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31/10/2013 at 12:41am
Location: Argyll Scotland
Outfit: 1997 Bailey Ranger 470 4
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Yes Tich, we had to sell it as it was getting too much for us to handle.
One heart attack and two replacement knees and putting it up and dismantling it was becoming a 4 hour job. Okay when you are arriving on a site, but an absolute sod when you were leaving to then do a 5 hour drive to a new site to start erecting it again.
So we have returned to caravans again.
I have the facility to store a caravan under cover, so it is no big deal for me to work on an old one over the winter to get it tickity boo for next summer.
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06/11/2013 at 9:43am
Location: Yorkshire
Outfit: None Entered
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I've just noticed there's one for sale in the classifieds, on here. Might be worth a look, Mucker?
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(I'm not the seller, by the way!)
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06/11/2013 at 11:20am
Location: Derby.
Outfit: T6 Hi-Top & Karsten
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Thanks for link, Lidds.
It looks mint from the pics, but in all honesty, Muckerette has it in her head that these pop-up roof stylees are "too modern", and her heart was made to flutter by one of the older, completely fold-able ones.... which leads me to....
Great pics, Tich.
Now that is the sort of thing she has her eye on! 
If Muckerette hasn't come to her senses by next spring, don't be surprised to see a "FAO TICH" thread appear, because we may well want to intrude upon your personal space, and take a good look! I see you are only an hour or so away! 
Cheeky, I know, but shy and retiring is no way forward, in my book! LOL!
Thanks again, all. Keep up the good work!
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13/11/2013 at 9:20pm
Location: Near kettering Northamptonshire.
Outfit: 1978 Rapido Confort - Vauxhall Astra
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You'd be more than welcome to have a look at mine plus as I'd need a hand to unfold it you would see what you would be letting yourself in for lol.
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03/10/2020 at 9:06pm
Location: Derby.
Outfit: T6 Hi-Top & Karsten
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Wow! A month short of 7 years... That's what you call bumping an old thread! 
Nice one, Tich. 
She still loves the look of them, but I think she decided she just wasn't brave enough to trust them!
That may sound a tad disrespectful, but when you know next to nothing about them, or have next to no experience of them, there is no getting away from the fact that they do appear flimsy.
I appreciate they really cannot be that bad, when folk like you are still holidaying in a '78 vintage, so that disrespect most certainly isn't my intention!
A year after posting about these, we upgraded our tent to a top of the range model, and in fairness we are still enjoying that to the max, 6 years later. We haven't given much (serious) thought to veering away from canvas... to modern or classic alternatives.
For now at least, I think we'll stick to what we know and love, and stick to casting admiring... and envious... glances at set-up's like yours, whilst leaving those much braver than us to enjoy them.
Wonderful pics, and a truly awe-inspiring video. It truly is a beauty, but I think it's fair to say it takes a certain amount of dedication to keep something so old, in such fine fettle! I take my hat off to you, Tich. 
Thanks for putting a lovely big smile on both of our faces, and I hope you continue to have many more years of fun with that very special classic of yours.
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2025: 12 nights and counting...
2024: 43 nights
2023: 47 nights
2022: 40 nights
2021: 30 nights
2020: 24 nights
2019: 50 nights
2018: 30 nights
2017: 34 nights
2016: 32 nights
2015: 38 nights
2014: 34 nights
2013: 36 nights
From July 2012: 23 nights
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