RE: SOTW Xmas Special: Leyland Sherpa Camper Van
Discussion
Bugger I pressed the wrong button & rated It a 5 I meant ZERO, that is a god awful lump of dog poo! Whilst I am full of the Christmas Spirit to the tune of 10 pints or so I'm not so charitable as give that any more than f**k all.
Last years speed boat (supert smashing loveley great,come and see what you could have won!) was funny this Is so wrong on so many levels just NO!
What's for next years' insult? a 250 Superdream? No, No & thrice NO!
Ps I don't like It
Last years speed boat (supert smashing loveley great,come and see what you could have won!) was funny this Is so wrong on so many levels just NO!
What's for next years' insult? a 250 Superdream? No, No & thrice NO!
Ps I don't like It
My Dad used to have an 85 B reg sherpa rover van and it was awesome, it was an ex police van, you could drive it with the front doors open as they were sliding and the thing used to shift. Was made to a price though so I can imagine that these days any one of these things is shagged.
BountyHunter said:
whilst i can accept that some people may find this a cool vehicle, how is this fit for a website with the tagline "Speed Matters" ???
surely SOTW should be about finding a PERFORMANCE car of some sort, not any old sh*t you may happen to come across on a 5 minute ebay search.
We always have a bit of fun with SOTW at Christmas. Normal service will resume next week surely SOTW should be about finding a PERFORMANCE car of some sort, not any old sh*t you may happen to come across on a 5 minute ebay search.
If I didn't have a family connection with Leyland camper vans I'd hate it. But nostalgia has got in the way.
Its the sort of thing you keep for one summer and have a blast it going up to the Highlands and down to Cornwall.
But it really should be a Torcars conversion. Suntor was the brand name given to Torcars conversions. They were made in a big shed in Gt Torrington along with Marina van and Hiace Van based campers - and the odd Princess hatchback.
Most came in a totally uncool - but somehow retrol cool - sand glow colour.
I used to go to the factory when my Dad pikced up his new Suntor Marinas back in the endless summers of the late 1970s. (Rose tinted glasses on now.)
Happy childhood memories in this shed.
But BL cars were pretty s
te. I remember my Dad's Suntors leaking and things like ice in the footwells,rused fuel tanks, AA vans outside the house etc. And these were new cars then.
Dodgy build quality 30 yeas on........Hell why not. Top shed!
Its the sort of thing you keep for one summer and have a blast it going up to the Highlands and down to Cornwall.
But it really should be a Torcars conversion. Suntor was the brand name given to Torcars conversions. They were made in a big shed in Gt Torrington along with Marina van and Hiace Van based campers - and the odd Princess hatchback.
Most came in a totally uncool - but somehow retrol cool - sand glow colour.
I used to go to the factory when my Dad pikced up his new Suntor Marinas back in the endless summers of the late 1970s. (Rose tinted glasses on now.)
Happy childhood memories in this shed.
But BL cars were pretty s
te. I remember my Dad's Suntors leaking and things like ice in the footwells,rused fuel tanks, AA vans outside the house etc. And these were new cars then.Dodgy build quality 30 yeas on........Hell why not. Top shed!
This SOTW for me is amazing. I bought one of these (1978 T reg i believe) 3 years ago to tour europe with 2 other mates. Fantastic vehicle, the interior was the same but we had the walk through roof instead of the pop up.
The damn thing was thrashed for 3 and a bit months, covering thousands of miles throughout a blazing hot summer whilst being a home to 3 quite burly lads - it did it without faltering once! We went everywhere and back then sold it for the £600 we bought it for.
Everybody loved the sight of it and always asked for a look inside, one particular memory was racing a vw camper of about the same vintage along the autobahn at about 70 mph with the whole thing swaying around in the wind, needless to say we both lost our nerve and pulled into a service station and had a bit of a laugh. If I remember correctly it wasn't too bad on fuel either but required a fill of oil after blasting down to dover as not to miss our ferry.
If I wasn't now living in London I'm probably young and stupid enough to have a punt.
The damn thing was thrashed for 3 and a bit months, covering thousands of miles throughout a blazing hot summer whilst being a home to 3 quite burly lads - it did it without faltering once! We went everywhere and back then sold it for the £600 we bought it for.
Everybody loved the sight of it and always asked for a look inside, one particular memory was racing a vw camper of about the same vintage along the autobahn at about 70 mph with the whole thing swaying around in the wind, needless to say we both lost our nerve and pulled into a service station and had a bit of a laugh. If I remember correctly it wasn't too bad on fuel either but required a fill of oil after blasting down to dover as not to miss our ferry.
If I wasn't now living in London I'm probably young and stupid enough to have a punt.
Hi,
I had a 1988 Sherpa in blue, until last year - when I sold it my daughter (aged 5) cried. We used it for my two sons motorcross bikes. We would go to events here on the Isle of Man and there were people there with brand new £40,000 campers. On one evening of a 2 day event, we were sat around a BBQ chatting and this guy started taking the pi%% out of our Sherpa van (he owned the latest camper) - He was really going for it and we had good banter. I met him again recently and we taked about that evening and I told him I had sold the Sherpa van after 5 years ownership and had lost a massive £15 depreciation in that time. He cringed, he had lost £25,000.
We loved it and I leant it to pals for clearing their gardens, moving house, getting seperated, and each time they came back saying it was ace (hire rates were a pack of 24 stellas)
I had a 1988 Sherpa in blue, until last year - when I sold it my daughter (aged 5) cried. We used it for my two sons motorcross bikes. We would go to events here on the Isle of Man and there were people there with brand new £40,000 campers. On one evening of a 2 day event, we were sat around a BBQ chatting and this guy started taking the pi%% out of our Sherpa van (he owned the latest camper) - He was really going for it and we had good banter. I met him again recently and we taked about that evening and I told him I had sold the Sherpa van after 5 years ownership and had lost a massive £15 depreciation in that time. He cringed, he had lost £25,000.
We loved it and I leant it to pals for clearing their gardens, moving house, getting seperated, and each time they came back saying it was ace (hire rates were a pack of 24 stellas)
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