Oh ok, it is Aotearoa and whats a little snow eh? These mites certainly look like they are enjoying it! A wonderfully “cool” looking Bedford PFK?..
Update: some more info on this Bedford from the proud owner…
Yes, she’s a 1978 PFK running a 330 Bedford diesel, 5 speed, power steering. Coach work is by Hawke, and it was originally built as a library bus. The body is near perfect and at only 7.2m long, can park it anywhere. With massive height and width there is a real sense of space on board – no comparison to any jap 7 or 8m vehicle…

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A friend has just recently returned from a trip to China and provided me with the photo below.

Was sorting my photos – thought you would like to see this one of a two-tank LPG motor scooter.  There is a little tape on this one, but not as much as I saw on others.  Most of the scooters were either electric or LPG so you didn’t hear them coming (and they could drive on footpath!)

Hi all,

I’m new here and to house-trucking in general. Though it’s something I’ve thought about for many years.

Have just left Great Barrier Island after twenty years and moved to Thames.

Not happy here so I now have my house on the market and intend to by a rolling home with the proceeds.

What concerns me with living permanently in a bus or truck is where to park long term as my touring will likely be occasional.

Does anyone know of any like minded groups of house truckers that have a place to park up, long term and don’t mind others joining in? Camp grounds don’t do it for me and are expensive.  North island only and prefer in or around Auckland.

Questions welcome and thanks in advance for any help.

A light hearted look at how fun it is to drive in China…

This colourful Bedford van has been repowered with a Nissan Diesel. Originally called “Inspiration” but is likely to be changed to “Jellybean”.

Van is headed down South. Keep your eyes peeled and wave out if you see it. (More pictures to be added to the gallery as soon as I can find a spare 5 minutes…)

Mike managed to corner Dave and extract some info out of him about “the lifestyle”. Read the latest interview in the Articles section.

I think I may have to modify some questions. A few more open-ended questions perhaps, and a lot less yes/no questions…Let me know if you are prepared to bare your soul. It is coming up to winter, and we need some more material. In that respect, please feel free to share any stories about life on the road. the funny moments, the hard moments, the freaky moments etc…

Also thinking about setting up a market place on this site so you can share your wares.

So the police are going to enforce a “zero tolerance” speed limit of + 4k’s over ‘er royal majesty’s birthday weekend. Nuff said, yeah?

It doesn’t matter anyway ’cause you’ll be parked up beside a lovely babblin’ brook in da glass of wine enjoying a sausage an’ cart an’ ‘orse. Know what I mean?

Take it easy out there and enjoy the long weekend (if you are fortunate enough to have a long weekend, innit?)

Another housebus fire. Stuff.co.nz. Lets hope the guy wasn’t seriously injured, and in respect for the family’s wishes, please, lets not assume anything.

Keep safe out there boys and girls. Make sure you have a couple of good fire extinguishers on board. One accessible from the inside and one accessible from the outside.

www.housetruck.co.nz
A place to sell and buy housetrucks, housebuses and associated items. This site is up for sale on TradeMe for (buy now) $35000, or a start reserve of $3500. Ranks #1 in Google for “housetruck” and “house truck”. I see the Mack advertised as found a new owner!

I was reminded of this song after the recent John key inteview about cannibals. Hilarious.

Of course, we weren’t so hung up on political correctedness back in them days…but nowadays, everyone is offended by something or other. All I can say is lighten up!