racingjason
Adventurer
Hello everyone. I have finally decided to introduce myself take part in what seems to be a very interesting forum. My name is Jason and my wife Kellie and I are proud owners of "Higgins", a 1980 Series III Dormobile (one of us is more proud than the other mind you). We are currently living in England but it looks like we will be returning home to Canada in the near future with Higgins in tow.
Now those of you who are familiar with Dormobile will know that Martin Walter did not build Dormies past the mid seventies but Higgins was lucky enough to find an new way of life from "John" a rotting (but mostly complete) original Dormobile. (We were even able to recover the curtains!) Both trucks had V8 conversions but with the price of fuel and an episode of sputtering after driving the petrol engine through a modest puddle on the highway the decision was made to swap in a 200tdi. ACH Land Rovers in Lowestoft did a great job of swapping the Discovery engine in and during our inaugural journey through Western Europe and Morocco we had no major issues and averaged about 27 mpg (imperial) throughout the trip which I found astounding considering the type of driving we were doing. Tim at Dormobile helped us get the pop-top and interior bits in order before the journey began. There was so much to do that we departed England with boxes of parts in the back but a few hours here and there and we regained our living space as pieces were installed in their proper place. At this point there is still a laundry list of things to do but not a bad rig overall. I have a few questions for the Series veterans on this forum but I will save them for a dedicated post. I have attached a few pictures if anyone is interested.
Cheers,
Jason
Now those of you who are familiar with Dormobile will know that Martin Walter did not build Dormies past the mid seventies but Higgins was lucky enough to find an new way of life from "John" a rotting (but mostly complete) original Dormobile. (We were even able to recover the curtains!) Both trucks had V8 conversions but with the price of fuel and an episode of sputtering after driving the petrol engine through a modest puddle on the highway the decision was made to swap in a 200tdi. ACH Land Rovers in Lowestoft did a great job of swapping the Discovery engine in and during our inaugural journey through Western Europe and Morocco we had no major issues and averaged about 27 mpg (imperial) throughout the trip which I found astounding considering the type of driving we were doing. Tim at Dormobile helped us get the pop-top and interior bits in order before the journey began. There was so much to do that we departed England with boxes of parts in the back but a few hours here and there and we regained our living space as pieces were installed in their proper place. At this point there is still a laundry list of things to do but not a bad rig overall. I have a few questions for the Series veterans on this forum but I will save them for a dedicated post. I have attached a few pictures if anyone is interested.
Cheers,
Jason
