daveyboydanger
Good morning all,
I've been planning to buy a relatively high spec year old panel van and then slowly do it up (insulate, line, carpet, floor, windows, rail seating and pop top).
It's been a dream of mine for a long time that I tried to achieve a few years back with a brilliantly orange ex-RAC t5. She didn't quite make it! The van was so tired and ready to die. I had to quit while I was only a little behind before I lost everything on her.
I'd decided to go newer for reliability and had been speccing things up, stalking the t4forum and dreaming.
Then I started looking properly at the maths. Getting a beach seemed to make so much sense.
It was like a penny dropping moment. I would have all that I wanted in a new van, expertly designed and fitted and warrantied! Plus the brilliance of having a 'real camper van' California!
I'm so excited. And now my wife is too! She's a lot happier with the 'buying it done' plan!
We're going to continue saving for the rest of the year and hopefully order something around autumn (is it around 20weeks build time?) for a '16 plate piece of paradise!
I suppose I'd appreciate any help on what to spec (we can't do much more than entry level though), where to buy (anyone tried buyacar.com?), what to know, best insurers etc.
I can't wait to join the club!
dave
I've been planning to buy a relatively high spec year old panel van and then slowly do it up (insulate, line, carpet, floor, windows, rail seating and pop top).
It's been a dream of mine for a long time that I tried to achieve a few years back with a brilliantly orange ex-RAC t5. She didn't quite make it! The van was so tired and ready to die. I had to quit while I was only a little behind before I lost everything on her.
I'd decided to go newer for reliability and had been speccing things up, stalking the t4forum and dreaming.
Then I started looking properly at the maths. Getting a beach seemed to make so much sense.
It was like a penny dropping moment. I would have all that I wanted in a new van, expertly designed and fitted and warrantied! Plus the brilliance of having a 'real camper van' California!
I'm so excited. And now my wife is too! She's a lot happier with the 'buying it done' plan!
We're going to continue saving for the rest of the year and hopefully order something around autumn (is it around 20weeks build time?) for a '16 plate piece of paradise!
I suppose I'd appreciate any help on what to spec (we can't do much more than entry level though), where to buy (anyone tried buyacar.com?), what to know, best insurers etc.
I can't wait to join the club!
dave
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