Impromptu BL line up
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Breadvan72 said:
I hope that I was not overhooning like a wazzock when you spotted me near that terrible pub.
Today, the Dolomite has done a round trip of about 500 miles. It went to Devon and back, and mostly behaved itself, although it flipped a fuse about five minutes before we arrived home, taking out indicators, tacho, fuel and temperature gauges. Oh noes! Massive fixage action needed tomorrow!
Tremendous! No, you were just emerging from the lane onto the main road in front of that dreadful pub! Never been in there so perhaps a bit unfair of me but it doesn't look appealing enough to try!Today, the Dolomite has done a round trip of about 500 miles. It went to Devon and back, and mostly behaved itself, although it flipped a fuse about five minutes before we arrived home, taking out indicators, tacho, fuel and temperature gauges. Oh noes! Massive fixage action needed tomorrow!
I think I'd have held out for one with sliding doors - as well as facilitating a faster bale-out when you're about to be spotted by someone who knows you - they make it easier to push and steer at the same time.
My grandparents had a couple of Bedford CF Auto-Sleepers, in a not dissimilar shade of 'Sprite Caravan' creamy beige. I have largely recovered from being made to spend time in them, but not from being taken on holiday to Wales.
My grandparents had a couple of Bedford CF Auto-Sleepers, in a not dissimilar shade of 'Sprite Caravan' creamy beige. I have largely recovered from being made to spend time in them, but not from being taken on holiday to Wales.
I spent way too long in a Sprite caravan, and way too long in the Marina that towed it, on many hols in the 70s. Even the largest and roomiest caravan in the world is unutterably naff compared to even the smallest and grottiest campervan. OK, except for the streamlined bare aluminum ones, but they have all been bought by hipsters to be pop up retro-muffin and small batch gin emporia at Latitude.
The Sherpa is roomier, faster, handlier, stoppier, less thirsty, and (with an O Series instead of an air cooled Dubber) likely to be more reliable than any Dub van on the planet, but the Sherpa cost 2K instead of KACHINNGA SCENE TAX YO LOTS £££££££.
I was also tempted by a fairly cool Talbot Express (2.5 Dizzer) and by a moderately cool and quite big Renault (gutless1.5 pezzer with a Weber), both with Autosleeper conversions (Autosleeper seem to have a clue), but the Sherpa wins, and is cheaper than the other two. I narrowly avoided buying a home converted 90s Transit for a grand. I am glad that the seller did not answer messages.
The Sherpa is roomier, faster, handlier, stoppier, less thirsty, and (with an O Series instead of an air cooled Dubber) likely to be more reliable than any Dub van on the planet, but the Sherpa cost 2K instead of KACHINNGA SCENE TAX YO LOTS £££££££.
I was also tempted by a fairly cool Talbot Express (2.5 Dizzer) and by a moderately cool and quite big Renault (gutless1.5 pezzer with a Weber), both with Autosleeper conversions (Autosleeper seem to have a clue), but the Sherpa wins, and is cheaper than the other two. I narrowly avoided buying a home converted 90s Transit for a grand. I am glad that the seller did not answer messages.
The O Series is a real gem to sit behind...
Early Sherpas have a pleasing lightness about them, as do Mk1 Transits and CFs - but presumably the flipside of there being no 'scene' is that there are also no parts.
Yours looks like a slightly odd mix of pre- (hubcaps, door handles, windowframes, dash) and post- (bumpers, badges, mirrors) BL's 'black is the new chrome' phase. Chrome bumpers and mirrors would set it off nicely, I reckon.
Early Sherpas have a pleasing lightness about them, as do Mk1 Transits and CFs - but presumably the flipside of there being no 'scene' is that there are also no parts.
Yours looks like a slightly odd mix of pre- (hubcaps, door handles, windowframes, dash) and post- (bumpers, badges, mirrors) BL's 'black is the new chrome' phase. Chrome bumpers and mirrors would set it off nicely, I reckon.
55palfers said:
My wife and I recently paid £79 for B&B in a first rate establishment with historically good poached eggs and smoked haddock for our brekkie .
We slept in a comfy bed and enjoyed a hot shower.
We did not have to empty the toilet.
We did not arrive in a beige commercial vehicle.
Get a grip.
There's no romance in your soul!We slept in a comfy bed and enjoyed a hot shower.
We did not have to empty the toilet.
We did not arrive in a beige commercial vehicle.
Get a grip.
t The van is currently festooned with Minion stickers and stick on bullet holes. Those shall be removed as soon as I am around the corner from the seller's gaffe. The van is presently called (and stickered) "Sherman" and referred to as "he" by the sellers. Vehicles are either "it" or (rarely) "she", to me. The van will not have a name anymore, If it were to have a name, the name would be "Tenzing Norgay", obvs.
PGM said:
Breadvan72 said:
I hope that I was not overhooning like a wazzock when you spotted me near that terrible pub....
... No, you were just emerging from the lane onto the main road in front of that dreadful pub! Never been in there so perhaps a bit unfair of me but it doesn't look appealing enough to try!So, I live a few hundred metres from a village pub, but to go to a village pub that I want to go to, I have to drive either three miles to the Leathern Bottle at Lewknor, or two miles to The Crown at Sydenham, or six miles to the Top Fox at Christmas Common.
Breadvan72 said:
Morningside said:
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Or a Leyland DAF/LDV - car transporter would be ideal as it would help save money on all those breakdowns
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The other bit of the half eaten Twix goes goes to Morningside for not being a million miles off.Or a Leyland DAF/LDV - car transporter would be ideal as it would help save money on all those breakdowns
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Breadvan72 said:
PGM said:
Breadvan72 said:
I hope that I was not overhooning like a wazzock when you spotted me near that terrible pub....
... No, you were just emerging from the lane onto the main road in front of that dreadful pub! Never been in there so perhaps a bit unfair of me but it doesn't look appealing enough to try!So, I live a few hundred metres from a village pub, but to go to a village pub that I want to go to, I have to drive either three miles to the Leathern Bottle at Lewknor, or two miles to The Crown at Sydenham, or six miles to the Top Fox at Christmas Common.
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