YOU EITHER GET IT OR YOU DONT

Fi · Guru

Am I boring you all yet?

qwerty · Senior Member

Are they're any tests that need to be done on a caravan? Like cars have an MOT? Looks cool. Would look sweet behind the minor Mitch!

Fi · Guru

Nope, you just make sure that the lights & brakes work and hitch it up and you're away!

Getting it in and out of the driveway is another question, especially when you live in street where people have a habbit of parking over your driveway.

Being serious, you do have to watch for damp and to make sure that the gas & electric is OK. The beauty of a van like that is that if it's looked after it well make money. We paid £150 for ours and could easliy sell it for a lot more than that now I've given it a clean up.

qwerty · Senior Member

Hmm Shame I've got nowhere to put it, the Campervan kinda takes up space for a caravan

Fi · Guru

Got any photo's? We like campervans.

Mitch · Sex God

Tis nice, but now i'm looking for for a smaller one. Dont think the minor would tow it. Fancy a Mostard. Not cheap but they look kool.

Fi · Guru

The guy say's it's a 12footer and 2 berth. Would that be too big then? Our's is 13foot.

Mitch · Sex God

Quite like this one. Ugly as hell, i think thats why i like it. Should be light weight too as its fibreglass.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=010&item=200037207697&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

-- Edited by Mitch at 16:24, 2006-10-18

Fi · Guru

That is one sexy little van and if you can get it for what it's up at that would be really kool too.

Get a little awning and you've got an extra bedroom too!

-- Edited by Fi at 16:43, 2006-10-18

Mr POPular · !!!!!!GOD!!!!!!

yea, now your both boring me......

HANG ON................

GOT MY ANORAK ON................

BUSES...........Leyland national has always been favourite single and the Bristol VR6 my fovourite double.....what say you?..................

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

Fi · Guru

Hmm Bristol VR's, would that be the Eatern Coach Works bodied ones, cause if they are quite nice, but they are VR's. Now if you were talking about the Bristol MW or LL then we'd be talking!

Fi · Guru

Oh yes and the National is far too long, give me an AEC Swift or Regal........

Night night.

Mr POPular · !!!!!!GOD!!!!!!

The swift and the Regal are pretty but the National was the first bus I drove.....Around Tenterden bus station when I was a kid!

Fi · Guru

We were on holiday in Tenterden, well that's where the Humber rally was this year and we stayed a couple of miles away.

Now as for the Regal, are we talking pre-war or post you know the ones like the RF?

Mitch · Sex God

BUSES

qwerty · Senior Member

Camper is a very Solid (and i mean completely solid) T25 that we paid....wait for it.....£250 for!

I'm currently in the process of buying my first Mod for the Minor and i thought this is a good thread to announce it.

A 70's trailer tent!!!

Should look awesome behind a raked minor. But I may need a 1275 to pull the dam thing lol

Fi · Guru

That sounds great, we'll have to have a gathering at next years shows.

qwerty · Senior Member

Haven't heard anything back from the bloke selling it

I wanted to pick it up on Sunday!

Mitch · Sex God

Thank god we're not still talking about buses!

Hey Qwerty did you know that most traler tent stud patterns are the same as Minor (4inch) so you can have matching wheels on car and trailer.

qwerty · Senior Member

AWESOME!!!! How did you know thats exactly what i wanted to do!?!?!?!?

Fi · Guru

Can we talk about fire engines instead then?

Mitch · Sex God

qwerty wrote:

AWESOME!!!! How did you know thats exactly what i wanted to do!?!?!?!?

Just guessed.

I'm building a matching trailer for my Traveller to transport my number plate stall to car shows. I've got about 8 Spare standard minor wheels at home, so dont buy any for yours.

qwerty · Senior Member

You still got those wide steels Mitch? I was gunna clean em up and wack em on the back. Van wheels on the front(they're slightly wider aren't they?) so I can use the standard minor wheels on the trailer

Mr POPular · !!!!!!GOD!!!!!!

If this carries on I'm gonna change the name to Minorspeed!!!!!

