The Kontiki Swift is a classic camper-van, and this one has provided us with many happy holidays in Spain and the UK. It is big enough to accomodate all 5 of us in relative comfort, yet still small enough to negotiate country lanes and to park without difficulty. (We have never used campsites, always parking at the side of the road and never experiencing any problems.) With a bigger van you are more conspicuous, you can’t fit into the supermarket car parks, and you have a more expensive time both on the cross-channel ferry and on the roads. Besides using more fuel, big vehicles with double-axles have to pay bigger tolls on the autopistas.
The van is D reg (1986). It is right-hand drive and has a 2L Peugeot petrol engine. It has a British MOT and tax disc (which makes it legal to drive in Europe). The bodywork is sound, and there are no other problems.
There are 3 double berths, including one above the cab. The toilet cubicle is fitted with a sink and shower. There is a gas cooker with three burners, a grill, and a rather inefficient oven. If you are planning to spend the winter in Southern Spain you probably won't need the gas heater - but if you do, you will find that it warms the cabin very quickly. The van also has a fridge, running water, a spacious wardrobe and many other lockers.
The roof of the van is strong, and it is fitted with a good roof-rack. There is plenty of space for all the extras that you may want to carry along. We have even carried a Topper sailing dinghy up there. The bike rack on the back of the van accommodates three bicycles.
The van has seen plenty of use, and so the veneer is a little bit shabby in places and the upholstery is a bit tired. If it were immaculate we would be asking a lot more money! The going rate for an immaculate Kontiki Swift of this design is somewhere in the region of £9,000.
Because we are in a hurry to sell the vehicle we are asking only
This van has always been reliable and we are very fond of it. We are selling it because we are now setting off to travel the world by boat. If there was room on the aft deck for a vehicle we would certainly take it with us!
We would be very happy to give advice about touring Spain and about the gipsy lifestyle.
There are a lot of photos here, so please be patient; they may take quite a bit of time to fly through the ether and arrive on your screen.
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The right-hand side of the van. The little door gives access to the gas locker.
The front of the campervan.
The back of the van. There is a ladder to enable easy access onto the roof.
Left-hand side of the van, showing the roof.
There is even room to sleep on the roof!
Four wheels on our wagon! Here are the front ones...
...and here are the back ones.
Looking into the cab from the passenger side.
The back half of the van. (The side door is just out of the shot on the right.)
Looking from the table towards the back half of the van. The bunk on which the girl is lying extends to make a double bed. This can be closed off from the rest of the van by the full-length curtain.
Detail of the upholstery.
The bathroom is in the back of the van, opposite the bed shown in the previous photographs.
Besides the toilet there is also a sink in the bathroom...
...and above the sink there is a mirrored locker and a shower.
There is a half-length mirror on the door of the wardrobe, just forward of the bathroom.
This photograph shows the table and the back part of the van. The table folds down to make a double bed here.
Looking forwards from the back end of the van, towards the table.
Looking forwards from the table, with the older girl on the double-bunk above the cab.
Looking forwards from the side door, with the girls in the ‘top bunk’.
The girls love their bunk above the cab.
The kitchenette is opposite the table, on the left-hand side of the van.
The cooker, the sink, and the draining-board, with the oven, the fridge, and a locker below.
The stove-top.
There are lockers all around the top part of the van. Their doors open upward on struts.
Detail of the woodwork and a lamp.
There are pull-down blinds on all of the windows in the van, and a curtain pulls right around the windows of the cab.
The windows are also fitted with mosquito screens.
And here we are, on tour, enjoying the great open spaces and the sunshine of southern Spain.