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[JackieP]

Thanks I'm still nervous of the size of the cab and the distance from the windscreen but I'm sure I'll get used to it by the time I get it home

Mine is the same You'll come to love it. The visibility is superb and it feels very luxurious. Everyone who comes in my van says, wow, what a lot of space you've got here! I grow things along the window - chills and small cactus. There's so much room they don't interfere with my vision at all - and that's another thing - when you're out there, driving with all that glass around it feels amazing.

Enjoy.

 

[Northernraider]

Mine is the same You'll come to love it. The visibility is superb and it feels very luxurious. Everyone who comes in my van says, wow, what a lot of space you've got here! I grow things along the window - chills and small cactus. There's so much room they don't interfere with my vision at all - and that's another thing - when you're out there, driving with all that glass around it feels amazing.

Enjoy.

Ha ha I never thought about a mobile greenhouse there's an idea

 

[JackieP]

Yes, it does attract a bit of attention not all of it welcome. I got noses stuck to my windscreen as people take pictures! I'm going to experiment this winter with small tubs of spinach and lettuce - all firmly secured thanks to the miracle of velcro!

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[Northernraider]

Yes, it does attract a bit of attention not all of it welcome. I got noses stuck to my windscreen as people take pictures! I'm going to experiment this winter with small tubs of spinach and lettuce - all firmly secured thanks to the miracle of velcro!

Ha ha yes although I'd imagine the van gets a lot of attention by itself.

I had that for years when I used to customise vw camper vans, I enjoyed making them stand out etc but sometimes it was like being in a goldfish bowl.
I had a bright green camper van at one point and a trailer/ caravan I had made from the rear end of a mk1 golf.... It looked great and really turned heads but it was a nightmare on dual carriage ways etc.... I could never pull out to overtake as there was always some pillock alongside me gawping and pointing at the half car and taking pictures etc

 

[StitchesnFluff]

Hope it all goes well with you. Thank you for sharing

 

[Mr Chrysalis]

I looked all over the place up here for the right van, looked at a few down south, then by chance the ideal van turned up in Perth so happy days. Hope you get on ok.

Looks lovely! Don't worry about distance to windscreen. When we moved to Aclass earier this year, I thought I would need binoculars, but got used to it in the first 10 miles or so. When I last sat in a coach built, it felt like my nose was touching the screen!

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[MR. FUSION]

Yes I had an A class before but it was a lot smaller, I certainly like the amount of light it let's in not to mention the space.... I viewed the coachbuilt of the same model and it was very claustrophobic in comparison.
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Amazing difference in visibility, between the two !!

 

[Northernraider]

In Birmingham God I'm knackered I think when I pick up the van I'll just go straight to bed

 

[Northernraider]

Picked it up and I'm now in services on the m5.... Jees it's bloody big

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[StitchesnFluff]

Picked it up and I'm now in services on the m5.... Jees it's bloody big

Safe journeys

 

[Northernraider]

Apologies if any if the fifty or so motorhomes that have passed me are funsters..... I'm still crapping myself too much to wave

And the bloody m6 is closed I'm gonna have to find another route home.... I'm in Stafford services now

 

[Carol]

Just caught up had very little internet, WOW that's a beautiful van, I'm sure you will have lots of pleasure in it, just take the journey as it comes no point in getting stressed, where ever the van is that's home , don't forget "your never on the wrong road just a different one."

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[Northernraider]

I do wish I'd brought my maps and satnav with me doh.... Figured it would just be a drive up the m6, came off at j18 and now on the a50 but I believe that's blocked too.... Nightmare don't know this area well at all

 

[Al-Di]

as everyone will be on the A50, try to get over to the A34 and come upt o Manchester that way rejoin m60 at cheadle then round to m61 to go up north onto m6 at preston, long way round i know but you will be moving,

 

[Baileysbus]

I do wish I'd brought my maps and satnav with me doh.... Figured it would just be a drive up the m6, came off at j18 and now on the a50 but I believe that's blocked too.... Nightmare don't know this area well at all

Do you have a mobile with map function on it? Might work at a push to get you back on the M6 again .........

