@Majorlatency I had a camper Vanagon in college and I can tell you that you can fit at least three really big bongs in there. And a keg with its associated bucket.
@SubstantialKick the option for a 3-seat bench with no transmission tunnel in a car that could theoretically hit 240mph in the 80s was very intriguing to me back in the day, even though it wasn't as pretty as Italian cars, and at the time that Knight Rider dash seemed pretty cool
@SW-User a chick that knows about cars. I'm impressed 🤭
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@Lilymoon The only porsche I liked before the current version was the version in bad boys. This 992 version has me in love with Porsche again, and wishing I'd worked harder in life.
@Eddiesolds it was an 18 years birthday present, though i got it the following spring, 2017 - no point launching a new car in the middle of Ukrainian winter.
@Stereoguy I could never ask someone to do something for free. I didnt even know what to say. His buddy was standing right there. It was weird. I wanted to kick his ass.lol
@Synyster Yes it was alot fun. We used to all go downtown to the Ywca.wed hand until late , then go racing. We were all show offs! Lmao! I miss Drive-Ins also. Those were good times.
@Eddiesolds Haha We did that too. There's a street in Ottawa called Carling Ave and all the cars would meet up at Dunkin Donuts and in the parking lot next door. We'd race up and down the street, light to light. Cops didn't care back then. Just a ton of fun. Yeah, drive in movie theaters were a lot of fun.
@JoeyFoxx isnt that the bus that would blow up if it got rear ended and had a thing for ejecting the kid seat out onto the highway lol i got a story bout one of them but it wasnt its fault lol
the only time I ever saw one of these in the flesh it was wrecked, in the fenced parking lot of a small automotive repair shop, in a small town on the isolated, rural NorCal coast
all the more intriguing considering how few of these were built
@Whyme That picture is close to the one I had. I was too young to appreciate it for what it was... just loved the way it looked. I can't even remember an exact year for it.
Not mine but I had a later version, with deeper windscreen; and original rigid, rather than lifting, roof.
It is one of the original "[i]Dormobile[/i]" motor-caravans, by Martin-Walker Conversions, based on the [i]Vauxhall-Bedford CA van [/i]of 15cwt capacity.
That shown is of late-150s or early-1960s vintage. The word "Dormobile" even became a generic for caravanettes for quite a long time.
Its four seats can be folded flat to form either two single beds with a narrow central aisle, or moved together to form a double. Behind the rear seats are a small sink unit and gas-cooker, with the bottle contained in a cylindrical locker sunk into the floor. There was also room for a cool-box such as I had, using water evaporating from porous plaster walls around an aluminium box.
You could drive these with the front doors open, as they slide. A canvas strap rivetted to the door pillar to loop round the handle, held the door open.
I enjoyed using mine, both as daily transport and for holidays.
Mechanically: the same 1600cc, carburetted, petrol engine (or optionally a Perkins Diesel engine) as fitted to the larger Vauxhall saloon cars, mated to 3-speed, later 4-speed manual gearbox with column change-lever. Rear-wheel drive. Though heavy work it was technically easy to replace the 3-speed with a 4-speed unit, as I did.
The engine and gearbox are under the scuttle, using a large enclosure between the footwells. The panels are easily removable for servicing.
One weak point was the many, too-simple joints in the rod links from accelerator pedal all the way round to the carburettor on the opposite side of the engine. I made and fitted brass bushes to mine to remove all the lost motion due to wear. They also tended to wear the king-pin bush, a somewhat complicated thing in the wishbone suspension, and I became fairly adept at replacing these, using a jacks and baulks of timber to support the vehicle safely and a second jack to compress the coil spring against the van's weight.
It’s not pretty and defined from an era where the Tech was at the same level of horse and buggy, But it’s the car that hooked me when I was 6 years old.
