Post the best photo you took today

[Stivino]

I took this last night at sunset. El Teide is on the left and the dark cloud on the right is the ash cloud from the volcano that has been erupting on La Palma for the last six weeks.

 

[fillyboy]

St Michaels Mount, after the successful invasion of Britain by the Germans, the Nazi foreign minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop was going to live here.

St Michaels Mount

• fillyboy
• 31 Oct 2021

 

[fillyboy]

after the successful invasion of Britain by the Germans, the Nazi foreign minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop was going to live here.

Cheeky blighter was the first to be hung after the Nuremberg trials.

 

[Mottie]

I saw a trio of VW campers parked up today.

 

[crystal ball]

I don't get the fad of paying megabucks for a rattly old camper with zero facilities, when you can get a modern one with central heating, bathroom, kitchen ... for similar money

 

[Ihavenojob]

I don't get the fad of paying megabucks for a rattly old camper with zero facilities, when you can get a modern one with central heating, bathroom, kitchen ... for similar money

PT Barnum summed it up succinctly .
Though if the process is earning someone money, and is recycling things that would otherwise be dumped, then I can see nothing wrong with it (apart from the cost and image).

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

I don't get the fad of paying megabucks for a rattly old camper with zero facilities, when you can get a modern one with central heating, bathroom, kitchen ... for similar money

That applies to any classic car/vehicle doesn't it?

 

[Ihavenojob]

That applies to any classic car/vehicle doesn't it?

Yes, Citroen SM's seem to be flavour of the month.

 

[Brigade77]

That applies to any classic car/vehicle doesn't it?

Those who don't, will never understand.

 

[Mottie]

I don't get the fad of paying megabucks for a rattly old camper with zero facilities, when you can get a modern one with central heating, bathroom, kitchen ... for similar money

Nostalgia.

 

[crystal ball]

Nostalgia for going to the loo on a porta potty & freezing in cold weather, been there done that never going back

 

[Mottie]

Nostalgia for going to the loo on a porta potty & freezing in cold weather, been there done that never going back

As with most 'classic' cars, they are bought/built by those who lusted after them as a teenager but couldn't afford it. Now, grown up with mortgage paid, kids off hand and money to burn they finally get to own it. Generally there's two joys of owning a lusted after classic - the day you buy it and the day you sell it although the VW campers are a bit of an iconic vehicle.

 

[JohnD]

VW combi is a terrible vehicle in a crash.

 

[RandomGrinch]

 

[kingandy2nd]

As with most 'classic' cars, they are bought/built by those who lusted after them as a teenager but couldn't afford it. Now, grown up with mortgage paid, kids off hand and money to burn they finally get to own it. Generally there's two joys of owning a lusted after classic - the day you buy it and the day you sell it although the VW campers are a bit of an iconic vehicle.

Agree with sentence one, although I disagree with the final one. I love mine every time I take it out for a spin…