Carapark found in a paddock

[manu]

Hey there I have found a carapark superb model in a paddock.
I was wondering what these are worth?
I have been keeping my eye out for a vintage caravan for months and I finally may have found one.

It looks good on the outside but trailer is super rusty and inside looks all rotten.

It's a small looking one All silver
How do u put photos up? I took a bunch

[Aussie]

Oct 27, 2014 18:23:54 GMT 10 manu said:

Hey there I have found a carapark superb model in a paddock.
I was wondering what these are worth?
I have been keeping my eye out for a vintage caravan for months and I finally may have found one.

It looks good on the outside but trailer is super rusty and inside looks all rotten.

It's a small looking one All silver
How do u put photos up? I took a bunch

Great find!

You can add them as an attachment with a max file size of 4mb OR you can link them from an external source such as Photobucket, Flickr etc.

Hope this helps.

[manu]

Can't seem to add photos from my phone..

How valuable are these. I have to offer the farmer a fair price. Any help would be appreciated
It looks great from the outside but the frame looks rusty, and the actual trailer has had it, I'm not sure if its worth trying to drag it out of there or not..

[Don Ricardo]

Hi Manu,

As Aussie has mentioned, one way of posting photos is to post them via Photobucket or one of the other online photo storage websites. There are instructions in the 'Forum Guidelines & Helpful Hints' section of the forum.

Regarding giving you advice on what the Carapark is worth, we have a forum policy that we cannot discuss prices on the open forum. The reason is given in the following quote from the Forum Guidelines that you'll find by clicking here:

"VALUING CARAVANS
The value of vintage caravans varies widely according to the age, scarcity, condition and desirability of the caravan in question. In the end, the value of a caravan depends on what one person is willing to pay another at a given time, based on their specific interests and preferences. For this reason we ARE NOT ABLE to assist in valuing caravans."

Unfortunately there is no reliable guide to the value of vintage caravans, unlike, say, cars. The value really does depend on what the buyer is willing to pay, and the seller to accept - often very much a case of one person's junk being another person's prized possession!

If you can post some pics of the van we can give you some idea of what it would take to get it back on the road - in terms of effort - and what the issues are that you might need to watch out for. One of the problems of the Carapark "toaster" vans is that the rivets in the cladding used to give up and the van would begin to leak which made a mess of the interior. Sounds like that might be the case with the one you've found.

There are lots of examples on the forum of vans which have been rebuilt and restored from an almost dead and gone state, but you need to have the time, skills and money to be able to do it.

Don Ricardo

[manu]

Thanks for the detailed post don. I'm not sure if I'm going to grab it or not looks like a lot of work..
I'll post some photos up when I get home from my rode trip

[Jennison]

I. Found a Carapark 16' last July in a farmers paddock by coincidence!! One problem though.... The paddock is 1.5 million acres at Ettanarra station NT located 600k NE of Alice springs so fuel costs to collect it are a bit prohibitive. Deisel for sale at the station @ $2.30 /litre!!
Very restorable it was too!
Jenno

[DC3Td]

Only 1.5M acres Jennison? Ha,a walk in the park.Gotta be more than just the one caravan you`d think eh. gordon

[Cara]

Hi Manu, I have just posted a few Carapark questions - did you get any idea how much it would cost to get the one you were thinking of buying, on the road?