You don't have to wait till a babysitter turns up to have a life.
So during a good few years of traveling as far south as capetown and as far east as oz and many many places in between from vietnam to India and Nepal Louise and I met fell in love and reached the age as most do that its about time we settled down.
After we found the house that became our home somehow we decided kids would be our next step and so we began to try for a family of our own. Now as we were trying (not literally) me being me thought hang on a moment my car only has the two seats and as im a plasterer putting a rugrat in a builders van may be far from ideal. With this ticking over in my mind for a few days i was on the lookout for a 'family car' and with louise not with child yet after 6 months despite some of my best moves i figured i had best buy something soon as its sure to happen any month now.
My search ended when on my way home from work one afternoon i spotted a VW T25 CARAVELLE for sale and though not the most modern form of transport it had a retro feel i liked plus it was only a grand. Hands were shook money was exchanged and i drove the 18 year old banger home and parked it up on the drive. I was put onto a club forum by a friend of mine www.club80-90.co.uk were i was made most welcome by a great bunch of people who own these VW T25s and became the infamous JED THE SPREAD. After reading through the forum and posting the usual novice questions i got taken by the idea of putting a poptop roof on the van so i could sleep two people up top. So i put a thread on the wanted section and 24 hours later id bought picked up and fitted a poptop roof. My biggest surprise was while fitting the roof louise to my annoyance had called me in the house to tell me something, Grrrrrr i thought as i walked in with the huff. 'Jarrod',(my name for those who dont know),look. Louise was waving the wand in front of me with the blue line of pregnant clear to see. So tiers were shed tea was drunk and that was the start of something beautiful.
After we found the house that became our home somehow we decided kids would be our next step and so we began to try for a family of our own. Now as we were trying (not literally) me being me thought hang on a moment my car only has the two seats and as im a plasterer putting a rugrat in a builders van may be far from ideal. With this ticking over in my mind for a few days i was on the lookout for a 'family car' and with louise not with child yet after 6 months despite some of my best moves i figured i had best buy something soon as its sure to happen any month now.
My search ended when on my way home from work one afternoon i spotted a VW T25 CARAVELLE for sale and though not the most modern form of transport it had a retro feel i liked plus it was only a grand. Hands were shook money was exchanged and i drove the 18 year old banger home and parked it up on the drive. I was put onto a club forum by a friend of mine www.club80-90.co.uk were i was made most welcome by a great bunch of people who own these VW T25s and became the infamous JED THE SPREAD. After reading through the forum and posting the usual novice questions i got taken by the idea of putting a poptop roof on the van so i could sleep two people up top. So i put a thread on the wanted section and 24 hours later id bought picked up and fitted a poptop roof. My biggest surprise was while fitting the roof louise to my annoyance had called me in the house to tell me something, Grrrrrr i thought as i walked in with the huff. 'Jarrod',(my name for those who dont know),look. Louise was waving the wand in front of me with the blue line of pregnant clear to see. So tiers were shed tea was drunk and that was the start of something beautiful.
Our Westfalia Syncro 4x4 Camper 1.9td
This is our camper. Bought from a car auction for £1600 we thought it was the bargin of the century. £4000 later and after a new engine conversion from www.syncro-nutz.com and a rebuilt gearbox from Aiden Talbot gear box's (01925 495351) along with a soon to be fitted VC. A new turbo and a list of other parts were supplied by www.brickwerks.co.uk . All in all we now have a nice van with many new major parts that will hopefully see us through the next few years gtting us to places most campervans would be afraid to venture. The link below is a log of what was involved getting this van ship shape,
The Syncro Doka 4x4 2.1dj
Used every day for work and for thrashing round the countyside our doka doubles up as a summer camping unit to. It was imported from Sweden were iI believe it was used for forestry work.
Our first camper
The Campervan is a converted 2.1 T25 Caravelle. It now is in campervan heaven as it was chopped up and sold for spares as it was worth more in bits than in one peace.
