80/100 ser L.C

I had to pay $24000 to get a "96" model in the condition I was after and had to settle for a petrol.

Been there, done that, spent months looking for what I wanted in a 80 series. Your right anything cheap will be well and truly used, usually petrol and ready to consume huge amounts of $$$$ in repairs.
Found what I wanted in a diesel but had to play the waiting game and be prepared to pay.
Cheers.

Took 4mths to find the "right" 80series turbo diesel auto , lots and lots of petrol , manual and auto available from as little as 10k , go diesel add 4/5k ,add factoy turbo add another 4/5k ,want auto ? add another 4/5k ,,under 200k Klm ? add another 4/5k ,sth east Qld retail.

Kimberley, how's the new van? What's the set-up? Are they your spares on the roof? (Tom Price Rd photo)

At the mo, we either tent it off-road, or on road van. Dilemma, whether to go for something like a good off-road camper, or off-road van. Favouring the trailer so far.

G'day Steve

The photo of the van on the Tom Price Road is our old van and yes there were two spares on the roof when we did the big run. That van was a mid nineties Viscount on roader that ended up slightly modified to suit a bit of offroad work and was unfortunately outgrown.

The new toy (new van) is a Coromal PC 546 off roader (dirt roader is more politically correct). Tandem, independant suspension, pop top with all of the luxuries of home, air con, hot water, external shower etc but unfortunately no hot and cold running barmaids, the other half wouldn't let me take that option!
We purchased the van new in May and apart from the 1000km run home from Darwin have managed a couple of bush runs around here for the weekend type stuff. Very happy with its performance, comforts and off road abilities. Obviously any van in the scrub is not as nimble and manouverable as a smaller trailer and does restrict where and how far you can get into the bush but thats a trade off we are happy with. On the bigger trips we are happy to get as close to where we want to go with the van, set up base camp and tent it in if neccessary.

Over the past few years we have progressed through the chain from tenting to camper trailer to on road van to off road van. It all depends on what your comfortable and happy with. I just found that I'm really over tents/trailers were I have to spend the end and start of my travelling day setting up or dismantling my bed.
The price of new vans/trailers is always a the cause for some dilemma as to what should we do. We are more than happy with our decission.

Cheers
Wal

hi ADM..email on the way..thanks