3 builds · Salt Lake City, UT
Food and Vending
Vintage campers, converted to earn their keep
Riveted trailers like Airstream, or vintage canned ham style campers like Shasta, make great traffic generators for business. Their construction and designs are, however, as vast as global cuisine — which means customizing vintage campers for industry requires expertise, just what the team at Reparadise possesses.
If your company is searching for the next medium to deliver services from — merchandising, a hair or clothing boutique, street fare, or any other exceptional use for a vintage camper — we are your specialists.
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What we convert
Canned ham trailers, Airstreams and other riveted aluminium, motorhomes and RVs, pop-up campers, and panel vans. Each shell brings its own problems: a canned ham has almost no structure to hang equipment from, an Airstream's skin is doing structural work, and an older motorhome usually needs its chassis and electrical addressed before anything else happens.
The vehicle you already own is often worth converting. So is one we help you find — we deal in vintage units and know which shells are worth the money.
What a conversion involves
A vending build is a full interior rebuild with a commercial workload on top. Most projects come down to the same sequence: strip the shell and assess what's actually left of it, repair structure and skin, then design the service layout around how you'll work in the space and where your customers will stand.
From there it's the systems — electrical sized for your equipment rather than for camping, water supply and waste, ventilation, propane or induction, and cabinetry and counters that survive daily commercial use rather than a fortnight a year.
Requirements for serving the public vary by state, county and city, and they drive real decisions about layout, finishes, water and ventilation. Bring us your jurisdiction's requirements early and we'll design the build around them.
Why a vintage shell
A modern concession trailer is a box. A restored 1971 Shasta or a polished Airstream is the reason someone crosses the car park to look at you. For brands that trade on attention — pop-ups, brand activations, mobile boutiques — the vehicle is the marketing budget.
The work above includes brand experience vehicles, bar trailers and mobile retail. Same shop, same fabrication, different brief.
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Every build above started as a conversation. Tell us what you're after and we'll tell you what it takes.