Richard's Homemade Motorhome
Richard's Homemade Motorhome was an invention of Richard Hammond's that was constructed for a challenge that was featured during the fifteenth series of Top Gear. The motorhome was made from an old Land Rover.
Design[]
Richard's Motorhome was inspired by the RV. The car itself was a bed and a transporter for the many panels that made up the actual home. A toilet was installed in place of the passenger's seat. Once properly constructed, the panels formed assorted rooms like a games room, library, and bedroom; a series of plastic panels were used to construct a roof.
Road Test[]
After constructing their motorhomes, the presenters were told to drive themselves to Cornwall for a 'camping holiday'. During the journey, Richard quickly discovered a flaw in his design; having had to cut out some of the Land Rover's body so that the panels would fit, this created a draft that Richard found unbearable. Making matters worse, the Land Rover's heater didn't work properly. At one point, the presenters were forced to pull over as Richard's panels had collapsed. Eventually, they reached the campsite, although Jeremy got a warning light on the dashboard and was left behind. Richard began to assemble his house, but James and Jeremy eventually got bored and went for dinner at a pub; they returned later that evening to find Hammond still working. He eventually finished it, but found it hard to sleep as the plastic panels used for the roof rattled in the wind. Their next challenge was to drive to a beach and get changed into a wetsuit inside their motorhomes. Richard was forced to 'steal' a child's tent to get changed in because he had left all the panels at his campsite, leaving a big gap in the sides of his motorhome. After their surfing lessons were interrupted, and Jeremy's car got stuck, they were instructed to cook a meal in their motorhomes using nothing but what they could buy from a petrol station. Richard decided to make the dessert, planning to create a cross between Eton Mess and trifle using bread as a substitute for sponge cake fingers, but was stopped before he could finish when his motorhome caught fire; the presenters were unsuccessful in extinguishing all of the flames. The next day, after evicting some sheep who crashed for the night in the remains, Hammond, Clarkson and May drove themselves to a 'beauty spot' by a cliff. Whilst Jeremy got an ice cream from a shop at the foot of the cliff, Richard and James hatched a plan to park his car right on the edge, preventing him from moving it; their plan failed and Jeremy's motorhome was destroyed when it went over the edge.
