Folowing on from my intro....I've decided to buy a motorhome and travel all over europe, I don't have much knowledge at all but I do know what I want/need.
It'll be just me & my wife and although 60 & 58 we are both fit cyclists and hikers, we don't want a big van to live in, we want a small van to sleep in, with a bathroom. It seems that the old Autosleeper Symphony (& variants) would be fine, I like old stuff and am not bothered by age, my scooter is 1962, my car 1992, both are maintained and neither give any problems. The problem for me is that the interiors must be like living in a kaleidoscope.....
A bit newer and I've looked at the Trigano Tributes, newer still & I do like the look of the Murvi Morello, any issues I should be looking at with these?
So that's the type of van we'd want, small, manouverable, easy to park anywhere. Reliable, not bothered about performance. We need a decent sized double bed as I'm 6', a chamfered is ok as my wife is a pipsqueak. Kitchen area can be small, it's not that important to us (I don't think) but a bathroom is neccessary.
Budget? I saw an 2003 Autosleeper on Ebay yesterday for £12K, it'd have been perfect, it sold in about 2 hours! At that price a few bumps & scrapes & non functioning stuff wouldn't bother me at all. But I can double that figure, maybe a bit more and am not too bothered about residual values.
I work rotating shifts so a reply might not alwasy be quick, but I'II definitely read any replies. I'm based near Leeds.
It'll be just me & my wife and although 60 & 58 we are both fit cyclists and hikers, we don't want a big van to live in, we want a small van to sleep in, with a bathroom. It seems that the old Autosleeper Symphony (& variants) would be fine, I like old stuff and am not bothered by age, my scooter is 1962, my car 1992, both are maintained and neither give any problems. The problem for me is that the interiors must be like living in a kaleidoscope.....
A bit newer and I've looked at the Trigano Tributes, newer still & I do like the look of the Murvi Morello, any issues I should be looking at with these?
So that's the type of van we'd want, small, manouverable, easy to park anywhere. Reliable, not bothered about performance. We need a decent sized double bed as I'm 6', a chamfered is ok as my wife is a pipsqueak. Kitchen area can be small, it's not that important to us (I don't think) but a bathroom is neccessary.
Budget? I saw an 2003 Autosleeper on Ebay yesterday for £12K, it'd have been perfect, it sold in about 2 hours! At that price a few bumps & scrapes & non functioning stuff wouldn't bother me at all. But I can double that figure, maybe a bit more and am not too bothered about residual values.
I work rotating shifts so a reply might not alwasy be quick, but I'II definitely read any replies. I'm based near Leeds.