Marta and Chester's Maleficent Adventures

Delica #3 camperizing

Marta went to Japan for a month, so I bought another Delica, replacing our 1993 Pajero. I can stop any time I want.

Delican looks very aggressive compared to our new acquisition. Surprising what 120 lbs of steel and a few inches of lift can do.
The frame for the bed. All 1/2” plywood
Installed in the van. Notice that we don’t use a subfloor.
Making steel brackets to hold the frame to the wheel wells. This is slow work making custom brackets.
Making the flip up portion of the bedframe, from foam and fibreglass. This is wicked light and strong.
Foam board installed. This flips up easily to allow access underneath the front of the bed frame.
Making the pantry shelves from 5 mm plywood
This plywood is way too thin to take a nail so glueing is a bit of a challenge
Coming together nicely 
Test fit of pantry on top of the bedframe. Now to make a couple steel brackets.
Building up shelving units
I use crazy glue to hold the pieces in place and the serious glueing is done with epoxy mix with wood flour
Surprisingly strong
A stretchy fabric sock is pulled over the shelves and glued in place
And we cut holes in the fabric. This is much easier than putting a door on every shelf.
The bed in our first delica (Delicat, currently waiting for us in Baja) folded up into a sofa, but we found that we never needed it.
The foot of the bed lifts up to allow access to storage underneath. Backpacks just push underneath here. there’s about 30 cm of clearance.
Shelving is on the driver side wall
Movie mode. The headboard of the bed folds up to turn the bed into a futon. More comfortable to watch movies.
Kitchen. As much as we loved our Pajero, having the hatch as a roof is far superior
Fully deployed for cooking with a 12 V 30 quart fridge
Chester Fitchett