Every now and then a bus takes your eye at a show and that’s exactly what happened with David Mitchell’s crossover bay of Australian origins. Some buses you drool over thanks to their antiquity, others set the heart racing due to their originality and a cherished few draw you like a magnet with a restoration where a recipe of aesthetics and practicalities provide unadulterated pleasure for an owner. David’s bus falls into this last category as the pictures hopefully illustrate. A man with more than a passing interest in classic Mini’s, David and his wife’s decision to buy a camper was all about their younger children (the youngest is five) revelling in the experience while they are still little, creating in the process, memories to last a lifetime. David knows the cost of keeping an old vehicle on the road thanks to his Mini experience and as a result ruled out the iconic split in favour of a bay which should cost less to purchase too.
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