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[Northernraider]

Decided to forget the m6 crossed country to the m1 I'm now just outside Durham think I'll find somewhere to park up for the night I'm. Knackered

 

[irnbru]

Yep call it a night. Enjoy some rest in your new van . Look forward to seeing it next month. Does it have a name?

 

[Northernraider]

Yep call it a night. Enjoy some rest in your new van . Look forward to seeing it next month. Does it have a name?

I've not christened it yet I'll have to give it some thought

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[busby]

Frankia I luxury 840bd 2008

By gum,,there is plenty of money in Scotland,,,or WAS,,,BUSBY

 

[Pia]

Frankia I luxury 840bd 2008

WOW....you have a lot of beautiful MH there to enjoy....have you given it a 'wow' worthy name? enjoy your travels

 

[Northernraider]

WOW....you have a lot of beautiful MH there to enjoy....have you given it a 'wow' worthy name? enjoy your travels

I'm thinking "lady francis" franky for short


Moving in to it at present running out of space

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[Rob and Val]

Glad you got back safely. It really is a beautiful MH. Hope the weather stays fine while you are transferring stuff into it.

 

[Northernraider]

Glad you got back safely. It really is a beautiful MH. Hope the weather stays fine while you are transferring stuff into it.

Spent the night at beamish and tottered home this morning I have to say she drives lovely.
Think I'm going to have to go through my belongings again and discard some more this van is designed for 6 people lol and I'm running out of wardrobe space

Reversing camera doesn't work which means getting it in the drive isn't happening so having to load her up in the street

On the positive side though I'm fairly entertaining my neighbours

 

[Pia]

I'm thinking "lady francis" franky for short


Moving in to it at present running out of space

...love the name.......running out of space...happen to us all

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[Stretto Boy]

What a superb looking motorhome. I'm very jealous. Don't forget that, with a van of that length, you will probably find that the front and rear have their own separate microclimates.

Front:

Rear:

I wish you many years of fun with it.

 

[Jenny Andrews]

Train Ticket booked, insurance sorted, half the money paid ( glad I checked the max amount I could transfer in one go that could have been embarrassing) so all set to collect my new to me MH tomorrow

Don't think I'll sleep a wink tonight

Incidentally the fecking train ticket cost the same price as a years road tax
Public transport pffft

 

[Jenny Andrews]

Yes would agree re checking payment by banking,when we brought our van privately the seller did not like the thought of a bankers draft, our bank could not give us £28,000 cash,so we agreed with seller to do a bank transfer on line from our account while they watched it being carried out,seemed safe way to do it, tried to transfer money then bank message,please call this number,they advised we could only transfer £10,000 per 24hrs so thought set up two further dates for remainder,wrong another please call bank this time they explained Only £10,000 per day,so here we are in Liverpool £10,000 paid but can't pay the rest until the next Two days we offered seller if we stayed the night in the motorhome we could hopfully pay another £10,000, the next day,
as we live in Sussex we could hardly pop back for two days,further payments,
Take the motorhome she said you both seem to be trustworthy and transfer when you get home,this we did but a lesson on trying to obtain your own money learned. Apart from saving the embarrassment,
great there are still some honest and trustworthy people.

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[Northernraider]

I wasn't quite so bad my daily limit was £25k so I transferred some the day before collecting and did the balance when there

Very trusting of them to allow you to take the van away before the had the money

 

[Anthea M]

Glad the journey home was safe ! It can be a bum clenching excersise the first time and I was just the passenger and ours was only 61/2 metres long!
A lovely van and now soon to be your home!
Congratulations to a big new adventure in 'lady Francis' .. Aka Frankie!!!
Let us know how you get on!! Always someone to chat to on here !!

 

[Northernraider]

Glad the journey home was safe ! It can be a bum clenching excersise the first time and I was just the passenger and ours was only 61/2 metres long!
A lovely van and now soon to be your home!
Congratulations to a big new adventure in 'lady Francis' .. Aka Frankie!!!
Let us know how you get on!! Always someone to chat to on here !!

The next challenge will be getting it in to my mother's drive which we have to do today, the reversing camera isn't working which is a real pain ( need to get that looked at somehow) as it's currently still parked in the street. So will have to get my sister and brother in law to keep watch for obstacles as I manoeuvre it in

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