Citroen Dyane 4/6

New Acadianes (Dyane-based vans) were imported by a Citroen dealer in Hampshire and converted to camping cars. This involved fitting a rising roof, welding the rear doors together down the shut and hinging them along the bottom so that, with a canvas cover it provides the needed extension for sleeping, moving the side-mounted petrol tank and fitting a door in its place on the offside and, of course fitting out the interior.  It has a two-burner cooker, a small sink, lots of storage space and (added shortly after conversion) a mains hook-up. As designed, it slept two adults and two children on pipe cots in the elevating roof.  That must have been a tight fit, but it's excellent for one and OK for two.  A side awning came with the vehicle, which is nearly big enough to park the van in! It is thought that six Nomads were produced. I have the brochure which was produced and which shows my Nomad. One other still exists - a converted LHD Dyane car.  Mine was a new Acadiane and was converted by the dealers to RHD.  It has had only two owners before me; an elderly man in the Isle of Wight, who owned it from 1982 to 1999, a family also in the Isle of Wight, who owned it briefly in 1999, and myself since 1999.  It has done only about 80,000km from new and has never been restored.