Life ’ s a beach !
Camper Round the Coast VW Type 2 set to raise £ 1000s for Prostate Cancer UK
Silverstone Auctions will be selling a rather special VW Type 2 Camper van this weekend , only weeks after it completed a mammoth tour around the coast of the UK to raise money and awareness for Prostate Cancer UK .
The joint project between Practical Classics Magazine and Classic Motor Show Sponsors , Lancaster Insurance Services Ltd , actually went down to the wire , with an MOT the day before departure on the 1979 van ’ s ( named Bluebell ) fund-raising tour following a two-year long full restoration .
The nut and bolt rebuild at the PC workshops had only just been completed but still , the wheels on the bus went round and round , over five days and the coastal tour of Britain ’ s best beaches was completed without a glitch . That can be counted as one of the most in-depth shakedown runs in history . It means you can buy with peace of mind , in the knowledge that someone else has run the rebuilt engine in .
It should also encourage you to bid generously and add to the money raised for Prostate Cancer UK on the trip . Camper Round the Coast ( CRTC ) followers and avid PC readers showed astonishing generosity , raising over £ 1000 for Prostate Cancer UK by coming out to join the van at every beach it visited . That sum , it is hoped , will be eclipsed by the amount raised at the Silverstone Auction .
The camper was reliable and turned lots of heads as it rolled from beach to beach at a steady 56mph . Once there it was greeted by swarms of PC readers and Lancaster customers who ’ d come along in their own classics to say hello and put some cash in the tin .
The first stop on the CRTC tour was the Beaulieu Autojumble , where Bluebell was the star of the show . Then it was onto the top five beaches in Britain , as voted for by PC readers and Lancaster Insurance customers , starting off at Woolacombe in Devon ( pictured ).
The run then took in Camber Sands , East Sussex , Saltburn-bythe-Sea , Cleveland , Bamburgh , Northumberland and finally