Life before motorhome (1 Viewer)

[Jaws]

So we have had a life before computer thread. though a 'Life Before Motorhome' thread might be worth while

This is 1981 in Cornwall.
Three kids and all the camping gear.. Of course the obvious choice of vehicle was a ..

Bloody Mini Traveler !!

 

[Lenny HB]

So you were a nutter back then things don't change.

 

[Judge Mental]

I'll have to get the scanner out!

looks like you knew as much about over loading a rear axle then as you do now!

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[Forestboy]

You haven't changed a bit.

 

[Jaws]

So you were a nutter back then things don't change.

Yup.. apart from being a fat bald git nowadays I aint really changed very much !

 

[makems]

Our first camping car was also a mini traveller. However I used to get a LOT more on the roof rack than you appear to have managed John!
Including a folding travel cot for our JULIA who is now 36.
Strangely enough it would also have been 1981!

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[Jaws]

Welllll.. By that time we were very experienced campers and knew what was needed and what wasn't Minimalism tended to be the rule !

 

[Wildbill]

going to have to dig out the picks
bill

 

[icantremember]

I think your son must have been nicking your hair!

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[Yorick]

It's amazing what you can get on a GSXR

Always took big tent and chairs

 

[KeithChesterfield]

The good old days ......

 

[Judge Mental]

The good old days ......

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love it..that was us up in the lakes one Easter, except winds so high you could not stand up and tent was flattened with every gust

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[Chris]

The good old days ......

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I feel damp and cold just looking at that photo

 

[CWH]

Internal dimensions

Weather proof

Throwing the windows open

Transport

 

[Autowbars]

Back in early eight's we had a cortina estate, seats down that was a twin bed, sleeping bags, tailgate up and cooked under whatever the weather, we thought is was great.
Different every night , didn't do much in winter tho, went all over UK, and a bit in France for the booze and fags, 200 cig limit them days, sometimes stopped at Dover and did the hovercraft a few times a day for the cheap fags.
Return trips were two quid.

Few days down there, filled up with fags an beer etc

Now a non smoker and a bit more civilised apart from a fridge full o beer in MH

Turn up wherever, turn of ignition, swing seat, open fridge.

HEAVEN

Bed fairly early and move on

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[GJH]

We first went tent camping in 1980, the year we got our first car. We camped each year until 1988 when a combination of two house burglaries and the (then) car being written off meant we changed our plans. I never went tent camping again but Jill and the lads continued to go to ECWS re-enactment events with tents.

 

[Daz n Tina]

clampits on tour

 

[mustaphapint]

On our way to Spain 2000
The South of France 2001
In the Pyrenees 2011 - on 2 bikes now
On our way to Sicily 2014

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[golly]

1982 Don't get too excited by the sight of my bare legs

Lads week 1985 ish

1988 I think