Overseas, there are entire caravan parks dedicated to vintage vans and in Berlin, there is the Hut Palace - a hotel that offers indoor camping in vintage vans. While many are towed across the country, others use them as a backyard retreat or as a creative space. Ms Mora says interest in buying and restoring retro vans has been growing steadily for the past year or more. Less than a year later, the bi-monthly Vintage Caravan Magazine has a circulation of 10,000, with subscribers from the US, Canada and Scandinavia. Vintage vanning has become so popular here and overseas that last year Lisa Mora, a writer who lives on the Sunshine Coast, launched the world's first magazine dedicated to the trend. Ms Young isn't the only one who has fallen in love with vans dating back to the 1930s. It has since become the perfect place to showcase her 1950s crockery and soft furnishings. I just had to have her,'' she says of the van she repainted in ''happy'' hues of whipped cream and butter-yellow. ''Once I saw her, I fell in love with her.
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