Who hasn’t dreamed of going to school on Otto’s bus? Yes, that yellow school bus that picked up Bart and Lisa Simpson at the front door and took him a brainless Friendly and fully trained driver.
Go to school… or live an adventure. Because in the United States and Canada there is a new movement in the camper world. It’s about taking a school bus, transforming its entire interior and camperizing it.
Or rather than camperizing it, we should say… transforming it into a complete home on wheels.
With wheels it’s already crazy
The trend is called skoolie and has gained strength in North America, our colleagues explain to us. Motorpassion. The system is simple: take a school bus that was in the scrapyard and transform it into a caravan. With the difference that camperizing this type of automobile means converting them into authentic mini chalets with wheels.
The result is what is shown to us, for example, by the Instagram account known as @time_to_go_adventure. Its protagonists are specialized in these school bus conversions in small homes. and the photographs (and the videos you can see at this link) They are spectacular.
The movement has its own specialized places on the network. in this forumFor example, users explain their projects and present their new developments. The result is vehicles with huge kitchens (with stoves included), sofa, closets and even a bedroom. The space is so wide that, as in the case of this videothe possibilities are enormous.
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The companions of MotorpassionThey even give us some of the favorite projects running on the network. From the Bumpin Bus until the Trebventurepassing through Bluenose Bus either The Hive Drive. In all cases you have the Instagram or YouTube account linked in the names. And in all cases you will see that they are projects that could compete for a place in some interior design magazines.
The projects They are very varied. There are those who cook it and eat it themselves and there are, of course, those who prefer to order it from a company and let someone else get their hands dirty. For example, there is the case of Live Simply either The Mayes Teamcompanies that transform the interior of vehicles by completely customizing them and, in some cases, even searching for them themselves.
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The project, yes, is not cheap. Entering the process does not cost much because if you dive through the houses of american auctions You can find very damaged vehicles for a few thousand dollars. Between 3,500 and 6,000 dollars it is possible to find some and if the problems are inside, there is no problem because the idea is to empty them completely.
From here, things get complicated. Least expensive in money is, obviously, using recycled materials and doing it yourself. The most convenient, simple and expensive thing is to order it or opt for new, custom-made materials. In that case we can go for more than 60,000 dollars. As with any hobby, there is always something you can continue spending your money on.
There is another advantage for this trend to have spread. And the license to access these vehicles is relatively simple. In Europe to drive vehicles with a mass greater than 3,500 kg we have to forget about the driving license but in the United States the standard license It allows you to handle vehicles that weigh more than 11,000 kg. As this camper bus has no commercial purpose and is empty of seats, no additional license is needed.
Photo | Denise Leon and Simon Maisch
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