Let the Journey begin...

“The camper still wears its original silver paintwork. Bizarrely we actually own three VW’s all in exactly the same colour... By accident not by design!”

- DAVE RICHARDS

When John Whitmarsh bought his bus, he thought that there was just too much silver on it. “That’s why I added a selection of decals to try and get rid of the silver and ground it better. It’s still powered by its original 1896cc engine which has covered a relatively low 120k, well-serviced miles. It has clearly been looked after for all its life and not hammered. There is only one tiny scratch on the outside and the interior is spotless. It remains mechanically stock apart from a bit of gentle suspension lowering”. Everything else that has been done to the bus is essentially superficial so that it can be returned to standard if required. Volkswagen didn’t spend vast sums on research & development just for the sake of it. They did produce a competent vehicle straight out of the box!

“I don’t know much about the history of the T5, I bought it partially converted from a chap who was planning to tour Europe extensively but sadly life got in the way and he never got around to it. He bought this particulat example because it has air-con which I understand is quite rare. It came from Newark where it was used as a daily. It has all the previous MOT certificates and a big old bundle of receipts. It was pretty much spotless and the majority of the conversion work had already been done, leaving me to simply complete things and to impose my own personal style on it.