A BIG job!!!

Now i should be concentrating on getting the car ready, but after the Birkett i was totally cheesed off with camping!!! For the second half of this year i'd been constantly looking at motorhomes, touble is, i can't justify the cost of a decent one to the wife as she isn't that interested in getting one as "there are better things to spend our money on", if its just for racing then i could get an older one, but they are still fairly expensive for what is in essence a 15-20 year old van. If it was an old one the wife would never set foot in it, so buying it would be a completely selfish thing. So a fully converted motorhome is out of the question. I haven't got time to do a proper van conversion, and to be honest it doesn't give me exactly what i wanted. I'd looked at converting a 7.5 tonner, but the problem is i have nowhere to store it while doing the conversion. So i had virtually settled on a dropside transit with tail lift and a cheap caravan, it meant minimal work and was a damn site cheaper than motorhome. But whilst looking for said items i came across this:-

Its a Ducato 2.5T disabled city council bus. The beauty of it it is that its wider than a standard van and the Fury will actually fit inbetween the wheels arches. The rear double axle is on air suspension and at a touch of a button the back lowers only 300mm off the floor, so with some fairly short ramps the car will easily get up and inside. Once inside there is still room at the front for a fixed kitchen and bathroom. When the car is unloaded there will be fold out bench seats from the sides that will double up as 2 beds, and i will also have a fixed rear bunk and also a bed over the cab. This means it will sleep 5 (thats a bed each for all my trusty weekend warriors), but will also be capable of carrying everything to the event without towing a trailer.

Ok, the astute readers may have noticed the rear doors aren't exactly wide enough to get the car through, but i have a cunning plan involving a big cutting disk!!!

Build update to follow!!