Pictures of older motorhomes?

Watching this thread has brought back so many happy memories from the past, and makes me realise why I enjoy motorhoming so much. Back then there wasn't any of your Hi tech gizmos as there are today and to honest, I found it was much more enjoyable for it. Using paper maps to get from A to B. No TV, no broardband,no microwves etc etc Loved it
 
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Lol,
The guy that is selling it doesn’t own it! Look closer as he is a regular scammer. The clue is in the photo of his email and for a laugh take a look at his other items at ridiculous prices
No he doesn't own it, I'm sat in it right now. Just a chancer.

Jock reported it to eBay a few days ago and it got removed only for that new advert going on today.
 
One of my dad's vans.dad,mum 2of us kids one sometimes 2 dogs.
Seemed big enough at the time.
Photo was at the seal caves caravan park on achill island,co mayo,Ireland.
We still go at least once every year..

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No he doesn't own it, I'm sat in it right now. Just a chancer.

Jock reported it to eBay a few days ago and it got removed only for that new advert going on today.


It’s really grim that he is allowed to continue, I reported his ads a few times. Albeit eBay take them down only to reappear a few days later.
 
Jock reported it to eBay a few days ago and it got removed only for that new advert going on today.
I've just reported him again. I really don't want anyone getting sucked in by this scumbag. :mad:

Cheers,

Jock. :)
 
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Parked next to us a few years back at the Bristol Balloon festival, a 1980s BMW Vixen. As I recall, there was always someone around having a look.

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I remember seeing that at the balloon fiesta, if it’s the same one and it looks like it is, the owner was Steve Beeny of Beeny Boxes, they were the drawers he’s designed and manufactured to fit into the skirts of Motorhomes, he showed us the inside, it was awesome, a very clever bloke we later visited his yard behind his house in Cornwall, he had a full miniature railway that he built wit engine sheds and all sorts, the Vixen he had had a BMW engine.
 
I remember seeing that at the balloon fiesta, if it’s the same one and it looks like it is, the owner was Steve Beeny of Beeny Boxes, they were the drawers he’s designed and manufactured to fit into the skirts of Motorhomes, he showed us the inside, it was awesome, a very clever bloke we later visited his yard behind his house in Cornwall, he had a full miniature railway that he built wit engine sheds and all sorts, the Vixen he had had a BMW engine.
It is the same one, we were next to it and if memory serves, JockandRita were in the row in front.

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Ah, well to be honest all our fleet of coaches were AEC's with the 760 power unit as we spent more time on the continent with the coaches than we did here in the UK but then it all went a bit Pete Tongue due to the BL fiasco and so we moved onto Setra's. But We did convert a Bedford Val into a motorhome and very good it was too. The little Bedford shown in the photo took us all over Europe in the ten or so years we had it.
 
Ah, well to be honest all our fleet of coaches were AEC's with the 760 power unit as we spent more time on the continent with the coaches than we did here in the UK but then it all went a bit Pete Tongue due to the BL fiasco and so we moved onto Setra's. But We did convert a Bedford Val into a motorhome and very good it was too. The little Bedford shown in the photo took us all over Europe in the ten or so years we had it.
Ah, I now can see the Dormobile parked up up behind the Reliance!
My attention was initially pricked because I was a Service Engineer at AEC in the late 60s. BTW you were lucky your fleet had 760s as they didn't suffer from so much overheating and consequent piston pickup and seizure as the 691s. Did they have the ZF 6 speed gearbox?
 
They did indeed. We bought our first AEC in 1968 CMB825F and that had the 691 in it but we never suffered any issues with it at all. Next was the year after with KMB603G with the newer Plaxton body. After that we just went full steam ahead with AEC's and a few YRQ to fill in when we couldn't get our fleet requirements. We did buy a Leopard WMA744J and although a real flying machine it ate brakes. We had an engineer from AEC St Helens come and look over our purchases when they were new and we only bought one that needed attention, the very first one and it needed a new steering box. I went to Scarborough to collect it and when I got back to our then premises in West Timperley my arms were well and truly frazzled. Mr. Fox was the name of the engineer, he opened up a whole new way of preventive maintenance for us for which we were ever grateful.
 
Mr. Fox was the name of the engineer, he opened up a whole new way of preventive maintenance for us for which we were ever grateful.
I operated out of the Nottingham Depot so didn't know anyone from St.Helens. My patch was the East Midlands and East Anglia. AEC's engine design had been based on wet liner engines and when they moved to dry liner they started with a block cast with side walls too thick. The 760 obviously had thinner liners and that helped heat dissipation. Hey Ho.

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It is the same one, we were next to it and if memory serves, JockandRita were in the row in front.
Ah yes, I remember now. Thanks. 👍
That was a good few years ago. 😉

It was a lovely looking vehicle, almost like something out of Thunderbirds. Unfortunately, neither Rita nor I got to view the interior layout. 😕

Cheers,

Jock. 🙂
 
Brillian pictures everyone.
We love seeing older vans on the road and when parked up. Often ask owners for a look inside too, think they are pleased others appreciate their pride and joy.
Keep posting please.
 
My last spltty have had to many to list tbh,

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..and only five years later, Martin Walter made this, our first camper van. A 1970 Dormobile D4/6. We bought it in late 1978. We kept it for ten years or more, but once two children became three, we also brought a Rapido folding caravan, which we towed behind this old VW. Though by then, it had a more powerful engine conversion following a piston/valve failure.

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..and only five years later, Martin Walter made this, our first camper van. A 1970 Dormobile D4/6. We bought it in late 1978. We kept it for ten years or more, but once two children became three, we also brought a Rapido folding caravan, which we towed behind this old VW. Though by then, it had a more powerful engine conversion following a piston/valve failure.

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the reson i change van's because 5 of us in a splity was a bit cramped :LOL:
 

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