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Post by Humph on Aug 24, 2016 18:30:44 GMT
I was down in the south west earlier this week and feel that I saw a lot of old style VW camper vans puffing their way up and down the M5. In fact a couple of them had run out of breath and were on the hard shoulder, but given the age of the technology I don't suppose they were enjoying the heat.
They seem to be a popular choice among the surfing set ( if there is a surfing set? )
I kind of get it I suppose, but those olde worlde ones seem pretty basic and apparently painfully slow.
Not cheap either having had a quick scan of the classifieds.
kinda cute though.
Talk me out of it...
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 18:41:39 GMT
No, I will not talk you out of it. In fact I insist you should buy one. Dirt cheap here, as well.
Imagine one permanently kitted out for you and your son to go silly biking. needing only the addition of the bikes for you and he to head off at a moments notice to somewhere a little more interesting without having to worry about there and back in a day. No preparation, no packing, just a load of bread, couple of pints of milk and a change of clotehs.
Bit of bonding around the campfire, not worried too much about speed of journey, early morning / late evening biking, Welsh hills etc. etc.
I jest not, I use one often with my children and it is just great. It doesn't work for my wife because she wants a higher level of comfort and sophistication, she's not a great one for roughing it. But for me and the children, be it fishing, hunting or biking, its just brilliant.
Really, I cannot see how it can possibly be a bad idea..........
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Post by Rob on Aug 24, 2016 18:42:31 GMT
Don't do it. Geta classic VW Beetle instead?
Espada on the other hand should get the new Tesla S P100D :-)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 18:52:08 GMT
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Post by Humph on Aug 24, 2016 18:53:33 GMT
A friend's father still has a 1970s Beetle he bought new. Doesn't use it as his main car anymore and hasn't for decades but he just likes to keep it. Bit of a "Trigger's broom" of a car having had more or less everything replaced over the years.
The camper van thing though, ugh, um, er, maybe...
Is a bandana absolutely compulsory? Not sure I'm quite ready for that.
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Post by Humph on Aug 24, 2016 18:56:59 GMT
Stop it now. I'm not even slightly going to consider it. Not even the crazy idea I just had of driving it across South America to an Atlantic sea port. Nope, not going to happen.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 18:59:59 GMT
It would have been £1,100 3 months ago. That's Brexit for you.
Also, by the way, you shouldn't worry about the LHD / RHD thing with one of those. Firstly it won't matter often, secondly you're higher, and lastly you would probably use it abroad anyway.
The joy, and I mean joy, of one of those things is that it is stress free. You can't drive it fast, so driving slow becomes stress free. You can stop anywhere, rest anywhere, it truly is mooching about with total relaxation. Stop for a coffee, stop for a kip, etc. etc. I can not tell you how many French restaurants where I have slept in the car park in a camper van having had a very relaxing lunch.
As for the bandana.... It depends where you tie it.
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Post by Hofmeister on Aug 24, 2016 19:00:56 GMT
A friend's father still has a 1970s Beetle he bought new. Doesn't use it as his main car anymore and hasn't for decades but he just likes to keep it. Bit of a "Trigger's broom" of a car having had more or less everything replaced over the years. The camper van thing though, ugh, um, er, maybe... Is a bandana absolutely compulsory? Not sure I'm quite ready for that. Friends of ours have one, its a "bay" they would prefer a "splitty", As a fun car, ie something to tinker with, and to extend the scope of your social and family life, they do make a lot of sense. If someone offered me one, I'd say - "Cheers thanks", and I'm sure I'd get a lot of family fun out of it.
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Post by Humph on Aug 24, 2016 19:11:47 GMT
So hang on a cotton pickin' minute. Let's say someone bought one in Chile, shipped it to the UK, paid for all that and the duty and so on, the fandango of getting it registered here and any tweaks it might need to be made legal here. Then sold it on here for rather more than the cost of all that...
Hmmm ( twirls moustache )
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 24, 2016 19:11:59 GMT
...they're a great way of doing (short and slow) tours of French, German, (substitute a country of your choice) motorway hard shoulders and service stations.
I've lost count of the times I've had tools begged off me on my travels, sometimes for quite major roadside repairs.
Mind you, I had an English coach pull up alongside me on a Belgian motorway aire to ask me, out of nowhere, if I had a pair of thin-nose pliers to adjust his heating as his passengers were feeling a trifle cold.
Must just be the way I look..............
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2016 19:30:21 GMT
Mmm. So if someone with British citizenship, Chilean and Brazilian residency and a teenager suggested to another Brit with a teenager the prospect of buying two and taking a month driving them to said Atlantic port and shipping them to the UK, splitting all costs, efforts and profits, it would be of no interest?
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Post by Rob on Aug 24, 2016 19:35:25 GMT
Or they've seen your ice pick picture
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 24, 2016 19:41:05 GMT
Or they've seen your ice pick picture Axe you b*stard, it's axe!! (or is it Ax)
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Post by Humph on Aug 24, 2016 20:47:26 GMT
Looks a lot like a pick though. Got to be said...I mean if you had to describe a pick, it'd sound quite like that wouldn't it? As in not very axe like.😉
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 24, 2016 21:08:18 GMT
Looks a lot like a pick though. Got to be said...I mean if you had to describe a pick, it'd sound quite like that wouldn't it? As in not very axe like.😉 OK, you've got me. It's an Ice Pick. But Trotsky was an acccident, honest. The result of a stolly* overdose...... (Though Wikipedia, strangely, credits an Ice-Axe)....... * not made in Warrington, thank god.
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