>>1221525>>1221234People who want to plan everything are trying to buy a sprinter van, mod it to be able to live comfortably in a 3d modeling program and calculate the cost of living for a year - sometimes before they even have the money to complete their project. Or they're buying a prius, planning to live in a city with their showers and meals and everything already mapped out before they go sleep in their car the first night.
People who plan to learn most of it as they go are probably already looking for an old van or something to live in, often out of necessity. They'll live out of a tiny car if that's all they've got when they decide to make the leap. If not out of necessity, these people probably understand that jumping into this like the formerly mentioned group is essentially like those backpackers who show up at the AT with the entire thing planned with food drops and all the super duper gear they needed but they've only ever camped in their backyard and never hiked a real trail in their life. Far better to live and learn than go turbo efficiency autist before you even know what it's actually like to live this way.
I actually had someone call me while I was selling my RV and tell me they were coming to look at mine because they'd just gone 3 hours to look at another RV only to find out the materials inside weren't faux, someone put hardwood cabinets and used other high quality material in a remodel causing it to be way more heavy than normal. Even the newer rvs up to a point are made with the same light and shitty materials, often fabric over pressboard and plywood underneath everything.
If you're going to build from the ground up in an old van, why not start with a least something and do it section by section. Remodeling the inside was my plan for this summer, wouldnt have taken much effort to really Polish it up.
