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CRAFT PUNK

When building campers for a living is your thing, the hardest part of the game is keeping one step ahead of the competition. Carving a niche would be an incredibly sensible thing to do, and that’s pretty much what Darren DuRose of DCD Transporters in Suffolk has done. Rather than follow a basic A, B, C option package, each camper built by DCD is pretty much unique and crafted to an individual customer’s own requirements. His latest creation, this sleek 2018 medium wheelbase Crafter, is straight from the top of his own, motorsport infused head. It’s not so much thinking outside the box, rather taking the same thinking from the little box and transposing it to the bigger box.

“It’s an idea I’ve been toying with on and off for a while,” he says. “Since converting my own T5, I’ve been building the business quite heavily over the last two years and so it had to be done in between customer vans.” The presentable version

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