Dirt Sunrise: Living in a poptop 80 Series

[DirtSunrise]

My wife and I have been on the road for the last year and a half so far through Central and South America.
We've been posting videos of our travels each week and I can post them here if anyone would like to watch, but I don't want to be too much of a self promoter.
Here's the truck. We cut the roof off of it and redid the interior just before we left, but we've had the truck for many years before:













The interior, but of course it's filled with junk now:




Here is a walkthrough of the truck:
https://youtu.be/oYsMwzUfM5I

[DirtSunrise]

We do a video each week, but I don't want to spam the forum so if I should stop posting I will.
Here is our 65th episode. This week we're in Ecuador and stuck at our camp in some mud which requires some effort to get out of.

https://youtu.be/1N4K5zlqe9Q

[GRJ78]

Pics & Videos are welcome!
Very nice build and a pleasure to watch, thanks for sharing!

Keep cruisin‘

Flo

[DirtSunrise]

Pics & Videos are welcome!
Very nice build and a pleasure to watch, thanks for sharing!

Keep cruisin‘

Flo

Thanks Flo!

This week we head south into Peru where the border guards are listening to Metallica. Haha.

https://youtu.be/54KkEgH-CRU

[netzmeister]

Go on, Tim, post your videos here in this thread...we'll be glad to see more!

[Muddy]

Hey Tim ,
Nice Rig and cool Video.
Thanks for sharing.

Take care

Ralph

[dunrai]

Hi Tim,
nice to meet you in Chapada dos Guimarares/Brasil and here at the Bushtaxi-Family .
Enjoy your trip and tanke care
Rainer and Dunja

[DirtSunrise]

Hi Tim,
nice to meet you in Chapada dos Guimarares/Brasil and here at the Bushtaxi-Family .
Enjoy your trip and tanke care
Rainer and Dunja

Nice to meet you both. Safe travels and we'll keep and eye out for you in Chile.

Hey Tim ,
Nice Rig and cool Video.
Thanks for sharing.

Take care

Ralph

Thanks Ralph!

Go on, Tim, post your videos here in this thread...we'll be glad to see more!

Thanks! Will do.

[DirtSunrise]

The last few days of camping has been reminding us a lot of Arizona.

[DirtSunrise]

This week we explore some lonely shelf roads and wait hours for construction to be complete on some not so lonely roads! Viva Peru!
https://youtu.be/340Y_PT3s6w

[DirtSunrise]

This week we keep exploring Peru, but nearly burn down the truck when a wire we ran to the back of our truck wears through the sheathing and arcs onto our brake line. Always exciting!
https://youtu.be/EnuSnePpaj0

[DirtSunrise]

Now for something completely different. Ride along with us for an hour. No cuts or edits, just Goose, Kelsey and I (Timoteo) crossing a mountain pass in Peru that the locals told us was no longer drivable.
We weren't sure it would be doable, but in the end it was the prettiest track of the trip!.
https://youtu.be/HDU-uM3QAZw

[FJ40 GARAGE]

Did you mount the dashcam on a gimbal?

Always good to see that some rules are international and the co has to step out for rock rolling and other work that needs to be done.
Did you mount a long range gas tank and if so what brand, i am thinking to put one under my 80 but dislike the high priced australian tanks. (Thought about a usual van or pickup truck tank.)

Thanks for your videos and allowing us to be part of your travels!

[Colt]

Very nice videos and a wonderful journey! I`ve subscribed to your channel and am looking forward to more videos!

[DirtSunrise]

Did you mount the dashcam on a gimbal?

Always good to see that some rules are international and the co has to step out for rock rolling and other work that needs to be done.
Did you mount a long range gas tank and if so what brand, i am thinking to put one under my 80 but dislike the high priced australian tanks. (Thought about a usual van or pickup truck tank.)

Thanks for your videos and allowing us to be part of your travels!

I'm a lucky guy. We're interchangeable whether we're winching, driving or "improving the trail" haha!
We built our own. There should be a video on it on our channel. Basically it's an 18+ gallon box where the spare tire once went using an Australian dual filler neck.