FORD DUETTO

Like the Clubman, the Duetto achieved unwavering success in its day from a very loyal audience. Think of it as having a layout like today’s Symbol but being based on a rear-wheel drive Ford Transit, the latter being key for its devotees who chose it over the broadly similar Talbot or Peugeot-based equivalent.

The original Duetto (usually finished in beige with Auto-Sleepers’ traditional painted coachlines), based on the long-wheelbase, secondgeneration Tranny was 5.55m long (quite large in its day), which accounted for the spacious two-berth layout. The later model, on the newer Ford from 2000 onwards, never quite matched the earlier vehicle’s success. We first tested one in January 1995, when it was priced at £24,485 and starred on the cover. We said, “Duetto may not be the first van conversion to offer all the life support systems of a coachbuilt motorhome within the dimensions of a camper. But to date it’s one of the very best.”

You’ll have no trouble finding examples of these big-selling campervans today, at prices between £10k and £25k.