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Adverse reaction

Unfortunately, there’s no other way to start this story than on a downer. It’s not how we normally like to get into feature Vans, but on this occasion the bad stuff has to come first.

With great popularity comes a greater chance that the less-than-honourable underbelly of society will also take notice. The call to arms on Facebook is sadly an almost daily occurrence in the search for missing Campers, and so it was last October when Tim Roylance and his wife, Michelle, experienced the double blow of having their house broken into and the keys for their Mk7 GTi and 2007 T5 taken.

The GTi was recovered after a police chase, but the T5 was never seen again.

Tim: “We got rid of the Golf because it just didn’t feel right after that, but it was the loss of our family Camper that hit the hardest.

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