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OUR BETTY.2.....is 26 years old , we had a little Damp in the front but that was soon fixed....we have a few dings and little knocks...we look after her....and just come back from southern-Germany( Munich) towed by our Betty1 a 25 year old Volvo 740gl....

   happy caravanning

                  Werner.

We had a Compass Reflection 490/6 new in 1995, we were going to trade it in 2006 for our new Pageant Provence & my nephew said he'd like it. The dealer came to the house & damp tested it before he'd give us a price for trade in. He couldn't find any damp in it.

My nephew bought it for the same price quoted by the dealer for trade in & he's still using it regularly along with the Isabella awning & everything else we threw in to get them started with their first caravan.

We had that van serviced here on the drive by a mobile man all its life & my nephew uses the same man today so I think it's how you look after the van that counts.

Saying that, I don't see our 2009 Pageant Provence being here in 15 years time, the Compass wasn't perfect but the build quality today isn't what it was.

BB

I can beat you all - my little Fisher Holivan (loving known as Holi) is 41 years old and is fab!!! I bought her last year for £450.
I replaced the foam and made new seat covers and curtains, fitted blinds and had 240v electrics fitted.

She has had some slight damp under the kitchen window in the past but a new seal soon fixed the problem and she is as dry as a bone and very cosy!

OK, she doesn't have all the mod cons of a modern van but I love her!!

The oldest perfectly useble caravan I've personally seen  was made over 100 years ago (I think the very oldest I've seen was made in 1850-ish). Of course that was a  caravan made in the traditional way out of wood and canvas. Maybe there's a lesson in that ? !  

Ok you wouldn' want to tow it behind your Mitsubishi Warrior (or whatever) but it looked beautiful, reasonably comfortable, & would roll along pretty cheaply being towed by 4-legged drive !!!  

ps well done Helen -for the modern day tin equivalent you surely have to be the winner ? Love your mini too btw - they just don't make em like that anymore eh ?