Went to the SD1 club spares day at Gaydon yesterday, and there were other clubs there too. Classic taxis was one - and another sort of general one. Which had a Rover P5 motorhome among the more usual cars. Looked not too bad. No worse than any other similar conversion on a truck chassis.
An unusual motorhome...
Sep 28, 2009
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I used to own a P5, and there is certainly enough power in that engine to lug a motorhome around.
I wonder what they did for rear springs though. The standard leaf springs certainly wouldn't be up to it.
Did you get a photo?
Jim
It used to be easy to get leaf springs made to anything you want - just about any village blacksmith could do it.
Never even occurred to me. ;-(
Google images: "P5 motorhome" The first result shows a white beast - MBF 132H. As you say, doesn't look too bad.
Willy Eckerslyke gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying:
It's very... small... for a motorhome. I'm not even sure a garden gnome'd fit in it...
Found it!
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It is not the ideal angle to judge the size of it, but the open door by the people looking in gives some idea of scale. Assuming that the bed goes in the bit over the cab, the rest of is is a reasonable though not generous size for a couple.
Jim
Ah thats good just put another leaf in the spring.
Do these cars have a chassis?
r
Camper van then. It looked the same sort of size as original Transit based ones
Almost. IIRC two subframes that just about meet.
be interesting to see if they were joined for this conversion.
rWe were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Jim Warren saying something like:
I bet the drag on that is fearsome.
The P5 itself has the aerodynamics of a brick. Once you get above 80MPH you can watch the fuel gauge gradually going down. But it is all wind resistance - carrying extra weight or more passengers seems to have little or no effect on the fuel consumption.
All the motorhome will do is drop the speed at which that effect is visible.
Jim
Wow, you're obviously a very interesting person dave, have you any tales of crack in your private parts?
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