2003 Ford E350 / 7.3L Powerstroke / Quigley 4WD / Sportsmobile Penthouse Top

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2003 Ford E350 Econoline / 7.3L Powerstroke / Quigley 4WD / Sportsmobile Manual Penthouse Top

Asking $79,082
Condition: Outstanding! 247,000 mi
Sold new in California (now in Colorado) and spent most of its life in the mountain west.
Meticulously maintained with no rust.
Sportsmobile penthouse top, interior conversion & new paint completed in 2017
Seats & sleeps 4.

Why Sell? With kids now leaving the house (large van not needed) & with aging parents still actively crop farming, I’m in need of a full-size truck. Thus, I’m offering up our outstanding 2003 E350 adventure van for sale.

Exterior
-Sportsmobile North installed manual penthouse top (most reliable)
-New paint (Jeep 2013 Commando Green)
-New undercoating & Raptor bed liner on lower 18” and on UJoint front bumper, Aluminess Rock Sliders and Aluminess rear bumper
-4 additional large windows, 3 of which have ventilation sliders (thus great cross ventilation)
-New Windshield
-New door gaskets
-Custom grill with winter cover
-UJoint front bumper w/ MaxTrax mounts
-New LED tail lights
-Hella Rallye 4000 Lights
-Hella Back Up lights
-Hella Supertone horns (sounds like a moderately excited Herbie)
-Baja Designs LED A Pillar cube lights HID Headlights (yet to be installed & included in sale)
-Aluminess ladder, surfboard / paddleboard rack, rock sliders, rear bumper
-Custom cargo door mosquito netting
-Rear suspension Air Bags
-17” Mickey Thompson Wheels LT285/70R17 BFG AT KO2 10 ply w/ less than 10,000 miles of use on them
-Ujoint Rear Extended Body Van Skid Plate

Interior
-Dynamat sound matting and insulation installed (dash / floors / walls)
-New door footwell pans & WeatherTech front floor mats
-Alpine audio system w/ Apple Car Play, backup camera & auxiliary lighting control system
-Rear aux speakers
-Custom gauge cluster (Trans Temp / Pyrometer / Fuel Pressure / Boost)
-Corbeau seats (4 x) and 4 point harness seatbelts Driver, and all passenger seats fully swivel
-Loncoin flooring
-Dinette converts to full size bed Penthouse bed
-Custom kitchen and dinette cabinetry by Gossling Woodworking (the same company that constructed the NASCAR Featherlite race car trailer interiors for decades). Solid wood drawers with marine grade poplar plywood. Much higher quality & better ergonomic design than stock SMB interior. Microwave & inverter not included in sale.
-Interior installation completed by RV Interiors (Denver)
-Custom countertops and dinette table top
-SMEV Sink w/ flip up glass top
-MSR dromedary bags used for water supply
-Engle Refrigerator
-Thetford cartridge porta potty in custom built in cabinet
-Tom’s Fahrzeugtechnik dinette table hardware
-Stainless steel four propane burner stove
-Flexible LED spot lighting throughout
-Multiple USB charging ports throughout
-CO Detector / Alarm
-HeatShield window shades for all windows
-Commercial grade fire extinguisher
-UJoint first generation underfloor storage box mounted in rear floor
-Mac’s Tie Downs at numerous points on rear walls for baggage attachment

Electrical
-Flaming River chassis battery cutoff switch
-Deka 8D AGM house battery housed in UJoint underfloor storage
-Blue Sea house battery charging / isolation relay
-Blue Sea house fuse block
-Zamp solar panel & house battery charging port

Engine
-Reliable and desirable 7.3L Powerstroke Diesel
-Block Heater
-4” Custom exhaust
-New turbo installed in 2015

Suspension / Mechanical
-Factory installed Quigley 4WD package
-Tow Package
-Power windows and door locks
-Warn Manual Locking Front Hubs
-Transmission rebuilt w/ heavy duty internal support option OCT 2018

Delivery
Will consider delivery to all of North America
303.898.3333
bboeding@hotmail.com

 

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Exterior photos

 

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Interior photos

 

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In use photos

 

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Dash / speedometer / gauge cluster detail

 

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House electrical and exterior lighting

 

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Dinette, interior door and door foot well photos

 

[MAJoplin]

I love this build! Very well put together with an interior that certainly stands out from the rest.

 

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Detail photos of Alpine system

 

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Roof and SMB Penthouse top photos

 

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Front pax side front suspension and frame rail detail photos

 

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Drive train detail photos

 

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Drivers side frame rail and suspension detail photos

 

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Why Build?
Ultimately the reason we decided to build vs purchase a stock SMB was that we had rented several newer SMBs and were unimpressed with the quality of the interior fit / finish / ergonomics. The interior of both rented SMBs felt like a dark cave, due to lack of rear windows. We camp in pretty remote places & I like to be able to sit up in bed and enjoy the amazing (and changing) view. Both rental SMBs had numerous interior electrical problems and many spots where the cabinet particle board construction was readily apparent.

I did love the simplicity of the SMB manual top and SMB North was the only place that still installed the manual tops.

Worse yet, one of the E350 gas V-10 rented SMBs left us stranded at the top of Monarch Pass, CO for 6 hrs while we attempted to get the vehicle running again.

I also came very close to pulling the trigger on a new Sprinter purchase (thinking I was going to save on build time). Ultimately I was dissuaded from that after running across a local Coloradan that was literally giving away his work Sprinter due to mechanical reasons. My next door neighbors have a 2019 4WD Sprinter that has been towed from their driveway no less than 4 times, so their purchase validated my fears.

So that's the why on why we chose the 7.3L Diesel vs and other engine & why we elected to have the interior professionally completed by RV Interiors here in Denver (installing cabinets from Gossling Woodworking).

Now here are some additional photos of the build process ---- >

 

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SMB North Penthouse top install

 

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SMB North Penthouse top install and interior mock-ups

 

[scuba-ClassB]

Wow-- such a cool build. I also went the "build" route, but after all the thought I put into my choices, it's still hard not to be envious of the design decisions you went with-- that's a lot of usable interior space. PM'd you some questions.

 

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Additional interior photos

 

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Additional interior build photos

 

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Additional interior photos

Update: Now asking $75,800