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« on: July 31, 2009, 01:11:18 PM »
Hi All, Just had a look thru the galleries, some awesome looking vans in there, I'll have a better look when I have more time. To the subject at hand though, as I said in my newbie post, I don't have much of an idea re mechanical stuff and was wondering how difficult it would be to put in a 3.0l Turbo diesel engine (toyota or mazda or something) mainly for fuel economy on the big drive. Has anyone tried this? 
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« on: July 30, 2009, 02:13:49 PM »
Bargain! Put some pic's up and let us all know how you found it!
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« on: July 30, 2009, 02:10:19 PM »
The plan at this stage is to use "the camper" for emergency and short stay accomodation. The rest of the time we'll be staying in van park cabins or similar. All it really needs is a decent bed, water storage, a fridge of some description, an awning and a bit of interior lighting. i have a load of camping gear for cooking; stove, BBQ etc. Do they have swivel front seats?
Most of our travelling will be on bitumen or graded dirt roads. If we want to go 'off the beaten tack' we'll look for 4WD day tours or such like. I'll probably be towing a small tinnie for fishing.
The season we leave will determine our direction; winter-north, summer-south and then go wherever the whimsy takes us and get home whenever we've had enough. We'll be installing a GPS & UHF radio, for safety's sake.
And that folks, is pretty much the plan.
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« on: July 30, 2009, 08:23:02 AM »
Hi all. My name's Jim and I live in Sydney's western suburbs. The wife and I are doing the grey nomad thing when we retire (another 10-15yrs unless we win lotto or something) and we've been tossing around different idea's on how we'd do it: Motorhome, 4WD w/- caravan or trailer or camper van. Anyway, we were on our way home from watching our son play in the Australian Indoor Cricket Championships in Brisbane and stopped for the night in a caravan park in Coffs Harbour and we saw a guy in a camper pull up and plug-in. So i said to the wife, why don't we go around in an older style kombi or a van like the mystery bus from Scooby Doo, you know something a bit retro and she liked the idea - surprise, surprise. And so I found this site while looking for Beddy's (Kombi's unless you get a good one are too hard to maintian-see below).
I'm not looking to buy one just yet, not enough spare $$$$. But I was wondering how difficult they are 2 maintain, as I'm not very mechanically minded (I'm talking about a stock standard van with little or no mods). I believe they mostly came out with Holden 186 motors is that right? Is the other running gear, brakes etc compatible with Holdens of the same era?
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