About us.

Based on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Wild Monkey Campers was formed in early 2019.

The company owner, Ben Culley has worked for over 20 years in the custom design and building industry.

We use digital design and CNC machining techniques as well as some traditional hand made techniques to ensure a high end product throughout our campers.

We are more than happy to discuss any requirements you may have.

Design and Construction.

We take great pride in the design and construction of our teardrop campers.

We design using CAD software and then covert the drawings into cut files ready to be cut out on our CNC router. This ensures that all the parts are accurate and fit together with tight tolerances.

We also design and make our own parts out of machine grade aluminium and acrylic including the roof rack brackets, gas bottle holder, gas strut brackets, decal badges and switch panel bezels. This gives us complete control in how our teardrop camper trailers look and perform.

All aluminium parts are powder coated to a durable finish which is highly resistant to scratching and chipping.

Birch Plywood.

The main construction material for our teardrop camper trailers is WISA Birch plywood imported from Finland. This plywood is made up of 1.4mm thick laminations making it a very strong and stable material. Once the parts have been cut out they are sanded and three coats of satin marine lacquer are applied before it is put together using epoxy glue and stainless steel screws.

Chassis.

Our Chassis are made from fully welded box section steel and are coated with ‘Raptor Coatings’ a very hard wearing product especially designed for this purpose. We use leaf spring suspension, 14” wheels and fit electric brakes if required depending on the tow vehicles towing/braked capacity.

You can watch a short video on this product under the Videos section on our website.

12 volt DC and 240 volt AC Electrical systems.

We have chosen to use Enerdrive for our preferred 12 volt DC battery charger, 240 volt AC battery charger and the 125Amp hour Lithium battery which is the one of best on the market. The advantage of using components from one manufacturer is that they all work together in unison with no problems. Our systems are set up for the battery to be charged from the tow vehicle whilst on the move, 240 volt AC mains power at home or on a camp site or via a portable solar panel which is plugged into an Anderson socket situated on the front of the campers ‘A’ frame. The Lithium battery technology allows the full power of the battery to be used as apposed to the AGM type battery where they can only be used to 50% of their rated power. This means in order to have the same amount of power available using AGM batteries you would need twice as many. Another advantage of Lithium batteries is that they weigh 50% of an AGM battery saving not only weight in the camper trailer but space too.

You can watch a short video on Enerdrive products under the Videos section on our website.

Teardrop History.

A teardrop trailer also known as a teardrop camper is a streamlined, compact, light weight travel trailer, which gets it’s name from it’s teardrop profile.

The first teardrop trailer designs incorporated standard 8’ x 4’ (2440 x 1220mm) sheets of plywood with hardwood spars to span the roof sheets.

In the early 1930’s Teardrop campers evolved and became extremely popular in the USA after World War II. The depression was over and the war had given the economy a large boost. People wanted to go on holidays.

In the early 1930’s and 1940’s vehicles had small engines. The teardrop camper was light weight and could be towed behind any family car.

The popularity of teardrop campers continued through to the 1950’s. They were popular for the DIY enthusiast that wanted to build their own teardrop campers with their own hands.

Today teardrop campers are built in small custom workshops to order.

Frequently Ask Questions.

You may well have some questions regarding our teardrop campers. We have a page dedicated to this and if you have a question that is not covered, please contact us and we will endeavour to answer you as soon as possible.

Financing one of our Teardrop campers.

We have a range of finance options available through AAA Finance and Insurance. Click here to go to our partner page and find out why AAA Finance is best for your investment.

Contact our local representative on the details below:

Office: 07 5493 1222
Fax: 07 5493 5857
Email: enquire@aaafinance.com.au
www.aaafinance.com.au

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