Our first van...

Looks like old Hank was taxed 1 September. I wonder if they have been working on it over the summer and it's now done.
 
Our first, it was great for a quick weekend getaway and for parking, but a bit uncomfortable for longer trips
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This is our first 'van and our only one (the bike was 'orrible and I sold it pdq for a profit !!), but this is our little tin tent. We've always camped one way or another, we married in 1967 and honeymooned in a tent in Buxton and this led us to our first campervan experience. It peed down on us and a couple next to us were in a vast frame tent but also had a VW camper too which they kindly offered to us provided we shared it with the Jack Russel. We soon bought a frame tent from a magazine at the time for 19gns and that lasted us for ten years before being sold on to our baby sitter and we then bought our first caravan, glass windows and gas lights ! followed by three others all geriatrics and at one stage we had two, one here and one in a friends barn in France. When the arthriticals kicked in big time I struggled hand balling the van so it had to go, but we missed it so much that we decided to try for a motorhome, but couldn't afford one, that was until this shewed up, 36,000 miles, 2 owners and cheap, the layout was as we were used to, so we emptied the piggy bank and bought it and joined you lot

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The laird said:
Got my bongo from Ian Taylor in stoke on Trent great guy to deal with imho and he sold a fair ammount of them
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He’s still going selling Toyota’s my cousin bought A Toyota Vellfire from him last year, I bought my Bongo fully converted from Wellhouse Leisure.
 
The laird said:
Imagine the Bentley came back into production bill I bet it would fly off theshelf
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But would they still be built to the same standards?
Or would they have gone the same way most of the other manufacturers have gone ?

All of mine have been Autosleeper but each one has gone down in build quality, and our present one will be our last autosleeper as from seeing and reading about the new ones then I definitely won’t be buying another, which is a shame as the one we have now really works for us, and if it wasn’t for the poor build quality and the way they are now treating their customers, we would have changed it for a newer version,
But I guess this is what happens when they get bought out.
For the last few years they have been relying on their previous reputation, but that is quickly going down the plug hole.
 
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