The sunny weather gets all the camper van enthusiasts dusting and polishing before taking their home on wheels out on the open road. Our T25 Westfalia, registered RUK 737Y from 1982, makes a welcome return in blue and white with its trademark Joker high top roof, just in time for the UK summer. Its round headlights represent the format on vehicles produced between 1980 and 1985. Air-cooled engines were thankfully phased out in mid-1983 in favour of the more efficient water-cooled systems. It used to be freezing cold before that, even with the controls turned up full!
Oxford's 1:76 scale replica ‘Westy’ camper features the Joker logo and silvered coachlines along the sides and also carries the Westfalia lettering across the back of the roof with other printed detail highlighted in black. The interior is brown. In real life, this roomy vehicle enabled families to have reasonably priced holidays when you could literally pack everything in, including the kitchen sink. The T25 incorporated a bit more style and comfort than its original 1960s counterpart. We loved ours to bits!