This is the full and unedited story of our December 1972 VW Type 2 Holdsworth camper (officially motor caravan) with reg OUD888L. We're Mark, Jen and our son Harry and we live in Gateshead in the North East of England (UK). This blog is an attempt to catalogue for prosperity the work carried out to this great vehicle and to record technical information about rebuilding, renewing, tweaking and tinkering to get this bus into the usable condition it is in today.
We bought the bus back in September 2005 from a local chap called Michael, many people have bought various busses from him over the years and he's a nice guy. We were super skint at the time and he allowed us to pay the £700 over a number of months. I think the same bus now would cost three times that.
The bus turned up on a low loader, my wife was instantly horrified by the remarkably poor bodywork and the amateurish graffiti on the front panel. It was actually not in too poor condition considering it is an original RHD UK bus. The engine was however not original and was a 1600 unit from a T25 which at the time we though was OK, it turned out to not last more than 3 miles!
Some images from the day we bought the bus, it was in a sorry state to say the least. Thankfully the original interior was with the bus and the headliner was in excellent condition. All we needed was a solid bus to put it in - and so the work began (it hasn't stopped since!).
We bought the bus back in September 2005 from a local chap called Michael, many people have bought various busses from him over the years and he's a nice guy. We were super skint at the time and he allowed us to pay the £700 over a number of months. I think the same bus now would cost three times that.
The bus turned up on a low loader, my wife was instantly horrified by the remarkably poor bodywork and the amateurish graffiti on the front panel. It was actually not in too poor condition considering it is an original RHD UK bus. The engine was however not original and was a 1600 unit from a T25 which at the time we though was OK, it turned out to not last more than 3 miles!
Some images from the day we bought the bus, it was in a sorry state to say the least. Thankfully the original interior was with the bus and the headliner was in excellent condition. All we needed was a solid bus to put it in - and so the work began (it hasn't stopped since!).
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