How big a caravan 'nerd are *you* ? -;)

[CreatureComforts]

Whilst watching the Bond movie, 'Octopussy', we reached the scene where Roger Moore drives furiously into (what is supposed to be) an East German touring circus being held on a West German USAF base.

I then (for about the 20th time) pointed out to my family that every single circus caravan shown in the film was a UK model - Spite Musketeer, Abi Monza', etc Not a single German van to be seen!

Which means one of three things:

1] It was an exceptionally poor circus, and they couldn't afford to live in Tabbert's and LMC's, or

2] it was a circuse entirely populated by clinically insane performers, who thought that UK vans were better than the local German models, or

3] it wasn't filmed in Germany, at all.....

Is this skillful observation of the use of the 'wrong' caravans by the film's props dept. the ultimate in nerdiness?

My famiily think it is - and I wear the Caravan Nerd crown, unless you can do better

 

[EmmaM]

Well spotted Creature.

Whilst sitting in the Cinema with my father watching a 007 film I think it was the one with Robert Carlisle. The baddies had just blown up a huge gas pipeline. In one of the quieter moments my good old dad says "look at the tree trunks they are all straight, cut with a chainsaw, they have not blown up".

OMG cinema seat swallow me up

Millions spent on the film and we spot the wierdest of things....

Emma

 

[readcaravans]

i must be sad as well then because i noticed that in octopussy on sunday. and to make things worse when travelling on motorways 99 times out of a hundred i can can identify the caravan make and nmodel from about half a mile away from size, colour, windows shapes and positions. and worse still when im at work i can also identify the year without checking the vin number. now i think thats sad or is it just being very keen in my work?

 

[DarrenandManda]

i must be sad as well then because i noticed that in octopussy on sunday. and to make things worse when travelling on motorways 99 times out of a hundred i can can identify the caravan make and nmodel from about half a mile away from size, colour, windows shapes and positions. and worse still when im at work i can also identify the year without checking the vin number. now i think thats sad or is it just being very keen in my work?

Both,lol.

 

[MagsAlan]

Alan is also a strong contender for the 'Crown of Nerdness.' We can be behind or passing a caravan on the road or on site and he'll come out with 'end bathroom, 2 berth.' 'end kitchen' 'fixed bed, side bathroom' etc...and we've only been caravanners for 18 months, heaven help me when he has a few more years under his belt.

Mags

 

[Colinn]

I'm a big contender as far as my eight year old nephew is concerned...

He slunk out of the room last Christmas and slumped in a kitchen chair with a very long face.

What's up, asks Mum, are they talking caravans again?

No worse than that, he said - caravan WHEELS!!!

 

[Nigel196]

I get accused of it all the time . Heartbeat on TV,and similar programmes, are a good bet for me to get strange looks from the family.I'll often comment that 'such and such caravan' is too new for the period they are trying to portray,etc.

 

[Hamer_5041128]

My wife and i must be Gold Plated Nerds.

When travelling we have a competition who is the first to recognise:- Make. Model and year of a caravan. My wife is good at recogniseing the model from the position of the windows.

Also when visiting our dealer or other dealers we look for old coachbuilt caravans.

Sad --yes, but good fun!!!

Can you go on Mastermind--subject-- caravans!!

Hamer