We sold Percy, our lovely Lunar Premier coachbuilt back in September to a guy who was going to drive him down to the Costa Del Sol in November & park him on a camp site for 3 months.
Despite having only had 3 days off this year we missed him so badly, particularly on our Sunday afternoon walking/cycling jaunts, that we bought ourselves a little Christmas present.
On Saturday I couldn't sleep so at 4am I did a search for camper vans & found two locally. Within 12 hours we had paid for, taxed & insured "Geoffrey". He is a 1993 Volkswagen T4 Converted by Richard Holdsworth to a Villa XL High Top in 1994.
He is well travelled & has done many countries in Europe. Everything about him, except the cab radio, is original & in good condition. He has a full service history & the last owner kept every receipt for work done & new batteries, tyres etc. We even have the original typed & photocopied manual & the warranty certificate dated 19/10/1994. The previous owners loved him so much that the lady of the the house tried to be out when Phill collected him yesterday, because seeing him go would upset her too much.
We already had a lunch out booked so we took Geoffrey to Wales yesterday. We walked along the canal & then christened him properly.
We sat in him, by the canal in the Brecon Beacons & made a couple of mugs of tea & drank them with a muddy dog.
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This is what we missed & I am so glad we are back!
If anyone else has a Richard Holdsworth conversion we'd love to hear about it too.
