Collected my camper but what is it?

[kevtherev]

Looks like a homebrew from an autosleeper donor interior.

Thankfully Autosleeper never made interiors like that....
It smacks of Holdsworth to me with a Autohomes pop top.

There is £3000-£4000 of welding there for restoration... not worth restoring unless it's a keeper.
Roadworthy work would be cheaper... but the van would be embarrassing to drive about for me.

Maybe you could do both? in moderation.
I wouldn't give up until you're told it's a financial wreck to you.

[jamesandtheopenroad]

D'oh

[curlie467]

Looks like a homebrew from an autosleeper donor interior.

Thankfully Autosleeper never made interiors like that....
It smacks of Holdsworth to me with a westfalia pop top.

There is £3000-£4000 of welding there for restoration... not worth restoring unless it's a keeper.
Roadworthy work would be cheaper... but the van would be embarrassing to drive about for me.

Maybe you could do both? in moderation.
I wouldn't give up until you're told it's a financial wreck to you.

Is it a westfalia top though? Looks like an autohomes top but with westy stickers.

Welding doesn't worry me, neither does interior work, paint on the other hand

[kevtherev]

Sorry my mistake you're correct. it might even be an autohomes interior

[kevtherev]

heres the Holdworth sink... quite similar



looks like the fridge was moved for whatever reason...I like daffy's

[LittleMissSunshine]

Shesh that makes my van look solid as a to rock ! Hope you have a deep wallet!

[curlie467]

Identical, down to the covers and the way they are held up!

I am pondering over my best solution hence the post on here. It would be cool for us as a family to have as a day bus, going to the beach etc It isnt financially viable to restore it or even rebuild it as a true camper.

However, maybe the right thing to do would be to break it up and help keep loads of other vans going rather than saving this rather forlorn example!

[lloydy]

Break it and buy another, way to far gone for a rescue. If it was your late fathers long lost camper, then maybe. But you just pulled this out of a front garden, parted with maybe £200? (hopefully) it will cost 4-5k to fix and most likely not be worth that. Good luck if you do go for the resto, you'll be mad, but I'd follow the build thread

[kevtherev]

What engine is it, do you know?

[curlie467]

Would it pull a few quid back breaking it?

[curlie467]

What engine is it, do you know?

Here it is. Petrol watercooled but not sure of capacity (if they differ) until i get the paperwork tomorrow.

[lloydy]

Would it pull a few quid back breaking it?

A grand minimum, depending on what works and what isn't rusty

[Plasticman]

right mr curlie, weve played the game ,it works both ways and weve suggested a value so what did you end up giving for it
mm

[kevtherev]

Aye it's time to fess up

[curlie467]

£500. Nay mind, not paid for it yet though so when I spoke to her about lowering the price due to it not actually being a westy, well, you can imagine how that went down!