Our Motorhome is now 13.4m long!
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- Опубликовано: 3 июн 2024
- One last HUGE modification! We’ve finally added an extension with an extra set of wheels!
Join us this week as we head to see family in South Wales and stop at Tow-a-car in Pontypool to shop for a tow car for our 17 year old son Eddie!
Have a look at the Towacar website where they have a list of available vehicles for sale www.towacar.co.uk/
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Pits & Bits that Lyndsay used to wash her hands pitsandbits.co.uk/
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Lucky lad to get mum and dad to buy such a nice car for him. Now all he needs to do is lower it, tinted front windows, loud exhaust and BIG sound system with a bass box filling up the boot.....nice.
Take after his dad then, with the bass box 😂
Yikes!!! He can’t afford the take after his Dad yet!
We have enough of those boy racers in MK lol😂😂
We all had to start somewhere in the 80’s and my hand me down car was my Grandads Escort mk2 pop plus. Really impressed with the towing system
My first car was a mk1 renualt clio 1997 fantastic little car , happy motoring, wont be long and u be driving the motorhome !!
My first car was a Ford Ka and I was so happy with it because it had a spoiler! I went with my parents to see it and my mum test drove it.
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Poor Linz doing all the cooking again and tidying the van 😂😂😂😂😂
It’s easier when the place is empty!
It’s easier when the place is empty!
He is a lucky lad and your super cool parents. Great video.
Mark 3 cortina, I think £250 maybe £300, my ambition was to own a car with no visible rust.
Thank you! We think so 😉
Wow, Eddie, that would be equivalent to a Ferrari for me when I was 17. For me, it was a 1951 Hillman Minx, which cost me a fortune back in the day, £45. I passed my test in it shortly after my 17th birthday with some freshly bought Fish & Chips on the rear seat. The examiner couldn't get out of the car quick enough, he spotted a friend of his on the way back to the test centre, told me to stop the car, hurriedly filled out the pass certificate, got out of the car and told me to drive off. Three years later, I was rally driving in Austria. Great video!
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My first car was an Austin Metro, bright red. However, when I first past my test I used to drive my Dad's old transit van with sliding doors. Loved it, my friends would pile in and we'd head off for the day.
My first car was a "Austin A30, 2 door Special" bought it off my cousin who had tried to hot it up & couldn't put it back together. Dad put it back, then I had to fight to drive it, he said it was too fast. Eventually got it to drive, great car, lots of weekends away surfing. It could do anything at lights, 1st to start plant food, used to jump out of gear, slap into 2nd. The males couldn't believe a female could do em. Great memories.
Lighting painted down both sides with flames lol
Awesome!!
The Aygo is excellent, very reliable, great as a runabout and a perfect tow car. On the clip it didn't look like you had the van plate and triangles fitted, but guess this is all in hand. Weve used the spring clip mounts to swap the plate, quick n easy. We also add On Tow signs to the side windows now, pulling out of junctions and roundabout can confuse a few drivers !! Enjoy 👍
My 1st car was a TE Cortina by Ford. Lovely green colour. Bought it brand new 2 weeks after getting my licence! Wrote it off in an accident I survived 18 months later, (collided with a cow, spun around and was hit by another car and pushed off the road through a fence.) 💜🇦🇺
My first car was a Hillman Imp, blue and bought from a work mate. I took my test in it and passed. Freedom at 18 is a wonderful thing.
Freedom! That’s exactly what the first car represents!
I remember the hillman imps my mum and dad had one
Hi Guys at Tow A Car are brilliant we bought an Arbarth as a Tow car last year and are getting used to towing but gives us even more freedom when we are out and about, PS First Car was a Marina for me and Nova for Karen, similar ages ? 🙂
My first car was a yellow Vauxhall Chevette, it cost £50 and the engine didn’t stop when I took the key out, it took a year to replace all the rusty body panels. So he’s a very lucky lad to have such a lovely Mum and Dad. Cheers
Great choice in the Aygo, my wife loved hers, she had the i-xcite model in orange with leather and keyless entry, cracking little cars. Loved the drone footage, that looks a fantastic bit of kit 🙂
I bought a 1965 Singer Gazelle from my mate in 1977. Failed it’s MOT and had to have all new inner wings fitted and a load of welding . Loved the car. Deep leather seats, walnut dashboard
Worth a fortune now.
