Practically Classics Forum

Solution to the accommodation part of that dilemma:

Sell that lovely Automite and use some of the proceeds to purchase a classic camper van. Sorted!

Do you think they'd mind a tent out the front?

You will have to borrow the 3 wheeled "caravan" John keeps denying is his. At least to the casual observer it is just a car.

If I owned such a thing then you'd be more than welcome to take it on the very strict understanding that I wouldn't get it back!

However, I do have a usable and mostly watertight** Sprite Alpine of mid '70s manufacture. You'd be welcome to that as long as the special plants that are a part of the van could join you on your holiday. No naked flames mind.


**It only leaks in through a slightly broken roof vent but there's a Sainsbury's bag doing great service on there just now and last time I was up by where the van is kept, only a very small amount of water had got in. So slight in fact that the rats were quite unharmed.

Hmmm, or maybe I could hack the back of the Automite off, and replace it with said caravan in a



kind of way??

I hope that wasn't a 3500! Whatever it was, it has been ruined and is only good as a donor now.

Afraid to say it is/was. Not sure of the reasons why, but it's a way of getting a rear ended one back on the road

A better use for it than ending up on the banger track where most went.

To be fair, burning it is a better use than putting it round an oval track.
The car bit looks gorgeous. If as much work went in to the factory metal as went in to sticking fibreglass rubbish to the back, it would be amazing!

I've met that in the flesh, so to speak, at a large show darn sarf some years ago and it's done in a way that follows the general standard of accommodation you'd expect from a factory P5B. Bloomin' lovely and even better than a Tandy Fox camper IMHO.