Man quits job and sells home to travel world - in $200k converted Lambo - video Dailymotion

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A young entrepreneur has left the company he founded and sold his home so he can travel the world - in a converted Lamborghini.  Connor, 28, has turned his $200k (£160k) Lamborghini Urus into a campervan - and dubbed it a 'Camperghini'.  He says he's spent around $30k (£24k) to include cooking facilities, a bed and a powerful 21-speaker sound system.   Connor, who doesn't wish to reveal his surname, says he was suddenly inspired to abandon his materialistic living following the death of a close friend  And he now plans to take his motorhome to every country in the world.   He also jokes that he's probably the only person in the world to be both homeless and own a Lamborghini - and insists he has no regrets.   Connor said: "Sometimes I have to pinch myself. The doors that this car opens are just incredible.   "When you go on this journey of the American Dream you realise that material things aren't what's important - it's the freedom to do what you want, when you want."  Connor founded his own construction company in his early teens.  He then built up over the years, taking on employees and winning more and more lucrative contracts.   Connor said: "I worked 18 hours a day for the last 14 years. Then a buddy passed away and I broke up with my girlfriend.   "I thought, 'I could be doing this for the rest of my life and have continuous success... but where will I be?'."  A little over a year ago, Connor spontaneously decided to sell his house in his hometown of Colorado, buy a Lamborghini Urus SUV at an online auction and hit the road.   He has since spent thousands personally modifying his 'Camperghini' to transform it into what is possibly the first mobile-home-cum-supercar.   As well as boasting 641bhp and a top speed of 190mph (305kph), it also has a fridge, a stove, a bed, Starlink internet, a panoramic sunroof, solar panels, a water filter and a roof rack full of extra supplies.   Despite his outlandish choice of car, Connor admits he was more into Ferraris when he was younger and even considered getting an Aston Martin for his round-the-world trip.   He said: "The Lambo is absolutely amazing - it's such a fun car to drive around the world with. It was 100 per cent the one I wanted.  "Adventuring around the world in a Lamborghini is so crazy and different.   "I thought it would be cool to get an Aston Martin Vantage and put a tent on top, but I needed an SUV."  Though he's already visited a variety of countries across Europe, Connor has his sights on eventually ticking off every country in the world - including rogue states such as North Korea.   He said: "I see myself looking back and telling my grandkids someday about all the badass adventures I've had. So far I've just been bouncing around Europe getting the car done.   "I've explored a bit of Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK.   "The plan is to go to every country in the world; most of Europe this summer th

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00:00My name's Connor. I'm from America, Colorado to be specific, and I bought this

00:05Lamborghini Urus about a year ago. Flew it on a plane to Germany. Been working on

00:10finishing some of the mods on the vehicle to turn it into a proper camper

00:13and I'm setting off on a journey around the world. Right now here I am obviously

00:18in England and going to trek across Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, South

00:24America, pretty much everywhere in between.

00:27The biggest things that have led me on this journey around the world was a

00:31number of years ago I had a buddy of mine and I got a phone call that he had

00:35hit a cow on I-25 on the way back to Colorado. He was gone. Just like no longer

00:43existing on this planet. It was such a weird thought of mine and there were

00:48definitely like days, weeks, whatever, months after that that I would be doing

00:52something I would like on Instagram. I'd want to send him something like, ah, this

00:56is a post he would like. Oh no, like he's not here. And it didn't resonate right

01:02away with me but over time it just, it hit me that like life is short. You know

01:09we're not on this planet. Tomorrow is not a given. It's a blessing and there's no

01:15perfect time to set off on this journey. I was on the ground of my living room on

01:19a yoga mat bidding on a Lamborghini Urus and the idea was to turn it into a

01:25camper van, travel around the world, but I knew if I didn't do it now I was never

01:30gonna do it. So modifications wise I've done the tires and rims. I've done the

01:34rack on the roof. I've added a bed in the back. I've added a fridge in the back.

01:38I've got a stove that's like a conglomerate of parts from the US and

01:43Germany. I've got an entire battery bank, complete electronic system in the back.

01:48I'm about to do the front and rear off-road bumpers, skid plates, a little

01:52bit of a lift, and some more lighting. I would say it's north of a quarter million.

01:59It's fun. I mean it's not the most comfortable, you know, it's not the Four

02:02Seasons or Ritz-Carlton, but I can camp anywhere, literally. It's disguised. No one

02:07expects me camping in the back so that's really cool and it's fast, it's

02:12maneuverable, it's easy to park. It's not like these big, you know, camper vans and

02:16just the conversations that I have, such as this, it's just amazing what this car

02:23brings and it's crazy to think that a material thing brings that because

02:27that's not the get-all be-all of life, but to take a material thing and

02:31leverage that into relationships with people around the world is what it's

02:35about.

Man quits job and sells home to travel world - in $200k converted Lambo

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