As some of you may well have noticed, I am a Volvo guy, I have owned only Volvos for about the last five years, and spent 3 solid months last winter building my dream car, a Volvo 240 turbo (until now, considederd undoable by the majority of the RHD Volvo community... if only they had tried....) with uprated suspension, I fully intended to keep this car indefinately, slowly upgrading it as life went on.
One of the purposes of the 240T was to go touring round Europe, we have done this in the past in previous Volvos using tents and enjoyed it very much but we are no spring chickens and blowing up a double inflatable mattress everyday was taking its toll.
Until last week, this was a fact of life when the missus and I decided to get a camper and we spotted a clean, low miles Bedford CF2 on Ebay.
My wife and I both fell in love with it at first site and I went down to Barry to see it right away.
I had a quick look at the van and shook the guys hand.
Last night we went to pick it up. The more we learnt the more we liked it. Its got a gas fired indirect fan heater under the floor, a copper immersion tank hot water system, a nice 4 speaker cd/radio stereo with remote control, 2 sunroofs, a 2 ring hob and grill, a coolbox, a rock and roll sofa-bed, rotatimg captain seats and 2 litre 4 cyl engine and oh so easy to drive 3 speed autobox.
It cruises nicely at 50-60 mph returning 25mpg and is soooo easy to drive, I feel I could do 8 hrs in it non stop and not feel tired.
We picked it up yesterday at 7 pm and by 8 we were setting up at a campsite in the Brecon national park.
anyway on with the pics.......
This morning we had coffee and bacon sandwiches cooked on my meths stove.
Boot/storage
eightystacular dash.
Some kids nicked the MURVI badge off the front, I was thinking about making one that says BEDFWD
Cruising round the Brecon Beacons
One of the purposes of the 240T was to go touring round Europe, we have done this in the past in previous Volvos using tents and enjoyed it very much but we are no spring chickens and blowing up a double inflatable mattress everyday was taking its toll.
Until last week, this was a fact of life when the missus and I decided to get a camper and we spotted a clean, low miles Bedford CF2 on Ebay.
My wife and I both fell in love with it at first site and I went down to Barry to see it right away.
I had a quick look at the van and shook the guys hand.
Last night we went to pick it up. The more we learnt the more we liked it. Its got a gas fired indirect fan heater under the floor, a copper immersion tank hot water system, a nice 4 speaker cd/radio stereo with remote control, 2 sunroofs, a 2 ring hob and grill, a coolbox, a rock and roll sofa-bed, rotatimg captain seats and 2 litre 4 cyl engine and oh so easy to drive 3 speed autobox.
It cruises nicely at 50-60 mph returning 25mpg and is soooo easy to drive, I feel I could do 8 hrs in it non stop and not feel tired.
We picked it up yesterday at 7 pm and by 8 we were setting up at a campsite in the Brecon national park.
anyway on with the pics.......
This morning we had coffee and bacon sandwiches cooked on my meths stove.
Boot/storage
eightystacular dash.
Some kids nicked the MURVI badge off the front, I was thinking about making one that says BEDFWD
Cruising round the Brecon Beacons
;D
