r/nextfuckinglevel • u/SmoothSun6676 • 16h ago

The Transformation of a Van

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u/kinkyonthe_loki69 15h ago

These people might not even be uber rich.... just well off in suburbia. It seems like dude has practical skills and could easily be a carpenter.

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u/Fermit 15h ago

Yeah apparently the couple does this professionally. I don’t know what i expect when i came into the comments but holy fuck it definitely wasn’t half the comments crying about these unbelievably rich people who can afford to modify a van.

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u/Eris_AppleOfDiscord 15h ago

A van like this would cost 150 - 180k. It is a very expensive toy.

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u/powerhammerarms 9h ago

That's a severe overestimation.

Check this out

And this

And this

You could pay $150k for a brand new pre-built camper van.

For a brand new barebones cargo van, maybe 60k (80k if you want high-roof w/AWD). And maybe another 25k in materials to mod it if you're doing all the work yourself. That's about comparable to what this couple did. They likely paid far less than that since they do this all the time.

You could easily find a van that's 5 years old for 30k or less and do all the work with reasonable materials and get all in under 50k. Very easily.

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u/Vandilbg 8h ago

Crazy thing to me is a class C motorhome on an F250 chassis only runs about 90k on the low end new.