G'day all
Signed up a couple of days ago, been doing LOTS of reading &
idea stealing checking the good ideas of others
Been doing the tent camping (though not as often as I would've liked), went to the Caravan & Camping show at Batemans Bay last november to see what was around.
Minister for finances showed a big interest in the Pop-Tops. We'd decided we liked that idea, but at 23k for the cheapest-& finances the way they are for now, figured we'd wait a couple more yrs.
In the past I'd toyed with the idea of getting a trailer & marrying it with our tent, so started checking them out while we were there.
Looked at a few & 2 really caught our eye, price being a major factor
As we've got a Mitsi Lancer, the off-roads were out of the picture straight up, though they gave us an idea of what was what.
One CT was $4200, but things like spare wheel + holder, on road costs, mattress, annex floor etc drove the price up, though to be fair, for the show, they where throwing in some of the extras
The other included all those extras as standard for $4000 + knocked $500 off if we payed cash at the end of the show - saved them towing it back to Sydney as well
Gotta say, only took me making a cuppa & 5min of begging/pleading/groveling/crying/making promises for the minister to be convinced
So
Champion Campers got our business.
As she came
Just the tent
Minus the Annex floor & front wall
Being on the cheaper side, there're a couple of things that show it, but as I'm not an anal type of bloke, I can happily live with 'em
Things like safety chain rusty, trailer itself has some small areas that could use a paint touch-up, structs to hold the tent up for access into the trailer had bracket holes drilled in the wrong place when building & then corrected (but I'll just give them a touch of weld to fill.
Had her out 3 times now on short trips to get the feel of things, & gotta say, even the minister now thinks we've done the right thing, more than happy