1st car. 1966 Singer Chamois. (Hill man Imp variant).
Married at 20. Wife and I have been together since we were 17.
Passed my test 3 days after my 17th birthday.
At 21 I was driving class 1.
Been towing caravans since we bought our first brand new caravan (Sprite Alpine ) 1982. Had a trailer tent before that. (Erika Chantilly)
Retired now. Just. Got back from a three week trip around Somerset, Devon and the Cotswolds.
Ahhhh amazing memories!
Great video, he will enjoy his new car. Our first car was 1949 Austin A40 Devon i paid £40 .00 to my sister being a 17 yr old lad she let me pay her payments for her HP on her washing machine Happy Days
First car? Blue (important bit) 1984 Fiesta. Bought with and largely by my boyfriend at the time but later husband (of 32 yrs). Memories 😊
1st car mini, we now tow our vw up 4 seater brilliant car, well done Edd lucky chap congratulations 🎉 good luck with your exams x
thank you x
Love you guys and you made feel apart so thanks
1956 mk2 Ford Consul for £24-10s very quickly it developed a sag in the middle, the back doors would open when you went round a corner and closed again on S bends. It was sorted when we attached a bungee across the back doors. Front wings used to flap a bit due to egg in the remould tyres. How things have changed. He is a lucky lad.
Getting the most out of life, love it, enjoy guys.
Thank you x
nice tow car. my first car was a 1979 Fiesta Millionth addition. happy touring
My first car I owned was a 2003 I think Toyota RAV-4! My mom and I were at the dealership getting her 1996 Toyota Corolla serviced and decided to look around while we waited!
Nice outfit when you're all hitched up. My first car (at 17) in 1975 was a 1960 Ford Anglia, used oil and water like no one's business but it was my pride and joy, moved on to a mini after that.
We all love our first cars!!
First car, Chrylser Avenger mk 7. You can't go wrong with an Aygo. I brought my daughter a Peugoet 107 as a first car, it failed its MOT when she was 250 miles away whilst at Uni, managed to get it sorted remotely, but knew it would be a money bit, so when she came home at easter, I got her a brand new Aygo using a scrappage deal which covered the cost of the first car. I've got an Agyo X Limited converted with a Tow-a-Frame electronic system, more than happy.
Woah!!! Sounds awesome!
Burgundy Rover Metro 1.1 Quest Edition. Circa 1992? My late dad taught me to drive, well, along with an instructor. I was put in for my test after my first lesson, and passed 6 weeks after my 17th birthday.
It takes 6 months to even get a text booked now!
what an awesome time you have have, well done and enojoy....
My first car was a red mini metro - I remember driving to Harlech in it with my friend and we were camping in a two man tent - good times
Same set I had. Kontiki and anAygo on an A frame. It is almost impossible to reverse unless it is a straight line. A bit of advice, if you need to reverse it. Apply the steering lock to the car. Makes things a lot easier. Happy travels..
After passing my test in 1982, my 1st car was a Chrysler Alpine. DFP 969T. I had my 1st accident 12 months later and that was the end of the Alpine. I've had many makes of car since. You won't go wrong with a Toyota. I now drive a Toyota Avensis. A few years old but still looks and drives like new. 101,000 miles on the clock and has yet to fail an M.O.T. Utterly bomb proof. Best Wishes Ed and drive safe xx
Thank you so much!
You had the same first car as me!! I had a burgundy Chevette with the boot. it also had California chrome alloy wheels. Being a teenager at the time who was obviously invincible and a fully qualified F1 driver, I wrote it off. That was a tough lesson :)
Ouch!!! Tough and expensive lesson!
Very lucky boy!! Congrations on passing his test 🎉🎉 Makes me sad that I have not been able to do this for my kids 😢 They bought their own cars for a few hundred did them a good turn though and they were equally as excited 🚗
First cars will always be exciting!
Not my 1st car but a share with my Dad when l'd first passed my test. A Vauxhall Viva. The owner took us on a run out in it, he drove through 2 red lights & we were glad to get safely back to his home. Paid & left. We were both a tad shook up !!
