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6 months earlier we bought our first ever new car, a Hilman Avenger estate as I was totally peed off keeping old wrecks on the road and had a wage rise (and a bank loan) Car cost £967 OTR. However Father-in-law turned up one day with this VW Danbury camper van, brand new. Within 3 months we were besotted and bought our very first MH and Bedford CF based Dormobile Freeway, the posh model with the 2.3 litre engine, fridge, big tyres and 5 gears. £2100 OTR. Two years on I had re-fitted both vehicles to suit our individual requirements. Hi-top roofs replacing the lift up jobs, longer beds, new layout and furniture etc. Although in the interveening years we tried a couple of caravans the dalliance was not long and we always came back to motorhomes. Father-in-law kept the VW until he lost his driving license due to the onset of epilepsy. I had to sell it for him and it was very hard.
Boyfriend's family camped loads when he was younger but my family were more cottage or static caravan types. I camped a couple of times when I was younger and hated it.
Then a couple of years ago, I suddenly decided that I wanted to camp. Bought the tent etc and had a couple of great trips. Then decided that our rather large tent took too long to put up for a weekend away, so bought a smaller tent.
Then camping last year and thought 'wouldn't it be good if we could just pull up and put the handbrake on' - started thinking about a small camper van. The small camper van grew to a larger motorhome when we decided earlier this year that we wanted to travel around Europe longer term
Ticked the other box, we started with the humble 61 VW splitscreen camper and was really great for 20 years,then yearned for more space
and a more modern form of the camper,said hello to motor homes and
been happy ever since
Some fifteen years ago two chaps I knew in the motor trade, Garry Martin and Dave Weller approached me and said did I want to invest £40,000 and join them in a motor home business they were starting at Robertsbridge in an ex Nissan Main dealership.
They were selling used motorhomes and soon took on the Swift Franchise and were also converting the little Dihatsu Hijet into a mini campervan. They actually had an order to convert 50 Hijets for Dihatsu !
In the meantime, as a sleeping partner I kept pumping money into the dealership and Dave eventually left to concentrate on conversions.
After the fire in 2004 ish Gary had had enough and left me lumbered
with something I knew little about and with a now huge investment in money and property which was losing money on a large scale!
Now in 2010 I am still not a lot wiser but we are not losing money any more so must be doing something right and I love the motorhome trade!
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