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WOOD YOU BELIEVE IT?

Necessity is the mother of invention, so the proverb goes. The driving force for any kind of innovation is always an imagination, so when 30-year-old Taunton resident, Pete Escott, took on his second big T4 project within a few years he was never likely to tread the same path as everyone else. As a keen bassist and longterm band member, the primary reason for van ownership initially involved that age old tail of throwing loads of gear in the back and driving around various grotty old venues kicking out some jams with his fellow ‘Bill and Teds’. If time travel were indeed possible in this T4 Pete might have decided to fast forward to 2020 right then, but in 2016 he ended up with a moderately rusty, ex-builders hack with 167,000miles on the clock. For £2500 it was an absolute bargain and Pete knew exactly what he was about to embark upon. “At the time I just needed it to

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