Re: The Crappy Hamper Thread
Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:30 am
I like Hymers. Proper actual Motorised Caravans.
Bangernomics wrote: ↑Mon Feb 22, 2021 10:15 am I’m a fan of the old T2, I had a J REG early T2 bay that had a right cobbled mix of split running gear. The front axle snapped on the coast road going to formby whilst working over there and staying in digs in Halton (right shithole but had a pay phone you could easily fiddle for free calls).
I bought it in 90/91 for £500 it was rotten and spent almost every evening and weekend for two months cutting and welding the bottom back on using bits of old washing machine sides as we were skint at the time but saw it as a cheap way for a holiday.
I’ll dig a photo out of it from somewhere later.
Aha found one albeit a shit one.
I sold it about three years later for about £1k just before they started to get stupid pricewise obviously.
Then a long gap as the former Mrs B hated it so when she was fired off I bought a 30 year old C25 based hymer,
that promptly shit it’s head gasket on the way back from buying it in Dorchester and so I spent a month pulling it to bits and going over the top replacing everything I touched. We did almost a month driving round France in it without too much fuss and it basically was cheaper than a month of (as mercrocker said) seaside lunches and with the convenience of a shower and a loo and a double bed.
Bought for £5k and sold for the same as I bought another on the spur of the moment for what was a very good price at the time a 1997 hymer but sprinter auto based.
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Only £13.5k and when we bought this place in France I decided we wouldn’t be using one for a couple of years so I sold it on for £17.5k which was a bonus but it’d probably fetch an easy £20k now as covid has made the market crazy.
I’m currently browsing leboncoin as I miss a convenient & clean WC and a choc ice that doesn’t cost me £10.
Less annoying tag line.
Johnny 5 alive!
CLASS 8 The keeping or storing of a caravan, campervan or boat within the curtilage of a house.
1. Not more than one caravan, campervan or boat shall be so kept or stored.
2. The caravan, campervan or boat shall not be used for the storage, display, advertisement or sale of goods or for the purposes of any business.
3. No caravan, campervan or boat shall be so kept or stored for more than 9 months in any year or occupied as a dwelling while so kept or stored.
Mine has a similar thing, I’m sure there was something about vans or trade vehicles as well, it’s ok though as calling it an “ ExecutiveDevelopment” kept the Riff Raff out.