Practically Classics Forum

rich. wrote:display a caravan? are you trying to keep up with the neighbours? of sounds rather pointless to me..

People actually do own vintage items other than cars. Believe it or not, amongst other things, caravans are really very popular.

rich. wrote:staying anywhere that isnt home always involves a hotel, we are not savages!!

I just knew that there was something about you that struck an empathy.

rich. wrote:now off to look for some datsuns to calm my nerves now
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/metro-moke-ra ... 2280196512
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/15218118 ... rmvSB=true
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Mercedes-Slk- ... 3641.l6368

Now you have gone and ruined it.(Apart from the SLK)

meanwhile just for you john....
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1992-RENAULT- ... 3641.l6368


edit!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1993-MERCEDES ... 3641.l6368
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DATSUN-280ZX- ... 3641.l6368
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/A-Team-van/11 ... rmvSB=true

I've asked the seller for an English version of the description that came with the CF, that Clio actually looks great, especially the interior and that's the sort of thing I've been known to buy on a whim.
However, nice though it is, it's still a Clio. As a thank you for posting the Clio, have a look at this beauty:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C759514

camping/ caravanning.. where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person...
meanwhile..
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/112080211926
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262559490606
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MG-Metro-6R4- ... 2121672666
warning! contains facebook...
https://www.facebook.com/groups/3300673 ... 5/?fref=nf
theres a silvia auto for sale here somewhere

rich. wrote:camping/ caravanning.. where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person...

No you don't. The idea of a vintage caravan on the back of a vintage car is for the pose. You don't actually live in the thing. Glampingfor caravaners is this, or staying nearby in a decent hotel.

JPB wrote:I've asked the seller for an English version of the description that came with the CF, that Clio actually looks great, especially the interior and that's the sort of thing I've been known to buy on a whim.
However, nice though it is, it's still a Clio. As a thank you for posting the Clio, have a look at this beauty:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C759514

John, I've seen that caravan at some show or other. A Doctor Who box it ain't. Put it this way, if it was a loo, you would have to drop your pants and go in backwards to take a dump.

GHT wrote:

rich. wrote:camping/ caravanning.. where you spend a small fortune to live like a homeless person...

No you don't. The idea of a vintage caravan on the back of a vintage car is for the pose. You don't actually live in the thing. Glampingfor caravaners is this, or staying nearby in a decent hotel.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/diction ... ish/poseur

GHT wrote:

JPB wrote:...if it was a loo, you would have to drop your pants and go in backwards to take a dump.

Sounds much the same as my default technique! I mean to say, if you were to go in forwards then you'd have to watch your footing very carefully on the way out..



But, as a thing to pull into the show field behind a jalopy of similar period, that does catch my eye and it's got to be both bigger inside and less scary to drive than a Tandy Fox camper, itself a masterpiece of packaging but the only time I've driven one any distance, the wind was serious about its work and I was grateful for the Fox's vinyl upholstery, which allowed evidence of my state of distress to be hosed out onto the road before I delivered the van to its new forever home (if that sort of patter is good enough for animal charities, then it's good enough for me..). I'd actually quite like a Sprite Ariel, 400 or Cadet to tug along behind the daily motor as it needs a light van, seeing as Yamaha saw fit to endow the Liftback's engine with no great absence of power at the north end of the rev counter , but less torque than a moped low down .
I also like the Portafold and its close relation the Anusfold, GRP monocoque vans that are clever, warm and sometimes even dry. I once came close to buying a Portafold but I joined the owners' forum and was put off for life.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Peugeot-504-T ... 3641.l6368
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1982-TRIUMPH- ... 3641.l6368

504!

That would be ideal if it had a Sprite Musketeer attached.