At the garage we had the space to experiment with different projects and two-phase power which lent itself nicely to TIG welding, which made tank fabrication way easier. It was a nice place to tear apart vehicles and then build them back up. The most interesting vehicle I’ve ever owned, and perhaps ever created, was a turbo-diesel BMW motorhome which was designed by Delorean, shortly after the DMC-1, made famous in Back to the Future. The BMW RV could travel through time at one second per second which was cool, but no flux-capacitor for going backwards, or warping the space-time continuum beyond the rules of General Relativity.

‘Marty McFry’ as we called him had, this hinging pop-top roof, which in theory was a nice feature but it would leak, and every time it was up I wished it was always that tall on the inside. So one day I took a battery-powered sawzall to the junk yard, cut the entire roof of a Ford Econoline van, flipped it into my truck and brought it back to the shop.

Using the lift I got the roof to the height I liked, backed the RV underneath it and welded it to the sidewalls. You can see the progress in these photos below, one with it tacked in place and one with the sheathing on and crazy bondo. Once it was done, I painted it white and had a really weird custom motorhome with plenty of headroom and a cozy wood burning stove.

The oversized, plexiglass window could hinge outward to create an awning. This would be used as a spot to do product sampling during one last Clif Bar tour, with Jeremy Jones and Mike Basich.