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June 30th, 2009

I bought this camper van ten years ago today

ten years of campervanning

According to the registration document I bought this campervan on 30 June 1999. It has accompanied me on holidays, house moves, festivals, travels and excursions. It has been used for many significant events, such as the departure vehicle on our wedding day and it even carried my canvasses to the Lambeth Conference.

Unfortunately for various reasons I need to sell it. I know I’ve said that before, but this time I mean it. It is likely I will be posting it on Ebay this weekend. I expect it to make in the region of 1000 to 2000 pounds, but it is very difficult to tell with these things. It will need to go for an MOT in the next few days, which of course it might fail. In summary: it is a VW Type 25 1988 1.6 turbo diesel (’turbo diesel’ is industry jargon for ‘a bit slow’, but it isn’t too bad). It goes and somebody could enjoy using it over the summer. Structurally it is sound, but cosmetically the bodywork is poor (worse than in this picture) owing to my incompetence. There are some other (hopefully) minor faults which I will explain when I do the advert. The interior is superb – better than most similarly aged vans on Ebay at the moment.

My other posts about this and other campervans are here.

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This is a single Cartoon Blog entry, posted by Dave on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 at 8:18 pm.

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6 Responses to “I bought this camper van ten years ago today”


  1. David Keen says:

    If you did an original cartoon on the side, that would probably raise the value by several hundred quid. Or you could set fire to it and put it in a Banksy exhibition, but then that probably wouldn’t make you any money.

    If it fails the MOT, you could sell it as a static caravan with special features (like a steering wheel).

    July 1st, 2009 at 8:02 am
  2. Dave says:

    Unfortunately decoration tends to devalue camper vans. But I will bear in mind your suggestions when i come to write my ebay advert.

    July 1st, 2009 at 8:09 am
  3. Peter Kirk says:

    If it fails really badly, you could do with it what I saw had been done with one (an original 70s type) in Australia. Cut it in half lengthways, a vertical cut, and mount the two halves as a matching pair of gates. Mind you, you need a lot of space for that, more likely to be found in the Australian outback than in Basildon.

    July 1st, 2009 at 12:14 pm
  4. Jaded for Jesus says:

    I’m with David Keen; the option of a cartoon on the side would be brilliant!

    Shame we’ll never see “God Pod” emblazoned on the side, though. Or will we…?

    July 1st, 2009 at 5:04 pm
  5. David Keen says:

    How about an auction at Greenbelt, if you can get it there? Then whoever buys it can drive the thing away, and you don’t have the problems about delivery.

    The only problem I can forsee is that you then have to find another way of getting home…

    July 4th, 2009 at 8:55 am
  6. Denouncing Dave Walker | Seven whole days says:

    [...] Now I have found out new information that is even more worrying. It seems that Dave Walker’s “Cartoon Blog” is no such thing. I encourage you to visit. You’ll notice that the last two entries (first, second) are actually about his camper van. Then there’s a post about a calendar. And before that’s it’s about his Mac. [...]

    July 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm