What was your first camper van/motor home?

Bought for me to live in when I'm at work, now got a Bailey 730 :)
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Dad had a campervan but he also used to have frame tents,tourers, static, and trailer tents Malcolm and I our first Motorhome was a Ford transit have a photo somewhere then we had the Eldiss autostrautus and the one we have now but we’ve also had tents,statics and tourers the first photo is my dad’s van
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Spent many a happy night sleeping in an Austin Maxi the seats converted into a double bed.

Our first "proper" motorhome was a 1990 Elddis Autostratus, purchased unseen in 1992 and a brilliant introduction into the lifestyle. Ran it for 8 years and sold it for £500 more than we paid.
 
CliveW said:
Spent many a happy night sleeping in an Austin Maxi the seats converted into a double bed.
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In 1969 we went camping to Cornwall in a Maxi, thought it was great. This was a precursor to the the summer holidays.......
When in August with my folks we drove (through the iron curtain!) to West Berlin in a Maxi, my sister was in the RAF and was stationed at RAF Gatow. Driving along the old nazi Bundesautobahn 2 was interesting, rough concrete surface and some of the bridges were like shallow hump backs covered in cobbles. Apparently this was because they needed to be strong enough to take the weight of panzers! Taking a wrong turn towards Magdeburg ensured we got an East German military escort for the rest of the drive towards the Helmstedt checkpoint!
I was a teenager at the time, driving through the border defences you could see that the tanks and the big guns that were ‘on station’ were purely for show, they were covered in layers of paint and evidently hadn’t moved in years....
 
Who decides on these stupid prices I wonder. The whole things just getting out of control now, same as banger racing & mz series bike racing did. Started off as affordable for all then as they got popular it just went silly so ordinary folk couldn't afford it.....
 
GreggBear said:
Who decides on these stupid prices I wonder. The whole things just getting out of control now, same as banger racing & mz series bike racing did. Started off as affordable for all then as they got popular it just went silly so ordinary folk couldn't afford it.....
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Ain’t that the truth!
 
Thats more than a California. Ok, it's a high spec van but it's not even a 4 motion.

I'd be wanting top spec Seikel mods for that money.
 
GreggBear said:
Who decides on these stupid prices I wonder. The whole things just getting out of control now, same as banger racing & mz series bike racing did. Started off as affordable for all then as they got popular it just went silly so ordinary folk couldn't afford it.....
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I know where there is a real 125 water cooled single in co Antrim, here is the 250 twin.
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Our first motor home and still is. Slowly being devoured by rampant tin worm, and bits refusing to work, we still love it. After decades of tents and caravans we bought this 1997 Lunar, we curse it and throw abuse at it, but like a faithful puppy, it still works for Sue and I
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Looks as this may also be the last too !!!!!!! We've had three welding garages look at the tin worm problem and each scenario is worse than the previous one. Anyway, yesterday was Sue's 75th birthday and as we sat down to lunch with son and granddaughter the 'phone rang and a specialist commercial welder (whom I've been trying to tie down for a while) said he could have a look today yippee thought I; Anyway just got back and it seems likely that extent of rot is fairly close to terminal, we'll know within the next couple of weeks.
Oh poo, poo, poo
 
oppy said:
Looks as this may also be the last too !!!!!!! We've had three welding garages look at the tin worm problem and each scenario is worse than the previous one. Anyway, yesterday was Sue's 75th birthday and as we sat down to lunch with son and granddaughter the 'phone rang and a specialist commercial welder (whom I've been trying to tie down for a while) said he could have a look today yippee thought I; Anyway just got back and it seems likely that extent of rot is fairly close to terminal, we'll know within the next couple of weeks.
Oh poo, poo, poo
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Congratulations on Sue's birthday, what a shame that the previous MOT's were carried out so poorly. If you'd had known sooner the job would have been smaller :(
 
Unfortunately we don’t have any original photos of our beloved Avondale Seascape. We bought it with 6k miles on the clock in 1996. It was the 5-ELX, there were a couple of variants available before they went bust.

It was always going to be too small for us, but it took about 6 or 7 years for us to realise this because everywhere we went for years the weather was fabulous (apart from our own local weather!) we could live outside! I added an outside bbq point and a few other mods which did prolong ownership.

The body is cast in one piece which is fantastic because damp issues didn’t exist. We spent 13 years travelling all over Europe without any problems at all apart from a water pump replacement in Belgium.

We paid £21k for it and sold it for £12,500 in 2019. All things considered I’m happy with that.

We now have a Chausson 630 which is fantastic, but unlike the Avondale it took way way too long to make it so.

 
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