Our Story
The founders of Free Spirit Campers, Dave and Sue Timmermans, have enjoyed 37 years of travel in the great Australian outdoors, exploring, camping, four-wheel driving, and on every Aussie adventure developing a great understanding of what is required to explore our backyard and beyond, in comfort.
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Back in 1996, after their first child David built an aluminium roof top camper, which enabled further outback adventures.
2002 saw a composite roof top tent development which then turned into the first family camper.
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2010 to 2017
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Now with extensive engineering experience and qualifications to match, along with many years of experience, David set out to develop the first FSC hybrid camper.
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See chassis testing below
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Prototype Features
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Cross arm independent air suspension
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Internal/external kitchen
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Inside shower and toilet
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Extremely small & lightweight
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East-West pull out bed
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5 Years of extensive testing and use over some of Australia's toughest tracks proved the chasis and suspension to be tough and worthy.
2018 to 2021
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Always striving for the best, the DN5 was developed. We focus on innovation, not happy until we achieve a camper that simply ticks all the boxes, adding under-seat shower and toilet, a permanent North South bed, a unique nose cone, including an even better inside outside/kitchen plus more.
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All this in a very compact, light tough package that you can take to remote places. It was not easy and was difficult to achieve, now that it's done though we have set legacy that will inspire the rest.
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2022 to 2024
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Purpose built facility for manufacture of the DN5.
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