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    TAKING A CLASSIC TOUR of Europe

    Jan 23, 2020 7 minutes

    NOTHING SPURS YOU to finish a project like a tight deadline. Rather ambitiously, I decided to take my 1960 Car Cruiser Carousel on our annual pilgrimage to the European Classic Caravan Rally with the Retro Caravan Club. And just a month before we were due to set off, I stood looking at the empty, unpainted shell, which had no windows, and thinking, “I can do this!”

    I bought the Car Cruiser some years ago, at a house clearance. Looking at the various site receipts we found in the drawers, it must have been standing in the garden since around 1978. Alas, the poor caravan was so bedded into its resting spot, the council had apparently refused to cart it away. Clearly, there was only one man crazy enough to take this on…

    Finishing in record time

    Fast forward nearly five years, and various other classic caravan and car projects had rather got in the way. But tired of looking at the derelict Car Cruiser, I decided its first trip with me should be the same as its last trip in 1978; on the Continent.

    Armed with this notion and a lot of determination, we pushed on to finish the

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