Vannoir

[Derf]

Here's 'Vannoir' my self build T4.
It's my daily drive and used in the main for canoeing / kayaking but I get out and about in it at weekends whenever I can (even if it's just local). Wildcamp whenever I can although as I have 4 sons if they come with me I pack the awning and use a site (it's fitted for an electric hook up)

I spent a cracking week up in the Highlands / Isle of Skye last summer wild camping - the van far exceeded my expectations of it and more than fulfilled what I built it for, I was stunned into silence when it returned 41mpg over the best terrain Glen Affric and Skye could throw at it (and that was with the canoe on the roof!), I'm planning on going back up that way this year and venturing into the rest of the Hebrides.

 

[horshamjack]

Good Job

Well done Derf .
The Interior looks very nice a good fit out . Hope you get many a trouble free trip out of her
The Jack looks like it's enjoying the outdoors too... ours comes everywhere with us

 

[ellisboy]

That's a nice looking van! :banana:

 

[caledonia]

Braw stealth camper you have there. I have a black t5 and get away in it most weekends. Heading back to the hebrides for two or three weeks again this summer. Kayak will be my next purchase i reckon, got an inflatable one but one like yours will hopefully be coming soon. Got to get enough brownie points first.

 

[Brian the snail]

Well Done Derf,

Vannoir looks the business, jealous of the MPG.

:fun:

Clive

 

[Psychoman]

Interesting - what's your cooking/fridge set up?

 

[Derf]

I use a 12v/240v cool box I picked up in Lidls, mainly run off the leisure battery. I've built a cooking pod with a Go outdoors 2 hob / grill gas stove fixed to a heavily modified B&Q 300mm kitchen unit. I would have used a 600mm but that would have been too long to use in the van on the O/S wall with the bed down, so built a bespoke cupboard to my own dimensions using a 300mm cupboard. I generally cook outside and the whole thing lifts in and out.

Behind the passenger seat is a neat little cupboard that holds my water carrier. The door of it flips up to form a small table. I found it on ebay for a tenner. A bloke 1/2 mile up the road from me made it but decided on swivel seats up front in his T4 so put it on ebay on the off chance. I was the only bidder and he was going to burn it if it didn't sell, I think it's quite ingenious. I simply recovered some of it in anthracite to match my interior (it was all grey).

I'm quite fond of finding novel solutions for problems, a bug bear of T4's is that there is no cup holder so I decided to make my own as the plastic ones you can buy looked too flimsy or fitted in the wrong place. If you look on the dashboard you'll see my solution was to cut the bottom off a dog food tin and carpet it. My go outdoors tin mug fits perfectly into it if I want a hot drink, for cold drinks a can sits just right inside the tin mug. For an added bonus, the whole thing covers up quite a few phone holder type holes the previous owner(s) stuck in the top of the dash.

The overhead locker above the O/S window is scratch built by me. I'm not exactly Jesus when it comes to carpentry and there's not a straight edge on it but fortunately the fabric covering it disguises it well. I'm rather proud of it truth be known, I like to think it's all the little imperfections that add to the van's charm and character.

 

[Rodeo]

Nice set up.

 

[phillybarbour]

Looks like yr having great fun in the outdoors with the van.

 

[Randonneur]

You have the set-up that suits you and you're out and about using it.

Exactly what wildcamping is all about!! :wave:

 

[shawbags]

Here's 'Vannoir' my self build T4.
It's my daily drive and used in the main for canoeing / kayaking but I get out and about in it at weekends whenever I can (even if it's just local). Wildcamp whenever I can although as I have 4 sons if they come with me I pack the awning and use a site (it's fitted for an electric hook up)

I spent a cracking week up in the Highlands / Isle of Skye last summer wild camping - the van far exceeded my expectations of it and more than fulfilled what I built it for, I was stunned into silence when it returned 41mpg over the best terrain Glen Affric and Skye could throw at it (and that was with the canoe on the roof!), I'm planning on going back up that way this year and venturing into the rest of the Hebrides.

Nice van , second picture down proper wild camping ! great .