Your first van memory thingy!

Well when I bought my first van it was 15 years old in 1988,
I remember it well ,
a 73 Westy continental
As I drove it home Aerosmith Dude looks like a lady was on the Radio,
I was thinking I’m the happiest person alive
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When you got your s ?

 

Well come on then!

 

Well go an get um then!

 

Many memories of our first van, we are only on the second one now. Driving down the Atlantic Coast road in Cornwall with Alanis Morissette on radio and camping at Porth beach near Newquay. The family trip to Brittany, 6 of us plus trailer, and camping at Carnac, driving through a mega thunderstorm and seeing lightning strike into the field at the side of the road. The tears when the van was sold and seeing it being driven away.

 

around 1966 , my mates dad had a vw works van , every drop of snow that fell he would collect all the kids from the corner, load the van with sledge and off to the park with us, this went on for many a years , happy memories of the van and the fun in the park , still think of it every time it snows and want to go sledging , Bought my own van a few years back , still reminds me of my mates dad and the snow falls

 

Christchurch Classic car show , purely by accident as we got waved in by a steward
Free parking all day


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June 1964 aged 5 travelling in a splittie kombi from our home in the Rift Valley in Kenya to Nairobi to catch a 707 to Heathrow, via Rome, and start a new life in the UK. The noise of the van, smell of the murram dust, the excitement of the adventure are all etched indelibly in my memory. Got the chance of buying a van last year to pick up the sense of adventure again.

 

Bought it 6 years ago from a man in Cambridge.
Drove it to Staffordshire then 1 week later drove it to Italy. Took me 3days, it was my introduction to the bus.
Really nice way to gain confidence in driving it and knowing it will get where it's going alright.

 

Bought mi first van , a fully kitted out '68 Devon tintop in decent nick for 400 quid in '89 . I wasn't particularly looking for a VW but it just appeared when I asked around a few mates. Girl I was with ran up some curtains and we set off for a week up t'dales and marvelled at the novelty of not having to pitch a tent - I was sold

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My first memory was ... getting to the first uphill roundabout and on a slope I couldn't find first gear ... nightmare

 

Yep I know the more frantic you get the more you find that spongy wall
as if there are no gear positions at all!

 

Bought from a compulsive fibber in Bristol 15 years ago. eBay photo doesn't do justice to heaving rot on underside or suicidal engine.

Managed 40 miles on the M4 before the engine blew up. Arrived home on back of AA truck. Best to get these things out of the way.

 

Funny I always imagine that you have a perfect bus. I never considered that it didn’t start out like that.

 

My first proper memory is the day after buying it. It was my dad's 75th birthday and we were going for a family Sunday pub lunch so I'd promised him and my mum, who was getting quite ill by this point, that I'd pick them up and transport them. I'll never forget the grin on both their faces as we chugged along to the pub, they were nearly as excited by our purchase as I was

 

Just enough petrol in it to start it at the vendors house. First time ever driving a T2 or in one for that matter . Straight onto a steep hill down to an A road.. nooooooo brakes.... handbrake hard out, foot stand on brakes.. sort of stopped ok.

Yes we were the eBay idiots. Saw the buses on Lost, wanted one, bought one. Didnt expect to win it but bid the reserve price. £6250.


A clicky starter motor at the first fuel stop but it eventually started.
Crashes from the back end turned out to be the cab bunk bed frames smashing around under the back seat.
Then repeated stops to fiddle with the gear lever as the gearbox was not in a good way (it lost first/ third gear completely a year later on a run to the chippie the day after a Cornwall trip)
Always driving only on A roads, from Tonbridge Wells to Southampton, it made it 120 miles in one piece if you didnt mind seeing the road through the floor..

 

The first time I though a I would like one,was in 1988,when I always used to walk past a orange bay window pick up,on the way to work.
The first time I drove one,was in the very early 90’s,back from Golddiggers,Evolution,rave night. My mate was too forked on mushrooms,and I wasn’t quite so bad,so It was decided that I should drive. I loved it.I thought I was flying a light aircraft!
Roll on a year or so,and the apprentice at work rolled up in a twin slider 1700,lowered tin top.After about a year,he decided to get a splitty,so I bought it off of him for 2 grand.
Blew it up,rebuilt it,some one crashed into me,rebuilt it,kept it for 9 years,sold it,bought the one I got now 6 weeks after. owned em for almost 30 years now...