Re: What classic vehicles have you seen?
Posted: Mon Sep 02, 2019 3:22 am
Can it really be true that nobody has seen anything worth mentioning since March?
Today, after having a run down to the Sunday market at Tynemouth Metro station at a steady 55mph in my Camper van, I saw something amazing but couldn't take my phone out of the screen cradle to take a photo as the constabulary were sitting - in a new BMW - right behind me as I queued to get out of the station car park.
The object that caught my eye was none other than a six-wheeled coachbuilt camper van with a creamy white Minor pickup cab up front and the four wheels under the huge camper body to the rear. I looked over and smiled, waved and exchanged the obligatory thumbs up with the women who were sitting in the Minor cab, they seemed to be looking at my Toyota camper as hard as I was looking at their wonderful bit of kit.
I figured that so unusual a thing must be known to the world of Minor folk, so although I didn't get the photo today, I reckoned that somewhere in cyberspace, there must already be an image showing the van and guess what...
Nope. Minor commercial-based campers of every shape and size bar the one I wanted to find! I can only hope that it's relatively local and that I shall see it again because I want to know everything about the van, how it was put together, whether the modern-looking front wheels hinted at something altogether un-Minor under the surface and what had been done to create the extra few feet/yards of bespoke bodywork behind the familiar shape of the Minor cab.
Has anyone here seen such a device? If this was you and you've been drawn to this forum by some strange quirk of fate, please tell us all about the van.
Today, after having a run down to the Sunday market at Tynemouth Metro station at a steady 55mph in my Camper van, I saw something amazing but couldn't take my phone out of the screen cradle to take a photo as the constabulary were sitting - in a new BMW - right behind me as I queued to get out of the station car park.
The object that caught my eye was none other than a six-wheeled coachbuilt camper van with a creamy white Minor pickup cab up front and the four wheels under the huge camper body to the rear. I looked over and smiled, waved and exchanged the obligatory thumbs up with the women who were sitting in the Minor cab, they seemed to be looking at my Toyota camper as hard as I was looking at their wonderful bit of kit.
I figured that so unusual a thing must be known to the world of Minor folk, so although I didn't get the photo today, I reckoned that somewhere in cyberspace, there must already be an image showing the van and guess what...
Nope. Minor commercial-based campers of every shape and size bar the one I wanted to find! I can only hope that it's relatively local and that I shall see it again because I want to know everything about the van, how it was put together, whether the modern-looking front wheels hinted at something altogether un-Minor under the surface and what had been done to create the extra few feet/yards of bespoke bodywork behind the familiar shape of the Minor cab.
Has anyone here seen such a device? If this was you and you've been drawn to this forum by some strange quirk of fate, please tell us all about the van.