was a UK-based campervan conversion company running from 1968 to the mid-1990s, founded by Richard Holdsworth. [1] It was one of the first UK campervan conversion companies, developing to hold contracts with British Leyland for the Sherpa, and the first UK company to hold approval from Volkswagen.