Gen 1 DC w/GFC?

Any of you folks have a GFC on your DC? Likes/dislikes?

 

WTF is GFC?

 

Go fast camper. https://gofastcampers.com/

 

They're great if you enjoy tent camping. I have used them on friends trucks, and it's not my cup of tea, but many people like them. For the price a stripped down truck camper is a better buy.

 

GFC = 'Geezus Flippin Christ' . . . You see the price tag on those things?
Color Me Old . . . but a really nice 3-Season North Face tent and a sleeping pad seems a tad more versatile & an $-ton cheaper.
I just don't understand monkeying around on top of my truck just to sleep, then having to piggy-back that thing around town on my truck.
I guess it must fit a niche cause I see a fair amount of them rolling around in So Cal.
Different Strokes.

 

Pretty much only good for one thing: camping with one or two people who can climb into the bed and then climb up into the tent itself, addtl climb down and out every morning. I was in queue for a SuperPacific and decided against it, lost out on the deposit of a few hundred bucks but saved the rest of my money.

Keep in mind you may also have to upgrade your rear suspension with all the weight added on because it's the weight of the camper + whatever you may be hauling around in the bed itself. Climbing in/out of a wedge camper is awkward but doable. Also, since its a wedge shape you'll have a sloped ceiling with gradually decreasing height inside toward the hinge. Guess where your head will be when sleeping? Unless you can maneuver yourself to toot-scoot around and put your head near the back of the truck after you climb in. And if you have a second person they'll also have to have room to maneuver in and lay down. If your feet are at the hinged section with very little room they'll be squashed and twisted sideways since there won't be any height for them to just "lay there" toes up.

There is no latching mechanism to "lock" or prop the wedge open. So when you're sleeping you'll have a big aluminum/fiberglass panel hinged open right above you held up only by 1 or 2 gas struts. The safest? Maybe not. If the strut fails...Head in hinge: head squashed. Head at tailgate end? Head majorly squashed.

Also you'll have to make sure you park on a level surface because at the height you'll be at, above the entire truck itself, you'll definitely be feeling any sort of uneven tilt or incline. And you'll want where you park to be stable as well because you'll definitely feel any tilting motions caused by unstable ground or strong wind.

Just some considerations for you.

 

You need to be short to enjoy one of those. Maybe if they overhung the roof it wouldn’t be so bad.

 

They do overhang the roof, I think overall platform length is 7.5-8ft

 

I don't get the want or need to sleep in a tent six feet in the air. I drink too many beers while camping to do that. I would forget I'm six feet in the air when I wake up in the middle of the night needing to piss out some of that beer