Only £10k

No good for the places I go especially in the Cornish lanes. I’ll stick with my transit self built thanks. 😁

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I suspect your average UK camp site would have a fit if you turned up in that. £10K is the auction starting price. I would also want to check it is within the scope of a C1E licence. You would think they might mention the weight?

For someone wanting a "cheap house extension" have a look at static caravans. We paid £4K for a good 30ft static nearly 10 years ago now, including delivery.
 
ProDave said:
I suspect your average UK camp site would have a fit if you turned up in that. £10K is the auction starting price. I would also want to check it is within the scope of a C1E licence. You would think they might mention the weight?

For someone wanting a "cheap house extension" have a look at static caravans. We paid £4K for a good 30ft static nearly 10 years ago now, including delivery.
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Says HGV licence required.
 
Be interesting to see what it goes for. Without seeing it of course we have no idea what its like. Could be a money pit.

Where would you go with something that size?
 
Just a few comments ...
American RV Build Quality is very poor and nothing like European RVs. And the according value reflects that.
Any spares required could end up needed a long wait to be first found in some US scrapyard and then transported over the Atlantic.
That vehicle is quoted as being 42 foot in length? That is longer than the permissible length of a 'Motor Caravan' in UK and EU. It might be registered as something else maybe, be anything 40' or more is a non-goer as a motorhome here. (This is one why you don't see the giant monsters here). Chances are the length is actually recorded as 12 Metres on any official documentation to get round that. (I remember a chat I had at a camp site with one owner of an American RV and he said he had knocked off a few inches from the actual length to get it legally registered - and that was a 40 footer.

£10k? I wouldn't pay close to that.
 
Looks to be very dodgy registration, AFAIK it's over width for a UK motorcaravan, also I note it's registered as 2 axles when the photo shows it has three axles.
 
Regardless of the spares, getting a mechanic who understands the complexities of the steering, air suspension and brakes in the UK would be virtually impossible. I subscribe to the Bus Grease Monkey channel, and he gets old coaches in all the time where the owners have spent thousands in workshops, and the work has either not been done or done badly, not to mention the engine/gearbox then the habitation stuff, you need to either well heeled of vey good at engineering to figure it all out.


But at the right price the one in the trailer would be a good place to live for a while, but not here.
 
They should have registered it as tag axle bus it's GVWR will be over 20t hence the HGV requirement. A very limited market for an old RV.
 
The worst part of owning American vehicles these days is the cost of shipping and duty on parts. Importing from the EU isn't much better. Actually finding stuff has never been easier thanks t'tinternet. Large stuff tends to be about 6 weeks from the USA. its often longer than that from uk MH manufacturers.
Love the name. 🤣

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Might make a good addition to some of these quirky glamping sites that are popping up that people seem prepared to pay per night the price that not long ago would have got you a night in the Savoy.

You would probably get £300+ per night rental in the right place.
 
barryd said:
Might make a good addition to some of these quirky glamping sites that are popping up that people seem prepared to pay per night the price that not long ago would have got you a night in the Savoy.

You would probably get £300+ per night rental in the right place.
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That's about all it's good for here in the UK, imho 🤷‍♀️
 
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