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1300 gt mk 1 Ford escort . 1970 👌🏽. Wish I still had, worth a fortune now 😂. We tow the wife’s Toyota IQ behind the motorhome these days it’s a godsend once you’re on site 👍🏼🏴 love Joseph’s Swansea city shirt too ❤️
Joseph is a little legend!
Thank you x
Two helpings for me please. Looks delicious..
My first car was a 1984 Talbot Horizon. Bought it from a private seller, and asked why there were bits of straw in the boot. Apparently he use to transport chickens in it? 🐔
wow, we should all have a dad called Steve! Nice one Eddie. Thats a great car indeed. I wish you happy and safe driving.. tell you what, Steve, I do not miss driving a long van. Mr previous van, a Bessacar e473 was huge. Bessy regs- Kenny
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I love my Aygo. It has a convertible roof and leather interior. Not adapted for flat towing yet. Aygos don't have cruise control. You'll find it's a speed limiter.
I’d like to permanently limit him 🤣🤣
@@RoamingRadfords Set it and snap the stalk off!
I went car shopping with my dad . Got an A reg silver vauxhall nova hatchback lol 😂
1989 Ford Fiesta S.
great first car well done Radfords and good luck Eddie with your driving.
Thank you x
Austin Allegro with the square steering wheel. Paid £125 and drove it all the way to Draculas castle in Brasov Romania. Was hilarious being saluted by people all the way through Eastern Europe by people who thought we were government cus it wasn’t a Lada or Dacha. Never got saluted in it in the UK! 😂 Only British car we met was a cortina estate in Dubrovnik with a load of Aussies sleeping in the back of it 😴
I had a white Datsun Cherry in 1982! 😂
A fab addition for both! I bought a C2 for knocking around and going to the train station for work so it’d probably do for a tow car as well. My first car was a Vauxhall Astra but it was the Opel design with a small bootlid like the hatchback but the window doesn’t lift up. £330!!
Love Porthcawl, was always our holiday place when we were young 😍😎👍🏻🏴🏴
Sounds brilliant!
Ok first car morris marina 😮 😂😂we are booked in with Taf for our tow Barr and A Fram 👍
PS Morris Ital if you don’t mined 😂😂👍
My first car was a NSU PRINZ , reg OWM 908J (think that was a 1970 model) 600cc, rear engine, air cooled. No fan to clear the front screen which made defrosting it in winter impossible.
My first car was a green Morris Minor, bought for £40, had about a year and sold it for £50 back in the late 60s.
great video guys . Very lucky young man ! my first car was my big sisters Triumph Herald Estate in mellow yellow i loved that car ❤ Thanks guys looking forward to your next update in Italy 🎉
I hope you named it Custard the car!!!
And we’ve just gone live!
Mum and dad bought my first car, back in 1982, Fiat 126, in red. Remember headlining fell out and it was so noisy, my mum cut out a piece of carpet and stuck it in the roof, fun times
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First car Renault 4. Do not forget hookup list add it on to bungee rope of the brake pedal.
We just got a tow car too. We got an Abarth to tow behind our Chieftain. We used Towbars2towcars for ours. Great job. Currently three quarters down France and going well so far.
Looking forward to seeing how you get on . Hubby says his mpg is same as before as he now is driving a little slower so balances out.
Exactly that!!!
Great Vlog and have loved watching your recent posts for the upgrades to your MoHo and your travels.
My first car was a H Reg (1969-70) Mk1 Capri 1600 GT XLR in Yellow with a Tan Vinyl roof with black bonnet. I can remember spending out on all the bits and pieces, extra dials, chrome etc. even built an intermittent wash wipe with rain sensor, which was un heard of in the latter 70's 😊, just loved that car and was my pride and joy in my teens having passed my test just after my 17th birthday. My wife Deborah's first car was a Singer Chamois Mk2 2 Door1966 D Reg - better known as the Hillman Imp a few years after we were married way back in 1979, she loved it, and both our children loved going out with her, great memories 🥰
We've just had my wife's 22 plate VW UP GTI fitted with the Tow-A-Frame Smart Glide, which has the electric servo for braking, fitted by Mike Northeast (Mike & Bobby) at Tow-A-Frame on Hayling Island, March 2023 along with a Tow bar fitted to our Bailey 794i. like yours' its a big rig 😊 but really don't notice any problems towing at all, just a bit slower on the hills and lost a couple of mpg.
