{"id":65270,"date":"2022-10-03T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?p=65270"},"modified":"2024-03-25T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T15:20:17","slug":"military-truck-turned-tiny-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/showcase\/2022\/10\/military-truck-turned-tiny-home.html","title":{"rendered":"Military Truck Turned Tiny Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Yes, you\u2019re reading that right. Rich purchased a \u201954 Dodge M-152 that had retired from the Canadian Armed Forces. He paid roughly $9,000 for the non-functional Dodge classic but reportedly spent more than $20,000, and over two years, on the repairs. He kept a handful of the original parts but everything else is on the truck is completely custom. Rich, a former photographer, has been living in the 48-sq.-ft. space for four years while he travels and takes portraits of families in homeless shelters. He spends most of his time outside of the truck, as the writing on the wall will tell you, but has built himself a cozy place to sleep with food storage space and a very tiny fridge. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"This \u201954 Dodge M-152 tiny home is one man\u2019s dream come true. (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.autoevolution.com\/news\/this-single-happy-man-has-built-himself-a-tiny-home-out-of-an-old-military-truck-199528.html\" target=\"_blank\">This \u201954 Dodge M-152 tiny home is one man\u2019s dream come true.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"575\" height=\"350\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65276\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65276\" class=\"wp-image-65276\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"339\" height=\"386\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth1.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65277\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65277\" class=\"wp-image-65277\"\/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"757\" height=\"449\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth3.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65273\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65273\" class=\"wp-image-65273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth3.png 757w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth3-576x342.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 757px) 100vw, 757px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"406\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth5.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65274\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65274\" class=\"wp-image-65274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth5.png 722w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth5-576x324.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"745\" height=\"688\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth4.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65275\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65275\" class=\"wp-image-65275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth4.png 745w, https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth4-576x532.png 576w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 745px) 100vw, 745px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"515\" height=\"336\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/ttth2.png\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"65272\" data-link=\"http:\/\/www.dodgegarage.com\/news-api\/?attachment_id=65272\" class=\"wp-image-65272\"\/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, you\u2019re reading that right. Rich purchased a \u201954 Dodge M-152 that had retired from the Canadian Armed Forces. He paid roughly $9,000 for the non-functional Dodge classic but reportedly spent more than $20,000, and over two years, on the repairs. He kept a handful of the original parts but everything else is on the truck is completely custom. Rich, a former photographer, has been living in the 48-sq.-ft. space for four years while he travels and takes portraits of families in homeless shelters. He spends most of his time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":65271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2621,638],"tags":[2948],"class_list":["post-65270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gallery","category-showcase","tag-dodge-classics"],"acf":[],"custom_fields":{"post_thumbnail_image":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/truck-turned-tiny-home.jpg","icon_selection":"article","external_link":"","featured_article":[],"upload_background_image":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65270"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65325,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65270\/revisions\/65325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.api.dodgegarage.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}