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I have caravanned since I was 10 days old in July 1970!

With my parents I caravanned in:

2 Sprite 400's a 67 and a 70, a 70 Cavalier 1200T, a 78 Sprite Super Major, an 81 Sprite Super Alpine, an 89 Adria Forma 580 and a 90 Lunar Sunbeam ....

With my Mrs since we married in 94:

90 Sprite Musketeer S, a 95 Bailey Beachcomber 440/4 Club, a 2005 Abbey 418 GTS Vougue, a 2006 Swift Chalenger 470 and now a 2007 Abbey 416 GTS.

Hopefully have this one for a while.

Elddis tornado with Glass windows and GAS lamps..

.Tent for many years...then

Bailey clifton 4 berth heavy with awkward  layout.....Now

ABI marauder 450ct.   light roomy and much travelled.

Bought a secondhand Thompson Glennevis  4/5 berth in 1979 sold it in 1984. Moved to Tintagel in 1986 owned a B & B retired and returned to caravanning in 2006 with a 1993 Abbey Piper 2 berth.  A neat little van for the two of us.

Fairholme (with gas lights) as wel as electric curlew

new ABI Monza

Avondale sandmartin

Buccaneer

Eccles  Elite Emerald (twin axle)

Holidays abroad for about 10 years then back to caravanning with

Steling Elite Treker (twin axle)

Now new Lunar Quasar fixed bed

Sue

I was brought up in tents with the folks and we also had a caravan. Great days and that planted the seed with me.

We had a tent for starters then we moved up to a 1973 VW Camper in our mid twenties. Then as we got a little older we moved on to a 1992 Swift Corniche 15 2E which had been reelly well looked after and we loved it. We now have a 2004 Abbey Safari 525 which we love it has everything for me the wife and our labrador Paddy.

First trip of the year this coming weekend, cant wait!

Dave,She and Paddy

I caravanned in the early 80's with my parents in a Sprite Alpine, and have many many fond memories of that 'van.

Me & OH, two kids & baby started again in 2000 with a Conway Rio trailer tent, but during one particularly freezing wet weekend at Robin Hoods Bay decided we were getting a caravan. My parents happened to be getting another one so we fell lucky and bought their 1981 Compass Citizen for £50 which we loved. Then the year before last we had a yearning for more space and went and bought a 2002 Conway Vision, a great trailer tent, but during the first holiday in it i realised we'd made a mistake, then in the October at Mablethorpe we had awful gales which frightened the life out of me and we decided it was back to a caravan for us. We now have a 1985 Avondale Perle Argos, but the layout is not ideal, and now we take my Mum i'd like a proper bathroom, so we're on the lookout again!

First van TEC 515

Hobby (can't remember what)

Hobby 520 TQM

Abbey freestyle

Lunar Zenith 5

Dutch & German vans till left the forces!!

Started camping when we lived in Germany, gave it up in 1981.

First van Monza 1200d gas lamps, single glazed, put in a fridge myself and fitted twin electrics, battery charger etc.Used an extension lead and fan heater when cold!

Then Adria 15' can't remember the model but had double glazing mains etc-luxury, sold for virtually what it cost!

Abbey  Lancaster, then saw the GTS at Salop Caravans.

Abbey GTS 415, all mod cons ex demo, owned for 9 years lovely van.

Swift Classic Coronette 2 berth 15'

Bailey Pageant Champagne, owned 2 years, saw present van-fatal!

 Bailey Pageant Vendee, as we loved the fixed bed. Owned 3 years now.

Next? Not sure- maybe a Senator or Swift but fixed bed 18'. No rush to sell yet!

reading all your list of vans makes ours small 2 vans in 6 yrs.

Margaret