VW T4 Caravelle L8 PL8 M8

[urpert]

Happening tomorrow. I may have as many as five children in tow so updates may be sporadic. It’s started well:

in the mean time here is a teaser pic of the HBOL:

[Wibble]

Chod speed!

[grogee]

Sad face for the broken train. It must be the severe, extreme weather we're experiencing at the moment. 

Hmm, 1990-on, lots of seats? Is it a Nissan of some kind? Serena or Prarie? 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Transporter innit?  wiv seats in the back (rear windows optional)

[wuvvum]

  On 04/04/2025 at 19:46, EyesWeldedShut said:

Transporter innit?  wiv seats in the back (rear windows optional)

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T4 going by the HBOL teaser.

[urpert]

Well that was quick 😂
T4 it is. Potentially one of the last. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 04/04/2025 at 20:42, urpert said:

Well that was quick 😂

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You are my wife ?

[stuboy]

  On 04/04/2025 at 20:07, wuvvum said:

T4 going by the HBOL teaser.

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[urpert]

Main part of train journey at least currently uncancelled. 
Breakfast and an appropriate accessory (though for the truly pedantic an 071 area code is a bit early):

[urpert]

First part of the journey now in the modern:

 

[urpert]

Train. Unfortunately these things have a history of FTP

 

[Dobloseven]

Had a 1993 LWB T4 minibus with no less than 13 seats.2.4 NA 5 cylinder diesel.Nice old thing.

[PicantoJon]

  On 05/04/2025 at 07:46, urpert said:

Train. Unfortunately these things have a history of FTP

 

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'You'll be going nowhere...' 

[urpert]

  On 05/04/2025 at 08:52, PicantoJon said:

'You'll be going nowhere...' 

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Kwalitee Washwood Heath  product, M9

 

[EyesWeldedShut]

Wrong thread - should be in the 'so you are the gaffa' thread ?
Proper job on that repair though - privatisation is patently working?

[urpert]

  On 05/04/2025 at 08:57, EyesWeldedShut said:

Wrong thread - should be in the 'so you are the gaffa' thread ?
Proper job on that repair though - privatisation is patently working?

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Grand Central are an Open Access operator so this is literally the white heat of capitalist innovation in action. 

[CaptainBoom]

Chod speed good sir, with family in tow.  That's proper adventuring!

The Bank training college I used to work at had a fleet of T4 as minibuses.  Acceleration was... glacial but made narrow enough to make short work of the lanes around the area, so you could keep momentum.

If you brought tools with you for your collection, you could offer to fix the train

 

[urpert]

Achieved:

 

[urpert]

First impressions: very clean, very original. Now for a straightforward* 135 miles down the A1 after a Betty’s bun. 

[Tayne]

First registered in Fife, hopefully not too rusty.

[reb]

  On 05/04/2025 at 10:08, Tayne said:

First registered in Fife, hopefully not too rusty.

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Isn't KY Milton Keynes?

Though there are certainly a lot of KY private plates around here.

[Tayne]

I thought KY was Kirkcaldy, I realise now that it would be S something in the current system.

Was KY ever Kirkcaldy?

[alcyonecorporation]

sorry about peterborough

[reb]

  On 05/04/2025 at 10:14, Tayne said:

KY ever Kirkcaldy

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According to Wikipedia it was Bradford before '74 and Sheffield after

[urpert]

  On 05/04/2025 at 10:19, alcyonecorporation said:

sorry about peterborough

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Don’t worry I’m used to it

[urpert]

Paradise in dark grey shiny plastic

 

Might get an original head unit though

[wuvvum]

  On 05/04/2025 at 10:19, alcyonecorporation said:

sorry about peterborough

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It's not your fault.

[urpert]

Made it to Wetherby without incident. 

[EyesWeldedShut]

  On 05/04/2025 at 10:21, reb said:

Bradford

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Nooooooo

[urpert]

And home.