Stand By Your VW

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Photographs from the 1970s of my family's 1973 VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental motor-caravan on summer touring holidays in continental Europe.

My father (sitting on the towel) and my sixth-form college friend Tony - Anthony Marcus Clive Owers [who played a guitar, was sometimes known as "Hank", named after Hank Marvin of "The Shadows", who were associated with Cliff Richard], sunbathing at the campsite in Aix Les Bains in southern France in 1979.

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Photographs from the 1970s of my family's 1973 VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental motor-caravan on summer touring holidays in continental Europe.

I cannot remember the exact year when this photograph was taken, but it was sometime in the late-1970s or early-1980s, when Dutch friends Arthur & Hennie Borghoff and their two young children Zoe & Zeno, came to visit us in England.

The photograph features my father with Arthur, drinking tea (the preferred British beverage!) alongside a Ford Cortina Mk.2, in a car park somewhere in southeast England. The Ford Cortina was one of the best-selling cars in Great Britain!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Cortina#Mark_II_(1966–1970)

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Photographs from the 1970s of my family's 1973 VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental motor-caravan on summer touring holidays in continental Europe.

We were camped near Aix Les Bains in southern France; where all of the French holiday makers departed on mass the day after we arrived, at the end of the French national summer holiday!

This photograph of me on a racing bicycle (borrowed from Dutch friend Arthur Borghoff who was a cycle enthusiast) at the age of 23½ in 1979, features a road direction sign for Le Colombier, which was part of one of the race stages with a steep hill section, on one of the international "Tour de France" cycle races.

That was in the days when I had a lot more hair, had a 28 inch waist and weighed 8½ stone (i.e. 8 stone 7 pounds or 119 pounds in USA parlance!).

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Photographs from the 1970s of my family's 1973 VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental motor-caravan on summer touring holidays in continental Europe

Our then newly purchased, second-hand 1973 VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental and the VW 1300 Type 1 Beetle belonging to our Dutch friends Hennie & Arthur Borghoff, outside their home in Apeldoorn, before we all departed for our 1975 summer holiday in Ettlebrück, Luxemburg.

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Photographs from the 1970s of my family's 1973 VW 1600 Type 2 Westfalia Continental motor-caravan on summer touring holidays in continental Europe.

Seen from left to right, this is my father, myself and my sixth-form college friend Tony (all slender, British adult males!), preparing for lunch, during our summer holiday in either Luxemburg (1975) or southern France (1979).

My mother, out of sight, was the one taking the photograph using a Kodak Instamatic camera, with non-35 mm format colour-reversal film

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1974 VW Karmann Ghia converted to electric by EV4U Custom Conversions.

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1974 VW Beetle converted to electric by EV4U Custom Conversions.


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