Our Touring Past

Linda and I have been away for a few days on a bit of a round trip, we did about 1500km and came home with this today..
Its a 1950 Gypsy 10 ( 10 ' long ) The outside needs stripping back and repainting and the inside is in fairly good condition altho it did have a good layer of Gilgandra dust every where inside.
The van was last registered in 1980 and its a bit hard to read but it looks as tho the rego No was AN 6208 and the Tare weight was 560. It even came with a full annex in very good condition.

Top little gypsy Richard, bitta work to do outside (probably due to it's age ) inside looks a lesser job for sure
Top little restorer - Thats two great annexe's you've picked up recently
kingy

Hi, Im a new member, I joined because Ive acquired, A Gypsy 10 also.
Mine looks to be in a similar condition to yours, Im going to restore mine, and tow it with my 1937 chevy roadster,
my gypsy was out in a paddock in Gulgong NSW before I got it.

How did you find out the age of your gypsy?

here are some pics of my gypsy 10, just after I got it, before I cleaned up.

Hi Gypsyrose.
Welcome to the ourtouringpast.com website.
That is a very nice Gypsy you have there, and the van and layout are nearly identical to mine.
I did notice that the little CTIA badge you have has 2843 stamped on it where mine has 2619 stamped on it, and the Gypsy Caravan Company badge is also a little different to mine with the phone numbers on mine starting with XA and XB, maybe this is a bit of a clue to the age of the vans.
I know of only a couple of other Gypsys and one is nearly falling apart so they are a rare little van.
Ill add your images to the Library section if that is OK.

Cheers.
Richard.

My van is going to take a bit of work to restore, but Im looking forward doing it.
Yes, Id be happy for you to use any of my pics anywhere within this web site.

Hi Gypsyrose.
Just as a matter of interest I have added a photo of the CTIA badge and a photo of the coupling on my Gypsy, which looks to be an older style coupling with an older style jockey wheel. Does your van have a serial no stamped on the side below the coupling ? Mine is stamped as 766.
Cheers.
Richard.

I just went and had a look, mine has no numbers on it, the jockey wheel is welded on, the jockey wheel looks like a later add on, not original .