It's only going to be a short one, this, with two further entries. One has already been seen under the "chod" tag, the other hasn't. Neither will be USDM or JDM models, which will probably have to be in Part Four... if there ever is a Part Four.

Parts One and Two are... in those links.

( A brief stop by the unit )

I figured I should get round to writing the follow-up to Dr. Jim's Garage, Part One at some stage, in which I add a few "non-exotic" cars to the theoretical hoard I'd like to preserve. What has sparked me to do so, though, is one of those "exotics" of the past which are haram under the rules: Big Car has made a video about the Jensen Interceptor. ( Read more... )

Despite the potential for it all to be thrown down the plughole at some stage in the future, ThemTube is still a fine repository of automotive videos filmed by people with possibly uninteresting cars that would otherwise be forgotten. There are episodes and clips of Old Top Gear, and there's the likes of HubNutSomething I've been meaning to do for ( Read more... )

I've mentioned the Autoshite forums before a few times - I'm not registered as a member, it's somewhere I occasionally lurk after I've been on ThemTube watching some old motoring programmes, wondering when was the last time I saw a base-model MkII Vauxhall Cavalier on the road (like the one my grandad had as his last car from 1984 to 1991). I'm not ( Read more... )

All right, so it's not a camper, it's a panel van that's sometimes had its owner shove an airbed in the load space. But it is a real, restored Fiat 900T actually being driven by Ian "HubNut" Seabrook, whose channel I watched a fair bit of last year as he attempted to get a Thundersley Invacar back on the road alongside his venerable old 2CV, as ( Read more... )

Achtung! I've not posted about camper vans in a while. Two years, actually. Think of it as something I've got on the backburner for when I'm back on form with life... which will be several years yet ( Read more... )

WARNING! This post contains car geekery. I mean, if you weren't all prepared for such things when I can make a very long post about the font used on UK numberplates and a lot of posts about camper vans and vans that are suitable for being turned into campers, then there really is no hope ( Read more... )

Communism is responsible for countless horrors, but the one I want to highlight today is what happens when it mixes with the motor industry. The root of the problem is that the two systems are incompatible. Private car ownership allows The People™ to go wherever they like, and when, of their own free will, which communist regimes utterly detest; ( Read more... )

Here I am, sitting up at gone two in the morning looking at camper vans again, preparing for a future that will be lived entirely solo, where at least I can go wandering in the way I like.

It also made me wonder if I could find the answer to one of the previous camper questions I had from the original post. The Fiat 650/800/900T/E may have been ( Read more... )

Look at your computer. How much did you pay for it? Is it a top-end model, capable of blitzing anything thrown at it, or is it a bare basics job capable of email, office-type programs, the internet and bugger all else (including being confused by bloated Flash applications ( Read more... )