118 shorty T1N Sprinter inspiration
Here’s an ongoing gallery of cool SWB (shorty) 118” wheelbase Mercedes Sprinters. Or For those in the US, the Dodge or Freightliner versions.
📷 Niel Rensen
📷 Niel Rensen
1996 ‘3 mtr. Sprinter’ - Purchased in Japan 🇯🇵 and took it to Nova Scotia, Canada 🇨🇦
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📷 Nick Chernikovich - Seattle, WA
A nice looking low roof 118 with a interesting way to mount a side ladder (not hanging on the drip rail?)
Interior makes for a great layout and good use of space. L shaped dining that converts to a bed.
The rear sliding windows are amazing!
📷 Philippe From Belleville
This shorty 118 T1N has a lot going on.
RHD (Likely a 🇬🇧 British van)
Looks to be a 4x4 (lift and badge on front fender)
Custom fiberglass roof (on a low roof 118)
Cassette Toilet
Allow wheels
Security window coverings (too cool!)
Luggage boxes securing rear windows
Ashland, OR
This color is amazing. Lots of nice touches on this 118. The painted plastic bumpers and mirrors make for a nice uniformed and custom look. Tinted headlights are a bit much. The roof rack is nicely designed and includes a usable deck with a slide out awning that is made of solar panels. How cool is that!
📷 Mark Davies
Oh boy! This is on amazing van. The unicorn if you will. The Allrad 4x4 Shorty T1N 118 SWB. If you don’t know, Allrad is the german company who does 4x4 conversions. The steelies are interesting and look like 0 offset trailer or Jeep wheels. The deep blue color really pops. And the security of the panel van version keeps things secure. It also looks like front and rear bumpers are all steel aftermarket units. I wish we could find more images of this amazing van. Check out this Allrad NVC3.
📷 Chris Burkard
This beautiful short roof 118 T1N was built by Rigracks with a bunch of cool custom touches. They “fabricated all the exterior accessories of this 2006 118" Sprinter for Photographer Chris Burkard. The roof rack we built has 2 Goal Zero Boulder 90s built-in flush with the mesh, we also did a wind deflector in the front with a 50" Rigid LED light bar inset within it. In the back we tucked in two 20" single row LED light bars as backup lights. We also fabricated the low profile side ladder and front tube bumper/brush guard.” We assume this is a matte wrap in a very cool bronze color not stock on Sprinter Vans.
Via Bring a Trailer
We stumbled on this van when it was posted on Bring a Trailer. Looks great with it’s 16″ five-hole wheels, sourced from a 1996 G320 and wrapped in 225/75 Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac tires. The van is fitted with a VanCompass Scout 2” front suspension lift and Bilstein shocks at all four corners. Braking is handled by four-wheel discs. It’s one of the only vans we’ve ever seen with all the button spaces utilized in the auto shifter dash control column. The rack is interesting as it’s almost like an exocage and hugs the roof, keeping the overall height as low as possible. The odd part is that it’s mounted through the roof and not on the rain rails.
This 118 tall roof Sprinter has a nice lift which looks to be around 2-4” from stock running Porsche Cayenne 17x7.5 wheels and supposedly an AWD system as well.
We did a little writeup on how to fit Cayenne wheel on a T1N Sprinter here.
