[LemAirCoolers] Help find Worthing woman's beloved campervan

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To: "David Sparlin" <nilraps@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 07:12:22 -0500
Help find Worthing woman's beloved campervan








Trevor the missing campervan

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"The most upsetting part is that I got this van when I was rough, and it was
rough ? we have both been fixed and recovered together"

Vicki Thomas

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Published Date: 
09 June 2008 

By Nicola McLarnon <mailto:nicola.mclarnon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>  

News editor

WHEN Vicki Thomas was almost killed in a campervan fire in Australia, it did
not put her off the vehicle she had always been fascinated with.

But Worthing woman Vicki's love of campervans turned to misery again this
week because the van she bought after pulling through her accident has been
stolen.

Vicki, of Grand Avenue, was left with 70 per cent burns to her body after
the gas cooker inside the campervan she was travelling around Australia in
burst into flames in 1999. 

The whole van was engulfed in flames while Vicki, who was 24 at the time,
was inside.

Despite being left in intensive care, Vicki made an amazing recovery and
went on to buy another campervan when she returned to England.

Labour of love

Vicki, now 32, has spent the last eight years revamping her split-screen
green and cream 1963 VW campervan, spending £10,000 on it and affectionately
naming it Trevor.

But on Sunday, June 1, just weeks after taking her newly spruced up van on
the road for the first time, it was stolen from right outside her home.

"I'm just devastated," said Vicki. "The most upsetting part is that I got
this van when I was rough, and it was rough ? we have both been fixed and
recovered together."

Vicki said she normally kept her campervan in a garage but had parked it on
the road on, ready to make her way to a roadshow.

Just two hours later, at around 2.15pm, Vicki went back outside to find the
campervan gone.

Heartbreaking discovery

"I just cried," said part-time nurse Vicki. 

"I just cannot believe it has been stolen and that I didn't hear the engine
starting. 

"I think I have been watched and someone knows I bring it out at the
weekends."

Vicki said just two weeks ago she had taken her left-hand drive Italian
campervan to the Run to the Sun VW festival in Newquay.

"Everyone loved it," said Vicki. "I was really proud of it. I had been
driving round like the cat that got the cream."

Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=23228482596>  users can
click here to see the group.

Vicki has contacted police, port authorities and has set up her own Facebook
group on the internet called Trevor is Missing.

She said: "I've been told it will probably get broken down and sold as
spares so I have been watching eBay like a hawk."

Appeal

Anyone with any information about the stolen campervan should call Worthing
police on 0845 6070999.

 

 

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