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Things are a little quiet around here. Might play around with the layout of the site again. Classifieds not really creating any interest, but will leave it in place for now. Looking for suggestions for article topics too.

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Have added a free classifieds tool so you can list your housetruck or housebus (or gidgetry) for sale. Check the Classifieds menu.

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housetruck.co.nz

www.housetruck.co.nz A place to sell and buy housetrucks, housebuses and associated items. This site is up for sale on TradeMe for (buy now) $35000, or a start reserve of $3500. Ranks #1 in Google for “housetruck” and “house truck”. I see the Mack advertised as found a new owner!

Tales of Space and Time

awww, this is a cute looking Bedford. Built by Roger Beck, go and read the interview and check out the interior pics as well… The Morisons exhibited their self-sufficient wooden house-truck, customized from a decommissioned fire engine and containing, next to a stove and pot plants, a library of apocalypse-themed fiction. Tales of Space and [...]

House truck motors

Hi guys and girls, my parents in-law have a J5 bedford house truck that i’ve been givin the job of re-powering with a Diesel engine. Looking at an Isuzu 6BD1 engine. Has anyone done this conversion into a bedford or can anyone point me in the direction of someone who has that can give me [...]

HOUSETRUCKS

HOUSETRUCK.CO.NZ For housetruck and housebus enthusiasts to buy and sell or trade homes on wheels and accessories If you are looking for housetrucks, housebuses, or related paraphernalia, check this site out first. It’d be good to see it take off and provide the source for listing your goods or vehicles. Give it a go

The Woodfired Gas Producer

Never pay for diesel for your housetruck again… I was watching the ol’ Discovery channel t’other night when I saw this programme on earth engines (or somesuch) and these quite eccentric fullahs were building a ute powered by a wood burner. I went looking on the web, but couldn’t find anything on that particular vehicle, [...]

Rolling Homes, the Art of Building a Housetruck

Let your artistic talents soar, build your own home on wheels. Way back in the early 70′s, when all the hippies were making their statement by going a different way, alternative lifestyles were the in thing. Many did exotic paint jobs on old school buses, and hit the road to the next commune. Others combined [...]

A love affair with the little Morrie

Here’s an oldie but a goodie from the Wairarapa Times, dated back in ‘ought-two about a german fella, Reiner Schoenbrunn, an authority on Morrie Minors. The best bit of course, is about the building up of an old workhorse Morrie Minor flat deck into a housetruck with real class. What is published is the cream … [...]

The House Truck – HolidayHomes

Now, if you want a housetruck experience without the having to drive anywhere, then this is for you. I plan on trying it myself. Holiday Home in Wainui, Nelson / Golden Bay. A lovingly restored and beautifully presented house truck with fantastic sea- and mountain views in a private bush location. Step back in time [...]

The Birth Of A House Truck

The Birth Of A House Truck pictures from home remodeling photos on webshots. Check out this build The Birth Of A House Truck

Erics housetruck

Check out this vid. Its a little choppy (thanks youtube), and you don’t get to see a lot of detail, but the workmanship is top notch. I’m thinking something like this from NZ would be a goer. Anyone ever done anything like this here in NZ? Documented your build on film?