BEIGE SHERPA scampervan and old Honda motorbike.

[chodweaver]

Sir! Our position is being overrun by Giant Mecha! It's Rustertron, Headgaskator, and NicebitofpicnicinalaybynextotheA476zilla!

 

Damn your eyes, Sir! Your superior witticisms and comic inventiveness have me undone!

 

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[Felly Magic]

The only way this MG camper could get any more winning is if Barbara Cavcraft the little dog/floormop was sat inside it, looking out of the window

[Guest Breadvan72]

I can sort of see Skiz on one of these, but he might need a stick on beard and fake tats.

 

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201704124339179?make=honda&model=vt125-shadow&r=4

 

 

 

 

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/honda/vt125-shadow/1999/

 

 

 

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Note to self -

 

 

[Skizzer]

I can sort of see Skiz on one of these, but he might need a stick on beard and fake tats.

 

 

http://www.autotrader.co.uk/classified/advert/201704124339179?make=honda&model=vt125-shadow&r=4

 

 

honda.jpg

 

 

http://www.motorcyclenews.com/bike-reviews/honda/vt125-shadow/1999/

 

Er, no. Just no.

[barefoot]

Nice Fellows stove.

To use the grill, turn the rack upside down, turn the grill to max for a couple of minutes and then turn it down to simmer before using it.

Any other method will guarantee burnt black stripes in the middle and raw at the edges.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Noms!

[Guest Breadvan72]

Sherpa can take it!   Currently the van has an old mahogany table in the back.   I will schlep the table upstairs in the gaff tomorrow, if I CBA.  

[Noel Tidybeard]

I have now owned, I think, a total of five vehicles with Marina inner door handles, but not one Marina.  

 

 

PENANT MODE=ON

 

they arent marauder door handles they are landcrab door handles

 

PEDANT MODE=OFF

 

but eveventy twelvety point anyhoo

[Guest Breadvan72]

Query BATTERY DRAIN OF OH NOES.

 

Van seems to go flat overnight.  Nothing obviously left on.  Easy to jump.  Will monitor.

[Noel Tidybeard]

maybe its the beige aura powered by princeofdarkness

[somewhatfoolish]

Charge the battery overnight and leave it for a day or two; if it still pancakes while not attached to the Sherpa of Beigeness then it's fucked.

[Guest Breadvan72]

Thanks, I will try that. 

[richardthestag]

broken alternator rectifier?!? can cause a battery drain over night.

 

If battery survives a night in solitary, reconnect it to the beige thunderer and pop the connector off the back of the alternator.

 

If it still dies you will need to check for a spark when brushing the earth lead across the neg terminal, then remove each of the 3 or 4 fuses to isolate which circuit has the drain. 

 

with so few fuses (probably) you will find that it is a white (ignition controlled - unfused) or brown (battery controlled - unfused)  circuit that has the drain.

 

Despairing at the complexity of the wiring diagram you will open the glove box to retrieve a Werther's and find the map light glowing merrily away. Set phone on video record, install in glovebox and close door, review footage to check the ickle light goes out.

 

Smart money will be on a dead cell in the battery though

[Guest Breadvan72]

I would prefer to climb inside the fridge and close the door, but the above plan might be betterer.

[spartacus]

Just caught up with this thread. RESULT on the Sherpa! Autosleepers are, as has been said already, really good quality conversions. If the need is anything like three one in a Talbot Express version then practice makes perfect, also helpful if ladies and children keep out of the way!

Does it have a fridge?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Fridge it does have (a GAS fridge, like my mum had at home in the sixties), and cooker too, but no sink.  I have bought a posh Fiamma do poos in a box box, and that will go in a tiny tent outside. 

 

PS:  I am posting this from inside the fridge.  See above for why.  I could maybe do with a hand.  

[spartacus]

Probably no light in the fridge. Although it probably has an ignitor for the gas, which will continually try to light the fridge if the gas runs out, unless you turn it off.

Your comment about being inside the fridge brings to mind those safety ads from the '70s, about not climbing inside fridges! Be careful!

[Bren]

BV I have an exclusive picture of your sherpa being converted into a camper -

[anonymous user]

PS: I am posting this from inside the fridge.

Is your tiny hand frozen?

[spartacus]

This one...

 

[Guest Breadvan72]

Is your tiny hand frozen?

Dang. Can't decide whether to try Puccini gag or Trump gag. Dang.

[Guest Hooli]

No Beedle gag?

[Guest Breadvan72]

Flat again overnight.   Will do checks suggested above.  I have just noticed what appears to be a solar panel battery charger in the van.    Hooked it up.  Sun is having day off in France.

 

Have LOADSA photies, including many of WOB and some of RUST, but also of WOOD, just like you pervs will get when you see the pics, you sad spaff -junkies.  May post later if CBA.

[Guest Breadvan72]

A stylish ride.  (Also an old Honda)

 

 

 

 

[richardthestag]

^^ they need to be uncovered !

 

All that shimmering bodywork covered up etc etc 

 

 

you is sooo in trubel

[Guest Breadvan72]

Re: fancy rides.  I mistakenly thought that I'd found a (slightly) younger and better (European) model, but that one, although fast and stylish, was also quite unreliable and dangerous, and turned out not to be an upgrade after all. I fell off rather spectacularly, and was quite badly hurt for a while, and my older model was cruelly damaged also. I have now been to the hospital and the repair shop, and returned to the slightly older but more reliable, actually faster, better handling, less expensive and ultimately safer classic model. My friends all tell me that I dodged a bullet. 

Voltaire:- "Better is the enemy of good".

[taxi paul]

Younger models are great. Better bodywork,firmer seating and clearer more upright headlights. The downside is that they tend to be a bit wanting and need more looking after and a full valet more often. I prefer my nice reliable present model. Like me easy to maintain and service with no expensive parts. Also when it does go wrong it's just something simple that is easily resolved and it's up and running again.

[somewhatfoolish]

This has deteriorated into a Swiss Toni sketch; MOAR BEIGE!

[Felly Magic]

Mme Fourgonette du Pain might slap you if she finds out what you typed LOL