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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 31, 2023 11:51:40 GMT
I could see myself in a campervan but only a rented one for specific holidays. For less than the money being asked to buy one (and the same goes for 'luxury park homes'), I would buy and in fact have bought a second home, a 90 minute drive from home. It is part of the inheritance from my father to be used for the benefit of my children. But whilst they don't need it just now, we have invested it in a nice property which we can all use and has significant capital growth potential.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 12:04:23 GMT
What gets my goat is people who own one, park it in a residential area and don't use it for years. There's an example of this a few streets from me, where a good sized camper van sits on someone's front garden, completely ruining the light and view from their attached neighbour's front window, and the thing never seems to be used for any holidays. It only ever sometimes moves onto the street for a few days if they need their driveway/garden for other things, or access to the garage I suppose, where it is equally an inconvenience and nuisance to the people living around them. The owners clearly don't have enough off road space to store it in such a way as to not be a nuisance to others, and are evidently too tight to pay for storage elsewhere when not in use (i.e. 100% of the time).
Utterly baffling and if I was living next door I'd be furious. I bet they voted Leave, I'd put my mortgage on it.
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Post by EspadaIII on Jan 31, 2023 12:31:42 GMT
Not only that - they are too tight to pay to park it at a proper caravan/RV parking lot over the winter so it is out of the way. Think of the depreciation they are suffering without the enjoyment of using it...
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Post by WDB on Jan 31, 2023 16:10:01 GMT
Camper van (or trailer caravan) and holiday home are two species of the same thing: a sledgehammer of ownership and exclusivity to crack the hazelnut of having somewhere different to sleep for a few nights a year. We'll have to see whether the new measure allowing councils to charge extra Council Tax on holiday homes that aren't let out for 70 days a year has any effect on that - although of course it won't affect Vić's neighbours.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 16:15:59 GMT
Does depend how much you use it. In the case of my friends who live in one permanently and thus derive their income from the several bricks and mortar properties they own outright, it's pretty good value for money. In the case of the people a few streets from me who never use theirs, they might as well set fire to £50 notes.
I think I'd still like a small holiday home in France come retirement, I would spend an awful lot of time there.
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Post by Humph on Feb 10, 2023 8:05:55 GMT
Might be wrong of course, but I think last night’s episode of Salvage Hunters classic cars may possibly have got a bit close to Al’s dream car.
A Lancia Fulvia coupe in brown!
Very nice thing actually.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 9:21:06 GMT
Ooooof. Very nice indeed. I don't watch the show but I'll look that one up.
I like brown.
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Post by Humph on Feb 10, 2023 9:39:37 GMT
They sold it for £19k or something round about there in the end. You really would have to like brown to spend that I suppose.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 9:49:41 GMT
Whilst I like a Fulvia, they're a little bit before my time. With Lancias it'd have to be a Beta Coupe. Much as I like brown, I'd put a red Alfasud up there as my dream car. As late as possible, say the 1983 vintage, this sort of thing:  Cars are a bit like music, aren't they? The ones you liked most in your teens/20s are the ones that stick with you for life. There isn't much pre-late-70s music I like, and not much post-90s. Same with cars, innit. |
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Post by Humph on Feb 10, 2023 10:14:42 GMT
When I was about 5, I decided I would one day have a pagoda roofed Mercedes SL. I’m fairly sure I will never fulfill that ambition now, but I can continue to dream I suppose. Cream with red leather or silver with black leather please if anyone is feeling generous?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 10:26:37 GMT
How's about this for brown?
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 10, 2023 10:28:11 GMT
"Cars are a bit like music, aren't they? The ones you liked most in your teens/20s are the ones that stick with you for life. There isn't much pre-late-70s music I like, and not much post-90s. Same with cars, innit." Very much so. I had two Alfasuds in my youth - both fairly ratty but what an exhaust note! I would love a Lancia Fulvia coupe. It would remind me of a beautiful lady who drove one in the middle/late 1970s when I was in my early teens. We used to rent the same holiday apartment in Malta for several years and she lived next door. Long hair, long legs and a beautiful car to go with her. Not sure I should tell Espadrille of this ..... What is interesting is that the Italians frequently made rather boring looking family cars but then also built a two-dor coupe with the same name but a totally different and fantastic looking body. Fiat 130 comes to mind similar to the Fulvia; also the Alfetta. Ford gave us the Granada and the Granada Coupe  |
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Post by EspadaIII on Feb 10, 2023 10:28:41 GMT
How's about this for brown? And look at the SM behind it! |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 10:31:14 GMT
How's about this for brown? And look at the SM behind it! Not brown enough. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 10, 2023 10:33:16 GMT
Ford gave us the Granada and the Granada Coupe I like those. Especially brown coupes. I like all the iterations of the Grandad. It just went to pieces with the last generation, re-badged Scorpio and given the face of an amphibian and the arse of an omnibus. |
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