like Father, like Son- Bringing a dream to life

In the 70's, as a family of six we spent our summer holidays camping in a large frame tent all over the UK.

With 4 children and two adults it was always a challenge getting all the kit into our family car- a two tone, black and tan, Austin maxi. My father, who was a small business entrepreneur, came up with the idea of cutting a mini traveller in half, making it into a trailer and colour co-ordinating the trailer to match the two tone car- it looked amazing.

Its first outing was to France in 1975 and, as a 13 year old boy, I was really proud of how it looked, always drawing attention from fellow campers and a great ice breaker to start chatting and meet new friends.

Forty Seven years later, I had the idea to do the same with the purple Fiat 500 that we had towed for a number of years behind our two previous Motorhomes. After a number of hours sketching out a design to match our most recent van- "Farrervan III", I spoke to a local company who turned my vision into reality-the result is shown in the pictures.

Every time I drive the new set up it takes me back to that summer in 75 driving around with my family in Paris and although my own family can enjoy it today, my only regret is that I left it too long  and sadly, my father did not have a chance to see it.

He would have loved it!