Alas poor Munkymobile

[andygates]

A dashboard without a radio looks like a face that's just lost a tooth. 

I'm getting itchy from being so de-powered since the van went permanently off-road at its MOT last week.  I can't dash off to rescue friends, run a bunch of bikes somewhere, or go to the beach for a swim or a surf or a paddle, or do anything ad hoc.  It's not the doing as much as the capacity to be doing that is vexing me: phantom driver ache.

Bus timetables appear to be lies, which doesn't help even if the main thing I'm missing is a chunk of my usefulness.  Part of me wants to get a heavy bike trailer.

Bah.  Ebay ho!  There must and shall be a new Munkymobile.  Possibly with Misery Machine graphics. 

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[sunny-brook.livejournal.com]

A friend of mine runs a Land Rover 101 Forward Control, converted from military ambulance spec to overland expedition-style camper. There's a 3.9EFi in it now though, so it's not so hot on fuel efficiency.

Failing that, Andy, what about Brompton + CityCarClub?

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Your friend wins at camper. That's been my "squee!" spec camper since I started looking.

(Anecdotage: Back in the day, I was looking for a van and my ex-RAF brother said "ex-RAF ambulances, cheap" -- I jumped, but alas, they were regular Bedford civilian ambulances that had served on base. Still bought one, and it was a terrifying shed.)

I looked into car clubs and there isn't one for my town. It's in the pipeline, with pressure from the local hippies to which I've added my name.