Hi koala400au
Great to see you caught up with the Buick and home built van at the Settlers Museum in Dunedin, it's a great bit of gear. Anyone with an interest in vans should see this one if you are over there. We holidayed there for a month a few years back and I was just getting more of an interest in vans and photographed a couple that took my eye.
The first was a nice little fibreglass van at the markets in Dunedin that had been converted to a food stall.
At Richmond a van converted into a motor home caught my eye but couldn’t help but think that first step would be a bother in the dark of night.
I wonder where you do carry the steps
After we left Milford Sound it snowed the next day, an interesting experience I’d not had before, travelling in snow. We stayed overnight at Wanaka and the next morning headed off to the west coast but ducked in to have a look at Lake Hawea.
This van was on a block between a couple of houses and I dare say is used as someone’s ‘bach’. It looked a little unloved and the only other thing on the block was the loo, just visible in the right of the picture. I just thought it was such a ‘postcard’ with the lake and the snow on the mountain and the old van. I’m not a fusherman but I could picture myself set up there looking out over the lake on a warm evening, couple of snags on the barbie and a few coldies! As it turned out though, it was that bloody cold I didn’t even get out of the car to take the photo, just cranked up the telephoto and stayed warm:!:
I don’t remember seeing too many vans, even though we mainly stayed in Top 10 Holiday Parks, plenty of mobile homes though. The gypsy type motor homes conversions from old trucks and buses took my fancy; especially the Bedford ones and I took a few photos which may be of interest for a separate post.
I do notice that the NZers seem to like symmetry in their van shapes looking at these three.
Cheers
George
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