our vw campervans

I am Spartacus (6-berth)
Welcome to the new boy, 'I am Spartacus'. OK, we know he doesn't benefit from that gorgeous dimple in his chin. Nor does he wear sandals. But he enjoys sand and is a van of integri...

Uma (4-berth)
Uma is a right hand drive 1972 Westfalia. Her name came about because, like in the film, she was resurrected from near death. After failing her MOT in 1996 she was being used as a ...

Battenberg (2-berth)
Fancy a bit of Battenberg? Lovely cake. Lovely van. Battenberg (the van) is a 1962 right hand drive splitscreen from the hot and sunny climes of South Africa. He has a very small b...

Mr Orange (6-berth)
Mr Orange is so named because he is a great big orange van. His orange-ness slaps your eyes like the Tango advert slapped your head. He is also six berth. He is a 1979 right hand d...

Shiny Norman (5-berth)
Shiny Norman joined the fleet in the spring of 2008. At the time he was called Tweetie-pie and was rather embarrased about it. When he arrived his kitchen cupboards were are deligh...

Jackie Brown (4-berth)
Jackie Brown is a 1979 right hand drive Devon conversion and was so named because she was very, very, very 1970’s brown and beige. She served us well but we decided that the ...

Barbarella (4-berth)
The Van With No Name now has a name; welcome to Barbarella. Like her famous cinematic namesake she floats, as though weightless, through the furthest reaches of Devon and Cornwall,...

Barbarossa (2-berth)
Well that’s a mouth full but we needed a name that conjured up the heritage of this king of VW vans. He is a 1965 original English RHD 21 window deluxe Samba. Rescued from a ...

Ordell (4-berth)
Ordell was a proud 1972 right hand drive Deluxe sunroof van with all the chrome bling associated with the 'Deluxe' VW Campervan. We bought him in 2005 after he blew a piston and hi...

Nice Guy Eddie (4-berth)
In this modern frenetic, advertising led world of ours some things don’t need to be pushed, or sold, they don’t need that strap line or a sound bite. What they are, and...

Max Cherry (4-berth)
Welcome to Max Cherry - a van that came to us after a lovers' tiff. I don't know if I should be telling you this - oh to hell with it, you'll read about it on Wikileaks soon enough...

Wolverine (4-berth)
Wolverine is a superhero. He survived in a small cramped garage for fifteen years. He had no food or water and the only daylight he saw was through a grimy oil smeared window. His ...

Purdy (5-berth)
The beautiful new addition to our campervan family, Purdy, has been hanging back in the shadowy recesses of the workshop  for some time now, unsure of her role. She ...