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Topic: Vintage Camping Equipment

GoonerGary

12/6/2014 at 12:46pm
Location: Cambridge UK
Outfit: 1970 VW Campmobile - Vango Force 10

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Besides that auction site, does anyone know where to source vintage camping equipment? Mainly looking for vintage 60s/70s gear.

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12/6/2014 at 1:09pm
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Its going to be carboot sales mainly, the bigger the sale the better, I've often seen old camping stuff. Do you go to France? Bric a brac sales there are often even better for old stuff. I'm guessing you are after old stuff to go with your camper?

DOZY

12/6/2014 at 2:16pm
Location: Middlesex (yes it still exists)
Outfit: Izmir:TT: Holkham:Adventure

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I have a spare boxed 'new' hago orange kitchen stand

I have put it on gumtree / ebay in the past.

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Tynxuk

12/6/2014 at 4:26pm
Location: Sunny Suffolk (West)
Outfit: inflatable dome Palamos6 frame tent

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Car boots are great for getting old gear, if you're located in Cambridge and don't mind a little drive there is Oakington Car boot on a Saturday morning. On Sunday I never found the football club car boot any good, used to be a park and ride car boot but not been there in a while as not as big as Fordham Car boot which is every other Sunday (not this weekend) then in the afternoon (again every other Sunday - not this weekend) if you drive a little further down the A11 there is 'bartboots' on a field just off the All before the 5 ways round about at Barton Mills.

GoonerGary

12/6/2014 at 5:02pm
Location: Cambridge UK
Outfit: 1970 VW Campmobile - Vango Force 10

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Car boot sales are a good idea. I picked up this 1960s orange low picnic table, the box that came with it was hilarious, "available in a range of gay colours" and the photo of a Martini party.

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eel28

12/6/2014 at 5:52pm
Location: Letchworth Garden City
Outfit: Conway Cruiser

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I love vintage/retro camping gear and should really find a better source than eBay! Getting far too expensive!

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13/6/2014 at 7:51pm
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Charity shops.

spinyeel

14/6/2014 at 9:26am
Location: Australia
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Car boot sales,garage sales or Gumtree,if you're quick.

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pnefan

15/6/2014 at 5:35am
Location: Preston
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We have 70,s chairs, table, tilley stove,kitchen stand and cups and plates. All in the garage. Don,t use them anymore but just can,t bear to get rid of them because of the memories of camping before we got married and had children.

Nodscene

24/6/2014 at 6:10pm
Location: Canada
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Do you guys have anything like Craigslist or Kijiji? I found a guy who restores old Coleman stuff and picked up a 1950's lantern, 1960's Coleman Diamond cooler, 2 burner stove and stand all for $100 Can (which is about 55 pounds). All in excellent working condition.

Campernic

24/6/2014 at 6:21pm
Location: Northern Ireland
Outfit: Bell Tent Vango Coleman and Quechua

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I have some of my parents old camping stuff from the 70's. I'll never get rid of it (great memories) but I do still use it. I've got a Tilly stove, a hago kitchen stand in pale blue, and a 1973 lime green frame tent that still gets an outing from time to time (and is far better quality than many new tents!)

Actually to think of it I have three vintage tents, but the other two are a tiny 2 person Freeman tent, and a Lichfield Challenger 5 which still gets used and is in fact my profile pic!

RTS5

25/6/2014 at 11:43am
Location: North Wiltshire
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There is this site Dubenhams that I just found when searching. Also saw an advert for Etsy the other day. Though it is a USA company and not all sellers ship to the UK.

Campernic

25/6/2014 at 4:00pm
Location: Northern Ireland
Outfit: Bell Tent Vango Coleman and Quechua

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Etsy has a huge UK seller network too. I sell my crafty things on it. Etsy is an Ebay for crafters and artists. It started stateside but it's just as popular here too. It's a bit oversaturated with sellers though.

There is a more UK based version called Folksy and it is popular, but doesn't have the same traffic generating power as Etsy.

RTS5

25/6/2014 at 5:03pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Campernic on 25/6/2014
Etsy has a huge UK seller network too. I sell my crafty things on it. Etsy is an Ebay for crafters and artists. It started stateside but it's just as popular here too. It's a bit oversaturated with sellers though.

There is a more UK based version called Folksy and it is popular, but doesn't have the same traffic generating power as Etsy.

I will have to investigate Etsy a bit more then. When I looked the other day all I could find were US and Canadian sellers. Of course they were all selling the stuff I liked the most and didn't ship to the UK

Will have a look at Folksy too.

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