Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Minty]

Hello All,

I am currently finishing off the restoration of my 1938 Lanchester LA14-2 car...which (fingers crossed) will be done by the summer...

The Lanchester is a fairly large, 1803cc, 6-Cylinder - OHV car, with a pre-select gearbox and fluid flywheel drive, made by Daimler.

Once it's finished, I would love to eventually buy a suitably sized, period(ish) style caravan, to tow behind it for weekend shows etc.

Can anyone recommend any suitable 3-4 birth 'candidates' caravan-wise, that would both look the part behind the car (not to large/small nor too modern stylewise) and which are fairly available - and if so, who to speak too, and/or where to go to look, when I want one???

My thoughts are that in an ideal world, I would love an old Winchester style van, but being realistic money-wise, something like an old Sterling would be fine or possibly an early Cheltenham (but these are possibly a little too modern in my eyes) - unless you guys know differently of course!

I'd be happy to do a fair amount of work to a suitable van, but I wouldn't want to have to do yet another full restoration!!!

Any suggestions anyone?

Kind Regards - Guy.
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'38 Lanchester LA14-2 'Roadrider' DeLuxe and lover of all things 'WW2 - Jeep'!!!

[gresham flyer]

If you cannot find a pre-war caravan,there are a lot of 1950`s caravans retaining the period look.

Although these are getting harder to find.

I like good quality caravans built up to say 1972,then we lost the plot,Sam Alper had took over,a bit like British Leyland with the Allegro,Maxi,Marina etc,even Jaguar and Aston Martin built some crap.

At least you have some taste in cars

Regards
Mark.