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Quote: Originally posted by trigaway on 27/7/2009

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Hi anyone out there got one of these, they seem pretty rare? We used to have an Esterel a few years ago, there are plenty of those about. Ours is about 1990 or so we were told, the person we brought it off knew nothing much about it! It is the Marque model, have searched the net and not come up with much at all.
Its turned out to be a bit of a project :( what we were told was minor damage in one corner has turned out to be anything but! It was a load of rot all along the one folding panel, very bad! Thank goodness my good ol Dad is putting it right or we would be right in it!!! Dreaded Ebay again Im afraid!!!

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I have just aquired a Fleurette Marque, really nice little van and sooooo easy tow, how are you getting on with yours?

Yvonne.

I would like to join an owners club, you really dont see a lot of the older Fleurette's about, I've seen a few of the newer ones on camps, mine is a 12ft long van plus the A frame, its a 3 berth and is remarkably comfortable despite its tiny size, luckily there was an awning with it as the brand new ones that fit pop tops are an amazing £900 to buy! cant exactly fathom that one as its a small awning compared to most on the average size vans but they cost so much more, absolutely nuts, ours also had some damage in one corner which had let in damp but had it done now and its watertight, I just love towing it as there is very little movement from it on the back of the car as opposed to the swift challenger which I found to be a bit more difficult to tow, we also had to buy the corner steadies for the fleurette and the OH had to modify some we got from a caravan breakers, we also just replaced two windows that were cracked, they also come from the breakers, I thought the size would be hard to get but apparently their pretty much a standard size albeit small, well worth phoning breakers to find parts for it as new parts seem pretty much impossible to find.

Yvonne. 

Awww ethelbert is looking really good! we really should form an owners club!

Yvonne.