My Viscount dual axle caravan

[snoops]

Don't hit it with the gurney! Unless you want it to leak like a sieve afterwards. The high pressure will push past the old sealant and cause leaks.

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Thanks Snoops, I will heed your advice and not run that risk...... nothing beats good old elbow grease, which im sure will well be worth the effort.

I know the price of something is how much someone is prepared to pay, but does anyone know approximately how much this caravan would be valued? [as far as I can gather, its a time warp untampered original]........ just curious that's all.

[ForumMod]

Yep, valuing a van is a very subjective thing. There are two valuations to think about - one is for insurance, and the other is the van's likely market value. The two valuations can differ quite a lot if you want them to. The downside to putting a high value on a van for insurance purposes is that you can get caught with the fineprint in the policy. It may say that if the van is written off, the assessor will determine the actual value of the van just prior to write-off, and that's the figure you get paid, which may not necessarily be the amount you had it insured for. However, if you have an "agreed value" policy, then you get the agreed value.

The market value of a van typical of your Viscount (age and present condition) is not likely to be much more than about $3000. Spend a lot of time and money doing it up, and you'll increase the value, but not by the same amount of time and money you've spent. Expect to get about 50 cents in the dollar back for all the work you do to it, and that's if you do a quality job.

Nobody fixes these old vans up to make a profit, that's for sure!

cheers,
Al.

ps. Did you ever find out what the chassis number was on your van??

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HI Al,

Thanks for your reply.

The insurance issue, I guess is the same with cars, I always go with agreed value, so there are no nasty surprises. I will not be insuring the van as I will only be using it as a fixed site van. It was just a curiosity thing that's all.

My view, judging from vintage cars, is to keep it completely stock, which means besides cleaning it up and tidying, I wont be spending money on it, I will just keep it as an original specimen. My personal view (and many would disagree), is that no matter how much you spend on it, it wont be a new van, so keep it as a time warp.

Good memory about the chassis number, the van is on my fathers friends farm at the moment, I do not really want to bother him, so I have not got that yet, although im keen on knowing it. My tenant is not agreeing to me storing the van in the back of the beach house and splitting the rear yard off, which I was not expecting for this position to happen, so It has left things in limbo at the moment, I do not want the tenant to up and leave. It looks like I need to wait to do this when im in between tenants.

cheers pete