This is the story of Vikki the Viking, a brave and fearless little caravan born in 1968 (we think). Cait, Gibson and James are attempting to bring her back to life...she's a bit battle scarred. Her full title is Viking Fibreline 1. Remember that blogs work in reverse, so either hit the "end" button on your computer keyboard or scroll right down to get a logical sequence.

Friday, July 14, 2006

Vikki Arrives


Well here she is - Vikki, named by James the junior restorer. She is our first tin tent...only she's not tin, she's mainly fibreglass. Vikki is a Viking Fibreline 1 from 1968, we think. We've never had a caravan never mind tried to restore a caravan but we think she could be very sweet and a lot of fun and she's in not bad nick so we are hoping we haven't taken on a crazy project.
We are desperate for help and advice so please add any comments, hints, tips and feel free to tell us if we have done a really silly thing. We have been searching everywhere for information about caravan restoration and there isn't much around so all and any help will be appreciated.
We have sent off our membership forms and money for the Viking Fibreline Club and for the Period and Classic Caravan Club and look forward to any advice from members of these clubs, we won't be rallying for a while but we can't wait to get out and start chatting to other caravanners and check out theirs...especially old ones.



posted by paintycait at 1:23 PM

2 Comments:

Blogger Ean Monk said...

hi,
Great Blog, We had a Viking as our first caravan for 3years and had many happy hoilidays and weekends away in it. Got loads of photos if you are interested. I also painted the chassis and did minor repairs including replacing the window seals, some minor re sealing of the body making a new frame for the door. We sold it earlier last year to a guy who was going to travel around the country with his family for a year!! It was a great caravan, very well made, but a bugger to tow as the over ride brakes never worked and it had a very heavy nose weight which made it pitch quite a lot. the older ones like yours are much lighter. A friend of ours brought one about the same age as yours last year and it was much lighter and more pleasant to tow. unfortunately when he got it home and started stripping it out he found out it was saturated and beyond repair so he broke it up and took it to the scrap yard.
We now have 2 caravans a 1990 Castleton and a 1973 portafold which i am planning to do up over the coming summer (If we get one)
Anyway let me know if you want any photos.
Ean

2:07 PM

 
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Hi, dont know if your blog is still active but we have just inherited the same caravan and are starting to restor her and would love to know how you have got on as noted that the dates on the blog are 2006

12:29 PM

 

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