Thanks for having me sitting on the end of my seat for half an hour getting this van out. Reminds me of a time I had my very own police escort home rescuing an old cotswold

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

David - ha ha - so you understand !! That one was looking dead easy but didnt quite turn out like that in the end - but although wet it was a great morning with some near misses on the side building - glad you liked it - hope your doing ok David too!

Three days late but I just saw your video on the caravan. I'm in Crescent Beach, British Columbia, Canada and my hobby for years was restoring vintage caravans and converting buses and vans into campers. I saw a Sprite caravan for sale here a few months ago at a reasonable price but a 80 years old all I could do is wish it was possible. I've had to rescue some that were parked 40 years before in a forest so I recognized the struggle. Looking forward to the restoration. Thank you for the video.

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Eddy - great to hear from you from Canada - and that you to restored vintage trailers - yes Sprite built in US for a few years in early 70's and exported from UK in late 60's. Sounds like you to have had some great adventures getting a trailer out of a overgrown tomb ! Thank you for the contact please feel free to share the video.

AH a modern one - we had the model before this with the rounded side windows - we spent many happy holidays in it - back then my parents towed it with a vauxhall victor we had a plastic pipe running between the caravan and the car through the windows it had a whistle in one end so if we blew down the hose the whistle sounded and we could shout down the hose and tell our parents if there was a problem in the caravan - Motoring was different then !!! Luckily we all survived !

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Ha ha that is a great tale - so the Sprite 14 then thats on the first part of the video - great days back then - thanks for sharing Jon

yeah good to watch that , thankyou. these restorers must have the patience of the gods. i am grateful to em for doing it cos i love to see these things out and about. thanks again 👍

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Paul - thank you for watching and staying with part 2 !!! Love to see stuff saved - again thanks for comments and supporting the channel

I'd love this as a project great to see there still out there

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

not many left but hoping to go and check it out in a few months - thanks for the comments

i think a box of matches comes to mind ahah

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Wash your mouth out sir!! Its a gem Lennie - bit of history - ta for your comments

Hi Andy, that was a very enjoyable video and great to see just how much work goes into getting these Classic Caravans out of a tight space. There will be a lot of old paint to remove before getting it back down to a repair and paint condition. Isn't it fairly dry for a van that age, even the upholstery hasn't any mould on it. Going to be a lot of work around getting those windows repaired and restored too. Great job and well done for sticking to the task on a rather wet day.

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Kevin - thank you What I was hoping to show was how it should be done while others may damage it further and also not transporting it properly as these guys did. Yes some work buy could be done quite easily with care - thanks Kevin

We had a 2013 musketeer, so it’s great to see this saved. My wife and I grew up with Lynton, Thompson, and Vikings. Now own a Bailey. Love your books by the way Andy 😀

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Oh those names - I have a heap of Lynton stuff as I knew the designer who designed from 66 to 74 - and thank you for you comments on the books too so good to hear - appreciated!

@alexrankin8263

4 ай бұрын

Loved your Sprite book, which we have a copy of. My wife would love to see anything on the Lynton Arrow you may be able to share. We have a few period photos of the Lynton and the Fibreline you would be very welcome to use in a future book if you wish? Keep up the very good work! Regards Alex

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Alex thank you - what year was the Arrow ? If you get onto my FB caravan Industry expert page and message me thta would be good and I can then see if I can produce a image of the Arrow - same goes for the Viking too - I knew Reg Dean the Lyntons designer - Glad you enjoyed the Sprite book too, and also watching the channel.

Wow what a find hope they keep it and restore it be nice to see what they do with it 😊

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Sure it will get some repair work - thanks Julie

Funny you mentioned them being built in NZ, i always wondered if there was a connection with the Sprite name. I was building Zephyr caravans in NZ in the 70s so i tended to notice other caravans. She definitely needs some tlc, good luck with it.

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Great to hear from you - yes Sprite UK was in New Zealand from the 50's and the parent group Caravans International made Monro Caravans in the 70s there check out my book the Caravans International Story amazon - tells of the NZ connection and all the brands Sprite, Eccles etc - thanks for contacting and please share the video in NZ! Thanks for watching

My mum and dad bought one just like this one in 1960 it was new and had it delivered by the dealer to a small site in the country we was their all summer every year for years the only difference was it had a drop down bed in the back and a small table when the bed was up wish we still had it now

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Mike yes they did the drop down bed another popular layout in the Musketeer - what great memories you have of those days when caravanning was more carefree - thanks for you comments and memories

Yet another brilliant video Andrew! When I was growing up one of our neighbour's had the exact same model!! You just need to do a feature on Richard's Discovery now ( an early 93 model if I'm not mistaken) Land Rover's being my other great passion after caravan's.

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Nigel - thank you - it wasnt Richards Disco it was my friend who was taking the Sprite. Great to hear from you Nigel and thanks for watching to hope to see you at one of the shows at some stage would be good to meet agan

My mums sprite was blue and cream and we only used gas for cooking and had paraffin for lighting has we got the paraffin in a gallon can we got from the village shop we played cards and games when the whether was bad but mostly it was sunny mum made pies and nice dinners in the oven that my dad fitted we had great times at the caravan we still had the caravan till the middle of the 90s we must of had it for about 35 years on the same site it only did 14 miles on the road from the dealer to the site in all that time lovely memories of Holliday's and weekends away in the caravan

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Mike great this video brought back such good memories. The time you described sounds so nice and good fun - great to hear of your caravan holidays - thank you for sharing on the channel.

I had one of these built in the1960's, it was in better condition than this one but after not using it for a few years it was infested with mice. Sadly we set fire to it in 2023, but at least it got rid of the mice.

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

How sad - for the mice!

Best place for that heap of junk nearest scrapyard😂

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Thats not the spirit of things - thats like saying knock down windsor castle after the fire ha ha

@petemullen842

4 ай бұрын

@@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk yeah you’re right mate, that’s well worth preserving. I was only having a laugh to get a reaction. Good luck to you and your project

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

Hi Peter - no offence taken ha ha - its like my archive folk say get a skip!!! - But I need it for my job - its been worked on at the moment and over the coming months I am hoping to do a return video on it - thanks for the cheeky comments too!!

@petemullen842

4 ай бұрын

😊👍

@caravanindustryexpertandyjenk

4 ай бұрын

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