Steve Green says vehicle, bought in Australia in 1998, is on way to totting up million miles
52-year-old Cecil the campervan still helping clear UK coast of plasticWed 17 Apr 2024 15.53 CESTThe owners of VW campervans often become deeply attached to their characterful vehicles, regarding them as companions in adventure, workhorses, part of the family.
The van had already done more than 500,000 miles and was in a sorry state having been used as a shuttle bus between Canberra and Sydney airports. Green said he grew up loving the Herbie films, which told the story of a loveable VW Beetle. “I believe cars can have a spirit of their own. He’s approaching 900,000 miles, which as far as I can find out, is the highest mileage one of these in the world.’’, a Cornish organisation that hauls waste plastic collected from beaches, working alongside a century-old sailing boat called The Annette.
However, he reckons he spends as much time repairing it as driving it. Green said: “You have to be a DIY mechanic to drive one of these – but they are so simple to work on and simple to fix.”
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