Basil's Garage · Vista, California
Contact Us
Different projects need different conversations. Here's how to reach the right one.
Shopping for a new camper?
Just reach out — Contact us via the form below, call, or stop by the showroom. No appointment, no charge, no pressure. We're an authorized Four Wheel Camper and Go Fast Camper dealer and we'll walk you through every option.
Free · No consult needed
Looking to have something installed, modified, or repaired?
Submit a work request below. We'll review it, send you a quote, and get you on the schedule — most jobs don't need a sit-down. For bigger planning conversations (full overland builds, multi-system upgrades), we'll set up a free consult if you want one.
Free quote · Consult if you want one
Full custom build?
Same work request form. Tell us about the rig, whether you're bringing a truck, a van, a camper, or a blank slate. Complex projects get a deep-dive consult with Basil — $150, credited in full toward your build.
$150 · 60 min consult with Basil
What happens next: Basil & the team will contact you within a few business days to figure out what the next steps are!
Hours
Tuesday–Friday - 8 am–4:30 pm
Saturday - 9 am - 3:00 pm
We are always available via email & phone
760-996-5764
Sales & Questions - Sales@BasilsGarage.com
Four Wheel Campers - FWCSD@BasilsGarage.com
About Basil's Garage
A build shop for people who actually use their rigs.
Basil's Garage is a vehicle modification and overland build shop in Vista, CA — 35 minutes north of San Diego. We outfit trucks, vans, and rigs of every kind for serious travel: suspension, electrical, armor, lighting, flatbeds, camper installs, and fully custom builds. We're also an authorized Four Wheel Camper and Go Fast Camper dealer.
Who's Basil
Years in trucks, miles on dirt, and a shop built from it.
Basil Lynch has spent the better part of a decade living out of trucks. Months at a stretch in Baja chasing surf. Weeks on the Oregon coast, the Sierra, Utah's White Rim, Alaska, and Newfoundland — and most of the dirt between. He's slept in rigs, cooked in them, broken them, fixed them in the middle of nowhere, and driven them on every kind of road there is.
Surfing is the thread that ties it all together. Every rig Basil's built — FJ Cruiser, F-250, Tundra, and now a 2002 Ford F-350 7.3 diesel — has been designed around one goal: getting to remote water and living off-grid for as long as he wants to be out there. The camper matters. The truck matters more.
Why it matters
The rig isn't a weekend toy.
These days Basil travels with his family. The rig isn't a weekend toy — it's how they take extended trips together, cook dinner on a beach in Baja, wake up at a trailhead in the Sierra, and live out of the truck for weeks at a time.
That changes the build. Comfort, reliability, and room for real life matter as much as capability. Every rig that leaves the shop is designed with that in mind.
Why the shop exists
A gap to fill.
After a lot of miles, Basil noticed something. Shops that built rigs didn't understand how to live out of them. Shops that sold campers didn't build the truck underneath. Everyone specialized in one piece, and nobody was putting the whole thing together the way you'd actually want it for real-world use. He kept wishing someone was doing this the way he'd do it for himself — real miles behind the advice, honest opinions about what matters, and work that holds up when you're a thousand miles from anywhere.
Basil's Garage is the answer. Every lesson from the road comes back into the shop.
Ten Years on the Road
The miles that feed the shop.
Every opinion in Basil's Garage is backed by one of these routes. Baja to Newfoundland, Alaska to the Gulf Coast — and most of the dirt between.
Basil’s travels over the last ten years, plus many many more unmapped miles.
Learn more about Basil’s travels and see some of the photos from life on the road.