Rolling Homes is a family business, based in Shropshire and their aim is that every campervan they produce is bespoke and unique. They’ll build a traditional layout, or they’ll do something totally different if that’s what the customer orders. So, when Mark Cooper, Rolling Homes’ founder, decided to build their ultimate luxury campervan with everything on it as a PR and show van for their anniversary year, he gave himself free rein to quite literally include everything that he likes!
He wanted to build something totally decadent, not necessarily focussing on keeping it practical.
The primary aim was going for the WOW factor. With forty years of cabinet building and design experience behind him, the challenge was creating something which was completely bespoke, a one-off build that will never be replicated. The planning took a long time. The finished van is based on the very familiar side kitchen layout. But that’s pretty much all that is standard on this bus!
The list of ‘what’s on it’ is a long one—almost a full page of A4. When it was first built, Mark said he stopped counting the build cost when they reached £100,000, but over last summer he did all the sums and they add up to almost £120,000 for the fixtures and fittings alone, some of which had to be imported specifically for this build—and that’s not including the cost of actually building it, which took months of painstaking work. Or the months of planning beforehand, come to that.
この記事は VW Bus T4&5+ の Issue 95 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です ? サインイン
この記事は VW Bus T4&5+ の Issue 95 版に掲載されています。
7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
すでに購読者です? サインイン
The Evolution of Van
To mark 100 issues of VWBus, David takes a look back at how updating the humble ‘Box on Wheels’ has gone from concept to reality
Wild Times
Perhaps a sign of the wild times we’re in and a telling sign of how fast we’re adapting to the ‘new normal’. I decide to take a U-turn and zoom out on how things looked as that ‘new normal’ was taking hold, along with how that’s effecting our little sector
Story's Story
With The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden under our belts and barely two weeks on the road, we were heading to the ultimate van life destination; Norway…
Karmann-Go
When you own ‘The fastest motorhome in the world’,getting to the campsite on time shouldn’t be a problem
Gran Tourettesmo
This is a very cool and interesting project, but the question is,is this the ultimate eBay build?
CBBA
If there was such a thing as Cool Bus Builders Anonymous, then each meet in Leicestershire would start with the words. “Hello, my name’s Andy Stretton and I can’t stop building seriously cool buses.”
Honey I Shrunk My Bus
When Grant Gwyn walked into a VW dealership to buy a Viper green Caddy, little did he know his future was about to be very orange...
Milk Float Influence
Nicknamed Ernie, we discover this custom-created T5 pickup won’t be doing the early morning milk round any time soon
Impossible Solved
A while back we brought you a basic sketch of a proposed project, it was both wild and eminently practical. Well it’s finished now and already in service as a daily driver for a very special lad
An Alpine Summer
In the concluding instalment we pick up Richard and Jackie Pickles’ story of their eight-country Alpine summer adventure on the shore of Lake Como in Italy