All the best on your new travels which I'm watching your latest Vlog drop this morning as we will definitely be doing a similar route and will be taking the tow car with us as I've got mobility issues now days.
Thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a great comment!!! We really appreciate it!
I keep a pair of gloves in the bag with the A frame. Saves getting dirty hands
Good tip!
My first car was a Fiat 127 "Sport", paid £60. I think it was a 1971, J reg, and I bought it when I was 17 in 1992. It had a dodgy synchromesh in the gearbox, changing down to second gear wasn't the best when going up the steep hill to where I lived at the time. Three months after buying it, I blew the engine.
He's a lucky lad with very generous parents. My first car, Ford Escort Mk2. T202 CAR £600. I should have kept the reg 😢. Raised suspension. Sports stearing wheel and alloys.😂 Loved it. 😍
Sounds amazing!!
Your motorhome is a beauty i would love to buy one like yours
My 1st car, Datsun Cherry, 120Y fantastic car 🚗 back in the day 😂😂
My first car was a 1975 Vauxhall vx4/90 in metallic green and cost all of £50
Great video guys, nice to see you here in South Wales, however, please don't keep saying about Wales always raining - it isn’t and we do have lovely weather like everyone else and sheep the same 😊 x
Another fantastic video guys and good to see my best friend Eddie and well done Eddie for learning to drive and my mams first car was red mini and we called him Ted he was absolutely fantastic with the union jack on the top of the car was absolutely fantastic and we had that car for 3 years absolutely loved it and guys another fantastic video and loved the new car and great to see you again take care and safe journey to Africa love you all guys xxxx
Thanks James x
My first car was a Morris Minor I loved it
Our first cars were a ford fiesta MK2 and Rover Metro. That metro took us everywhere! Love the idea of towing, just make sure you release the handbrake - on our latest trip we spotted a MoHo towing an A-Class and its back breaks were literally on fire!
Yikes
Lucky boy! Loved the sign about unattended children. Here they say, “Unattended children will be given a coffee, whistle and drum when collected” 😮 interesting about the A frame, France does not like them much and some older ones were illegal. Not sure now. Looking forward to your Morocco videos. Jo in France 🇫🇷
Thanks Jo!
Eddie is a lucky guy , that's a great 1st car , my 1st car was a Lada 1600
Ahhh Ladas!!! I’ve not thought about them in years!
108, c1 and the Aygo all the same interior and engine (1.0 version) and great cars. Android and car play won't work now, you'll want the 3 button version unit which is I believe is 2018 onwards.
Hi all. Are you towing your car to marocco.? If so you might have to reverse onto the ferry in southern spain
1974 2year old Mini. British racing Green and cost £2000 ! BDG 354K . I loved that car.
My father worked in the trade and my first car was a 1980 Ford Cortina in gold (I remember it was a big beast), however I never drove it, he sold it before I passed my test... my first driving car was a Ford Escort Mk1 in Silver and Blue.
MK1!!! Awesome!
HAPPY DAYS
My first car was a 80's mini, and went shopping for it with me dad, great day that 😊, loved that car, apparently its still on road now lol 😅
Amazing memories!
Hi guys, great vlog... lucky lad great set up..m We are just in the process of converting from a caravan after 24yrs into a kontiki 650 lowline, we are looking for a little advice on rear wheel clamps for the kontiki if you have any to give please, do you use them and if so which ones ?
My first car was a 1302s Baby Blue Beetle .. Great video .. X
Very cool!
Ooh, would love being in a caravan!
I'm in Australia, my first car was a Ford XY 1970 Model. $3,000.00, which i bought with my boyfriend at the time in 1985. It was manual 3 on the tree, he later converted my car to 4 on the floor Manual.
I have no idea what any of those terms were 🤣 but it sounds impressive!
My first car was a black Model T Ford with a crank starter.
