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Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:47 pm
by TheBrownDog
Those of you familiar with my work with know of my penchant for retro camping stuff. Well, this morning, on Gumtree, I saw this.
An original Cabanon Adventure 4 tent. If you know the marque, you know they have been making interesting family tents out of lightweight canvas since before dinosaurs ruled the earth, and that they are good.
I messaged the chap (who turned out to be on the parish council and a decent fella) He says they bought it in 1998, used it once on a three night trip and then put it in the shed. And that was that. He still had the original receipt from 1998 and the brochure it came with.
Stiffy activated.
I got there soon as I could. We unfolded the tent and while the steel poles had a bit of surface rust here and there, the rest is like new.
Mine.
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:11 pm
by benp1
Please we can have pics of it strapped to your bike?
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:19 pm
by RIP
benp1 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 8:11 pm
Please we can have pics of it strapped to your bike?
Nah, nice one Tim. We love your obsessions mate, they're a highlight of This Place.
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:51 pm
by Artie Fufkin
Nice tent and a great steal!
What worries me is, is 1998 now retro or am I officially old?
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 8:47 am
by lune ranger
Artie Fufkin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:51 pm
Nice tent and a great steal!
What worries me is, is 1998 now retro or am I officially old?
That crossed my mind too...
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2021 9:42 am
by 99percentchimp
Stiffy activated.
We're pleased for you too but maybe not to this extent
And yeah - 1998 as retro.....
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 1:18 pm
by TheBrownDog
Artie Fufkin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:51 pm
Nice tent and a great steal!
What worries me is, is 1998 now retro or am I officially old?
No, you're not old but, yeah, it's definitely retro, which is about style, not just age - something styled in a fashion of the recent past. I would not have looked out of place at the 1976 scout jamboree at Moogerah Dam.
You have me thinking though. It could also be
"vintage", though there is lively debate about this, as some believe to be vintage it has to be between 50-100 years old and should only apply to wines and cars. What it definitely is not is
"antique" as, while it is certainly of high quality, it's just not old enough.
We might also consider whether to refer to it as
"old school" or something produced
"back in the day" or being from the
"olden days".
All of this has also got me wondering whether I have too much time on my hands and am allowing myself to be so easily distracted
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 2:09 pm
by ledburner
Artie Fufkin wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:51 pm
Nice tent and a great steal!
What worries me is, is 1998 now retro or am I officially old?
1998 thats
so last century!
Re: Just bought me a retro tent
Posted: Wed Mar 10, 2021 4:35 pm
by ledburner
TheBrownDog wrote: ↑Sun Mar 07, 2021 6:47 pm
Those of you familiar with my work with know of my penchant for retro camping stuff. Well, this morning, on Gumtree, I saw this.
An original Cabanon Adventure 4 tent. If you know the marque, you know they have been making interesting family tents out of lightweight canvas since before dinosaurs ruled the earth, and that they are good.
I messaged the chap (who turned out to be on the parish council and a decent fella) He says they bought it in 1998, used it once on a three night trip and then put it in the shed. And that was that. He still had the original receipt from 1998 and the brochure it came with.
Stiffy activated.
I got there soon as I could. We unfolded the tent and while the steel poles had a bit of surface rust here and there, the rest is like new.
Mine.
We had a six berth tent like that, 3x compartment inner. Is the same size section at the back. It took up most of a volvo 145 estate..Canvas was dark green and sap green sides. The endless summer of 76, draught & lady bird swarms. Only our Tent turned red, the other not affected.
Don't fret or loose sleep
this was a one off.
Ps they bite.
But for all those summers on ghd continent very happy days...
this was a one off.