There’s a huge rear-window hatch that lets in lots of light. The interior is light, roomy and spacious, and has excellent headroom thanks to the pop up roof. I liked the simplicity of the two bunk beds that can easily be made up into a double bed when necessary. All the cupboards, hatches and cupboard doors are extremely strong and made of fibreglass. Inside, the Rambler had very much the feeling of a small cruising yacht. There is not an ounce of wood in a Sherpa, which is probably one of the reasons it sells so well in the Cape and KwaZulu- Natal, where the ocean climate takes its toll on caravans.Īll models are equipped with a quality hot-dipped galvanised chassis and, today, all Sherpa caravans are fitted standard with a braking system. The same goes for all the cupboards and storage space inside the caravan. The whole Sherpa is made of fibreglass, so it’s impervious to wood rot. Setting up the caravan took only five minutes, so it wasn’t long after my arrival that I was sitting outside my ride drinking coffee, and watching a fisherman catch a 2.5kg brown trout literally outside my window. I had hitched the caravan to a Hyundai H1, and found it easy and hassle-free to tow. I camped with the Rambler for two days, literally on the reed-fringed edge of a dam in the Diamante Caravan Park, just east of Pretoria. It has a pop-up roof, so that once it’s set up, you have standing room from the front to the back. The new Rambler is a lot heavier than the Tiny, and is a much larger and more spacious gravel-roader caravan. In fact he named the latest Sherpa after his Dad’s wonderful old Rambler car that he’d used to tow the family caravan for many years. It was fascinating talking to Neville: someone who has been caravanning all his life. And I laughed when he added, ‘I towed it with a Cortina XLE – the old 3-litre with a vinyl roof!’Īnd I laughed when he added, ‘I towed it with a Cortina XLE – the old 3-litre with a vinyl roof!’ I was the youngest oke to buy a caravan from a place called Sunseekers… I was only 19 years old.’ During a tour of the Sherpa factory, he told me, ‘I have been caravanning since the day I was born. Neville grew up with caravanning in his blood.
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Easily manoeuvrable, and able to be towed without an EB license by any car on the road, the interesting little van quickly had a big following. Neville and his team initially started out with the Sherpa Tiny, weighing in at only 560kg, and followed it with the Tiny Rough Roader that was only 20 kilograms heavier.īoth variants of the Tiny proved very popular. The Sherpa range, with its motto of “carrying loads lightly”, is the dream child of Neville de Meillon. The manufacturers of the Sherpa range of small, tough, fibreglass caravans launched their Rambler model late last year.
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