Although Dan has enjoyed great success with DUB Buses of late (search Facebook if you want to find out more), due in no small part to his hard work ethic and out-of-the box thinking, he isn’t one of those people who modify one Van and then immediately think they’re a business.
He managed the bodyshop at Wheel Magic for a few years prior to branching out on his own, and kept a good relationship going with his former employer. So much so, the two companies have now decided to merge together and form a third company, Mounts Bay Campers, and this is the first hire vehicle on its fleet.
With the brief of purpose building a hire Van on the table, the guys wanted to put something together that was pretty much idiot-proof (my words, not Dan’s), but didn’t want to bang out something that looked about as interesting as a local council planning department employee.
Colour chart
So the first thing Dan looked at was the colour. Although a lot of people are two toning Vans again these days, it’s often some kind of generic colour that gets blown on the lower half.
This clearly wasn’t good enough for Dan. Not only did he search old Volkswagen colour chips to come up with the L511 Birch Green hue (or Birkengrün if you’re an inhabitant of the Fatherland), but he also took all the doors off and did the job properly, painting the door shuts and inside surfaces to match.
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Cinema paradiso
VisionTech Automotive is well known for its high-end Camper conversions, but a mobile cinema is a new one from the Essex boys
High Impact
When the wonderfully named Kevin Snuggs wanted a Van to double up as a work promo vehicle and family Camper, only a T5 would do
Altitude adjustment
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The big 3-0-0
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3-day itch
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Making Memories
Naming your Camper conversion business after a part of the brain might not sound very sexy, but when it’s the part that deals with motivation and memory, it starts to make more sense
Pete's meat
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Letting off steam
When the missus announced she was heading for a university visit with our eldest, Oscar and I decided to put the two-berth T5 through its paces in north Norfolk
System PORSCHE
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