Now this is proving to be the hard part. The club members seem to favour vans over cars, 4X4s, station wagons etc. but there is little obvious consensus on make or size. Helen has a large Mercedes 208D, which is very competently fitted out including that female luxury, the self-managed toilet facility. There's a very impressing VW Transporter, and an even more impressive and very newly kitted out Mercedes Huge (my term - sorry) with inbuilt shower etc. belonging to Niall(?) the Scots guy, who is anxious to make long weekends at the beach pleasant for his non-windsurfing wife.
I like vans too. My first vehicle was a van, a Morris J2, ex-GPO, 403 BXY, in tasteful flaking green with a huge fibreglass roof that let in sufficient filtered light to make it very pleasant inside. My second vehicle was a Morris 1000 van, which came from one friend and was passed onto another. So bring on the van.
WHICH van? Is there a magazine by that name? There probably is - there has to be. Haven't seen it, and I'm not sure it would help. What should the budget be? £500? £5000?? I'm sure Niall has spent £20K... But it must be remembered that all of this is merely a means to an end...
SAILING/SURFING IN WAVES!!!!
More on the van quest to come...
