Alex321
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Car and caravan from approximately the same era.
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- Thread starter Richard A Thackeray
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Car and caravan from approximately the same era.
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Sprite Musketeer Circa 1977/78 my parents had one of those!
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Richard A Thackeray
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I’d have thought a lot had similar profiles, could you make out the badge/logo?
EDIT @ 21:20
Found this photograph on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EZNdScm24/?mibextid=wwXIfr
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Alex321
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No, the Sprite Musketeer was very distinctive. We had a similar vintage Sprite Alpine, one of our friends had a Musketeer. There was nothing else in that sort of size had that distinctive step down at the front.
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Those were pretty distinctive too, with that raised central spine. But there were built for over 30 years - 1948 to 1982. SO that is quite a wide possible range.
But yours will have been from between 1974 and 1978/9 from the descriptions here.
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Don't need to see the badge, I'd recognise it anywhere, the Musketeer of that vintage had a blue front panel, with the distinctive dip at the front of the roof, they came in 2 layouts, one with lounge area front & rear, with the loo/kitchen on the middle of the offside, as per that picture, the other had a small dinette on the rear offside, that made a single bed with a bunk above it, with a toilet room on the rear nearside corner, the Alpine had an Orange front panel and came with a dinette each end, or lounge at the back, with a toilet room front nearside corner next to a small dinette, the Musketeer was about 14.5 feet long, the Alpine 12 feet long, the also did a little caravan that was 10 foot long, called the Sprite 400
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DRM
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I'm saying it's post 1980, as it has acrylic windows, that's when they first fitted them
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Richard A Thackeray
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Just on way back from York (in daughters b/fs Defender CSW)
They’ve bought a Sprite?
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Richard A Thackeray
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I will check what it is
This is something along the lines of what they want to do with it
View: https://youtu.be/ns70Llmh7zU?si=TS4IfzVelEI50-4g
Shame about the black and silver number plates, I always think on a post 1972 car they just don’t look right. Most cars from 1968 on had reflective plates.
Alex321
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Having had a look at the link, they state that a double glazed acrylic front window was introduced in 1976, but sides & door were all glass, the photo of @Richard A Thackeray Safari is fully double glazed, it then states, as I remembered, that Safari's got full acrylic double glazing in 1979, which other manufacturers started fitting in 1980, we had an Abbey Gloucester from 1980, that was double glazed, it also ties in with what Polyplastic state on their web page, that UK manufacturers started fitting acrylic double glazing in the very late 1970's, also bear in mind that the new model years of caravans in the UK were introduced in the September of the preceding year, there used to be a huge sales show at the Lawns in Cottingham, as the vast majority of UK production was in Hull, with Cosalt, iirc, in Grimsby, plus it would tie in with the fact that Safari caravans were really expensive, top quality luxury tourers of the time, typically seen behind a new Range Rover.