Fi · Guru

Si is you want some porn, have a look at these:

This one's a Chevy! And one more, a nice Bristol RE.

Fi · Guru

Yippee!

Heard at the Humber club AGM today that we will have a page in the club magazine called, yip you've guessed it "Caravan Corner". I shall be in heaven!!!!

Mr POPular · !!!!!!GOD!!!!!!

Caravan corner + the world according to fi.........god help us all!!

Fi · Guru

By the way mate, all the old dears in the Humber club loved that joke that you sent me.

qwerty · Senior Member

Trailer tent sale fell through

Guy selling it wouldn't reply my emails, and my mate Sam whose Suzuki SJ we were gunna use to tow it home, has sold it! WAS ONLY £40 ASWELL!!

Fi · Guru

qwerty wrote:

Trailer tent sale fell through

Oh, brown smelly stuff! I am sorry to hear that.

qwerty · Senior Member

I'm pretty gutted

All this caravan talk has got me wanting to build a micro van. Or to find another trailer tent.

Doris · Veteran Member

qwerty wrote:

Are they're any tests that need to be done on a caravan? Like cars have an MOT? Looks cool. Would look sweet behind the minor Mitch!

I assume you know that if you passed you test 2000 or later you need a seperate towing licence, as they stopped giving automatic towing rights with full licences. You just take a test like for a car.

qwerty · Senior Member

Doris wrote:

qwerty wrote:

Are they're any tests that need to be done on a caravan? Like cars have an MOT? Looks cool. Would look sweet behind the minor Mitch!

I assume you know that if you passed you test 2000 or later you need a seperate towing licence, as they stopped giving automatic towing rights with full licences. You just take a test like for a car.

No I didn't but thanks for letting me know! I'll have to look into that.

Mitch · Sex God

Bidding on this at the mo. Should be able to pull it in Minor. Going to strip it out and turn it into a surf themed caravan.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&item=190044759490&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&rd=1

Fi · Guru

Mitch wrote:

Going to strip it out and turn it into a surf themed caravan.

Seeing as Thomson were a Scottish company, I'd have thought tartan seatcovers would have been more the thing.

By the way, it looks like that was made in Thomson's last year of manufactoring, as thay went belly up in 1986.

-- Edited by Fi at 20:04, 2006-10-29

Mitch · Sex God

Fi, its scary how you know so much about caravans

Mr POPular · !!!!!!GOD!!!!!!

I thought she was scary before she started talking about caravans!!!!

Love ya really

Fi · Guru

Bored & lonely housewife needs something to do when hubby's away and the batteries have run out.......

So she reads her copy of "Caravans:the illustrated History from 1960" just in case someone happens to ask her a question on the subject. Best £2.50 I've spent in a long time!

Fi · Guru

Mr POPular wrote:

I thought she was scary before she started talking about caravans!!!! Love ya really

That's rich coming the guy who has a rich supply of jokes!

The retro-metro owning uncles loves 'um by the way.

Fi · Guru

Mitch wrote:

Bidding on this at the mo. Should be able to pull it in Minor. Going to strip it out and turn it into a surf themed caravan.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=009&item=190044759490&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEBI%3AIT&rd=1

'Ere Mitch, did you see that the caravan has been re-listed on ebay, due to an error? Do you know anymore about this?

Mitch · Sex God

Yeah, blokes a c*ck. Someone told him its 1975 not 1986 as he described it, so as he didn't want to mislead he cancelled auction and started again. What a waste of time.

Fi · Guru

Are you still going for it?

OK it's not as old at first you thought, but it least it's got the older style with mod cons.

Mitch · Sex God

Yeah, i'm highest bidder.

qwerty · Senior Member

This may or may not be of interest

http://retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=FSW&action=display&thread=1162828768

Fi · Guru

I used to love watching the caravan banger racing at Foxhall (Ipswich).

If a caravan or classic car come to think of it, is past it's best and can't be restored/saved then why banger race it. Just save me any of the window catches from any safari caravans, oh and the safari glasses if they are still in there.