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Are you the proud owner of a retro or vintage caravan or do you know someone who is? Do you spend your weekends, like us, escaping to the countryside in your Willerby or lovingly restoring your Spartanette or customising your Westerner? If so, this is your chance to share your passion for caravanning with the rest of the world.

After years spent enjoying the sanctuaries their caravans offered, I am working with two caravan owners and enthusiasts to compile a book featuring retro, classic and customised caravans, dating through the end of the 1970s, from around the world.

In this time where expensive holidays are not always possible and concern about our carbon footprints makes long-haul flights less attractive, caravanning offers a wonderful holiday option people might not have previously considered. The interest in caravanning is rapidly growing. With an eye for detail and lovely styling, our hardback, landscape format book will be a visual treat, one which opens up caravanning to a whole new generation of stylish couples and families. We have always known caravanning was cool but this is your chance to show people just how fantastic your caravan and the caravan community is.

As you can imagine, this book is a labour of love but we are convinced that other people would like to share their passion for all things caravan too, be it retro interiors, archive images or pieces of original advertising. With a limited budget we are hoping that you might be able to help us make this book something special.

The book will be primarily photographic so we initially need you to send us pictures including:

- The exterior of your caravan – front, back and sides
- The interior of your caravan – including any design features, period details, fixtures and fittings
- Details about your caravan (make, model, year)
- Any brief personal comments you might like to share (i.e. reason for purchasing, where you take your caravan, your feelings about owning a caravan etc)

People have become increasingly inventive about the use of their caravans. If you use yours as a spare room, office, guesthouse, sporting holidays like surfing, or merely to escape your everyday life, and are happy for it to be featured in a coffee table book, we would love to see it.

We are also keen to track down old photographs, filmed footage, advertising material or caravan memorabilia dated through the 70s.

If your caravan or materials are selected, we will, of course, provide you with a copy of the book and any stills that might be taken by our photographers.

If you are interested please email Maggi Townley on mycoolcaravan@yahoo.com or call her on 07958 990 140.

We look forward to hearing from you and spreading the caravan word far and wide.