D reg blue Cortina Mk1.learnt to drive in it and take my test .My oldest was Ford Thames van 1958 .
Oooosh Cortina MK 1
@@RoamingRadfords 💗💗💗💗💗
1972 Ford Escort Mk1. My next door neighbours gave it to me to "fix" rather than take it to the scrapyard 😂
My first car was a 1969 Ford Escort Estate and I paid £25 for it from a friend. Love the car we too looked at them at Peterborough with our daughter who would like one as she is learning to drive. Joe & Ellie
First car memories are amazing!!!
that is a great choice of car loving the red roof my first car was a 2002 ford ka luxury
That’s the perfect car for you!
Had my a frame stainless steel from chesterfield its been great good look towing
Awesome! Thank you x
My first car was a fiat 126 that cost me £450 in 1981. Rust bucket but got me started in life. Traded it in for a chevette.
Ohhhh nice switch
Hi folks love the new car it will come in handy 😊, I'd love to go down to Porthcawl I believe its lovely down there 😊
I’m from Port Talbot like Steve & Porthcawl is lovely but if you’re down that way you have to go to the Gower, especially Rhossilli, it is often in lists of top 10 beaches in the world.
They are incredible beaches!!!
with a bit of black cloth and a bit of velcro or cable tie, cover the key column so thieves cant see a key in it
Pont Kemys campsite is just down the road from me. Great site
Ooooh! I’ll add it to our list!
Hi loved this my first car was a Citroën 2CV absolutely loved it,weird gear change though but drove in the summer with the roof back and yes I live in Wales 😂
Roof off what ever the weather!!!
1987 Yugo 45A 😬😫😵💫 Dad gave it to me, so couldn’t complain. Went around roundabouts on 3 wheels 😂
Eeeeeek!
Oh my, I’ve just seen our tow car that we sold to Tow a car last month next to the C1 that you looked at!
Brilliant!!!
My first car was also a chevette... But I had the limited edition silhouette hatchback, black with lovely blue go faster stripe 😂
Oooooh very swish!
Mark III Fiesta, a real choke and a foot pumped screen wash
Woah!!! Foot pumped screen wash!!!
Great video as always 👌
Party bus on tour 😂 you need to change the number plate on the back of the tow car 😮 👍
We have!!!
Great video Steve and lyndsay Eddie was very lucky to have his first car brought for him my first car was a mini v reg got it of my mum and dad's friend very nice car Eddie
Thanks lovely Sally x
Ford Angela love your channel , thank you ❤
Awesome! Thank you
Turqoise Mini Clubman SBN 423J. Paid 450 quid for it. It had the 1100cc engine and I put wide wheels on it. Stuck to the road like a slug. That was 1978 Aaaaaaaargh
A wonderful car for Eddie, my first car was a mini metro (rust bucket) but I loved it, by then I was married with 2 girls at school 😂
1973 vauxhall viva got it in 1981 no stereo just a 8track and only a bee gee's cassette for it.
Attempted to repair the brakes on it but it didn't go very well on the test drive I went through the back of my mums garage and ended up in the neighbours garden 😊
Snap! (Though mine had nothing but a radio) it was impossible to get started, hours fiddling with the choke. Good riddance.
Yikes!!!!
Vauxhall seems to have been a really popular first car!!
My first car was a 1972 Triumph Toledo 1500cc in navy blue, it was given to me of my grandad as he had diabetes and his eyesight was not good
Morris Nomad, green in colour and cost £500. Loved it and called it Biddy
Biddy is a great name for a car!
wow what a Vvkog......... My first car was a toyota corolla... but I did learn to drive before that in a pick up truck with colon shift change
My first car was a 1962 Austin 1100 in honalulu blue it was older than me but was the right price.
I had a chevanne otherwise know as the passion wagon 😅😅😅
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First car was a 1972 VW Beetle 1200cc , 75mph top speed , i would overtake lorries on the flat on a hill they would overtake me ,loved it , it was freedom :)
It’s all about the freedoms of that first car!
@@RoamingRadfords Yep , currently have a Ford Grand Touneo that has a 1 berth setup in it , have the ability to cook ,wash ,and it all folds away behind the back seats for when im not micro camping :)