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Old 6 Mar 2014
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Thanks everyone, very helpful indeed. The plan is to rent out the house and maybe move somewhere smaller to speed up the saving process.

Bought a cheap second hand motorhome this winter for holidays this year, so we can get used to the travelling/living in close quarters, before downsizing further to a 4x4.

I've read countless arguments about best vehicle so I purposely didn't want to open that bag of worms!

I will do more research on the buy/sell as you go option, legal requirements and carnets. However, I think you are all talking good sense about spending more time with the vehicle up front, in the UK, get to know it, trust it.

Would you advocate importing a LHD vehicle, from say, Germany? I see there are plenty of Troopies advertised on there from fairly low prices up to eye watering wedges of cash.

Short trips first is very sensible advice. Only problem is that 2 weeks is the max time I could get off work to do one. With that in mind where do you think would be the best destinations to give a vehicle a good trial run?
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You don't say where you are, we live in North East Scotland, and it takes us 2 days to Dover and 2 back, only leaves 10, you need to see how the motor does on hills motorways and A & B roads, for ease of driving also mpg.
So may be Wales lake district or Scotland.
Camp sites and wild camping, see how you get on with wind and rain, and of course the sun.
Then their is tent, roof tent or inside your vehicle, how you are going to cook, their are a lot of ways and a lot of different cookers, gas, petrol, electric. Their is quite a lot to take in, I would suggest one forum to look on is
Free forum : 4x4's, Overland Travel, Off Road, Touring and Camping
I am biased, their are others.
Then do you plan to stay in one place for a day or two, or longer, above about the two weeks, if you are near the port of Dover, we once did what was called a Landy Rally, started in Holland then did 11 countries in 9 days.
see here Home - Teddys
My opinion would be to do some trips in the UK first.

Best of luck on your travels, all you need is a sense of Adventure, and have fun.
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there do seem to be issues with using RHDs in some countries, as highlighted on another post, so importing may be an answer. You could speak to LL landcruisers in Holland.

there is also a guy on

http://www.landcruiserclub.net/forums/forum.php

who sources landcruisers to order

LHD 80s and 70s do show up every so often in the UK, but it's just luck finding a good one.
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