MADE IN MICHIGAN · METRO DETROIT
Made In Michigan
Drifter builds in Southfield, on Telegraph Road, in the region that industrialized the automobile and never stopped building it. The trades a coachbuilt campervan requires were trained here by a century of the work.
Ford Motor Company
Henry Ford. Henry Ford incorporates Ford Motor Company in Detroit — the third car company he'd tried to launch, and the first to last. It's the company that will put the country on wheels and bind the industry to Detroit for good.
Body by Fisher.
The Fisher brothers come from carriage-making and put a coach on their emblem. Detroit's body builders — Fisher, Briggs, Dietrich — craft what the chassis makers don't: body, trim, interior. The coachbuilder's split between chassis and body happens here at industrial scale.
General Motors
The region's plants and trades retool for the war effort. The proof holds: this workforce can build whatever is asked of it.
Drifter
Detroit doesn't build to impress. Detroit builds to last. Trim shops measure twice. Fabricators take the extra hour. Engineers tell you what won't work before they tell you what will.
That's the standard a Drifter is built to. It's the standard the city taught us.
Drifter is proud to be built here. There's no better place to be built.
Why the vans are built here.
A coachbuilt campervan needs the trades the auto industry trained: fabrication, wiring, joinery, upholstery, finish. In metro Detroit those are not specialties to recruit for. They are the local economy. The people on Drifter's production floor learned the work in the region that invented the scale of it. At Drifter they apply it to twenty-four vans a year instead of twenty-four thousand.
The crest's 26 stars are coordinates. They mark where the first Drifter was built: Michigan. Every van that leaves carries them.
Drifter Gallery
Completed Commissions
Every van here is a completed Drifter commission: Built to the owners specifications, one floor plan, one interior. Use the gallery as a starting reference, then bring the ideas that matter to a commissioning conversation.
Real Custom Campervan Owner Stories
ARON + JAMIE
Dual Workstation, Starlink & Mobile Office
Ford Transit van conversion. Transit Extended on a Drifter custom layout — Aged Barrel slatted birch ceiling, North Star flat-face cabinets, Saman live edge countertop, Gem Lime whitewash walls. Dual workstation, Starlink in motion, PlayStation cabinet with thermal ventilation.
DEREK SARNO
Chef Van, Mobile Kitchen & Outdoor Cooking
Derek Sarno's custom campervan. Ford Transit Long Body. Storm Cloud flat-face cabinets with old copper hardware, cedar plank gold pecan chevron walls through the bed area, Shoji White ceiling, and a professional outdoor kitchen system built into the garage.
ALLISON + HER DOGS
Marble Shower, Rattan Cabinets & Dog-Friendly
Sprinter campervan reveal. Mercedes Sprinter 170" on a custom layout — White Dove shaker cabinets with rattan inserts, champagne bronze hardware throughout, fixed marble shower with white niche, and a queen-to-king pull-out bed.
Schedule
a call
15 Minute Discovery Call
Begin with a 15-minute discovery call: how you'll use the van, platform, investment range, and whether the project fits the 2027 Andara Collection. If it fits, the next step is a one-hour proposal call, and Drifter prepares a full proposal.
