Show us your gear (tents to motorhomes)

[Morningside]

Last week in Lincolnshire. Had to abandon ship on the 3rd night and head to a b&b due to high winds.

Sleeps 8 my arse! It was just right for 2 of us.


Now have a motorhome. Pics to follow at a later date.

[ApOrbital]

How bloody tall are you both?

[Morningside]

Me. 5'10 and her 5ft. But we do like our space.

[bedonde]

Picked our new Adria up yesterday. Our first caravan and it's a big bugger at over 8m long. Quite intimidating being the first thing I've towed, was full of nerves pulling out of the dealers forecourt

[VYT]

Its a bit rugged.

[Jasper3.0]

Cayman gone. With arrival of a golf gte company car I was not using it, so it went and was replaced with......



A 2010 Burstner Solano T725

[DoubleSix]

[CoolC]

VYT said:

Its a bit rugged.

You can't post just that! We demand more info and pictures.

[VYT]

Its an OKA XT.
OKA's are Aussie built 4x4's that were mainly used by miners and tour organisers, a pumped up Landrover 101.

It has a Perkins Phaser 110 engine Leyland Terrier 5 speed box coupled to a 2 speed transfer box. Mine has freewheeling front hubs and an air locking rear diff.
So far I haven't felt the need to use 4WD anywhere.

The camper back was built about 8 years ago its compact but has room for 2 with shower and toilet as well as a 5' bed, AC and heating. The whole thing is just 6m long and 2m wide so it can just fit in a regular parking spot.
Its got 1kW of solar on the roof and 4x 200Ahr deep cycle batteries, (plus a start battery and accessories battery). Enough to keep the essentials going for a week with no sun. There are two water tanks totaling 250 litres and a 50 litre grey water tank for "leave no trace" areas.

Its a bit of a slug on the freeway, happy at 90 clicks as long as there are no hills. I've fitted an intercooler to hopefully boost power a bit. It doesn't make sense to go too far adding power as once off the black stuff its got plenty of power and not bad on juice. I see about 12 - 13 litres / 100km. Economy is sort of important when fuel stops might be 500km apart. That said there are twin diesel tanks holding 220 litres combined.

The truck is old enough to have no electrickery if its got fuel it will run.

[VYT]

[Morningside]

Morningside said:

Last week in Lincolnshire. Had to abandon ship on the 3rd night and head to a b&b due to high winds.

Sleeps 8 my arse! It was just right for 2 of us.


Now have a motorhome. Pics to follow at a later date.

Taken at Wild Duck a few weeks back just as we were packing up.

[geeks]

Our jalopy otherwise known as Lemon the Van!




Wife made all new cushions, curtains and flooring!





The Stowaway!



Race car towing duties!

[chasingracecars]

Here is ours, realised its too long to take up only two parking spaces!

Takes a bit of manoeuvring but mastered it now, will probably leave the motor mover now, more toys to buy then spend £500 on a mover!

TV, Sun Canopy, Generator etc.

Got the caravan on June 2nd, no real problems so far. Incidentally this was on the 3rd of June in France!

Edited by chasingracecars on Wednesday 4th January 17:32

Edited by chasingracecars on Sunday 18th February 21:00

[hornetrider]

VYT said:

You, sir, win the thread! That is an awesome bit of kit. Got any more pics?

[RAClNG SNAKE]

RWD Mid engined V6 that spits twin blue flames out the back. (If I light both sides of the hob)

[Quickmoose]

Great air beam tent:

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/air-seconds-xl-3-freshb...

[Avagoodweegend]

Here's our first camping set up





We currently camp like this





We've just done the Australian thing and ordered a camper trailer so our set up will be changing again! We can't wait.

Andy

[Bellini]

OzTents are fantastic things. Although we've not used ours for a few years due to buying a motorhome, they're handy to have and will probably outlast us.

[McFly309]

The Gin Palace.

[parakitaMol.]

Arriving next week.... the dog-mobile... rather excited.