{"id":45949,"date":"2016-08-23T15:22:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T14:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.influx.co.uk\/?p=45949"},"modified":"2022-06-14T11:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T10:35:37","slug":"vanlife-peugeot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adrianflux.co.uk\/influx\/blog\/vanlife-peugeot\/","title":{"rendered":"Peugeot J7: an unknown star of #vanlife"},"content":{"rendered":"

Peugeot J7? Never heard of it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the\u00a0time of writing we are, as many of you will be, on the road for the Summer.<\/p>\n

And the Basque coast is one of the hotspots of #vanlife. Wagons of every kind are invading the coastline. They are variously stuffed with surfers, non-surfers, ragged Scandinavian families, stern German sporty couples, ramshackle Dutch clans and super cool, shrugging Gallic trusties.<\/p>\n

We are, as any reader of this blog will know, car geeks with an extra penchant for twin cylinder motorcycles and surf wagons. So it was a huge surprise to see a mass-produced van this morning that we had never seen or heard of before.<\/p>\n

\"J7\"<\/a><\/figure>\n

A quick rag through the webs served up a corrugated surprise. This lovely, beautifully proportioned van is the Peugeot J7 and was produced in as many as 350,000 units.<\/p>\n

It was never sold in the UK, but it still shocks me that I’ve never come across one before.<\/p>\n

One of the holy grails of Van Life is to walk the fine balance of dimension and angle. You don’t want something too big to handle – but you want to cram all the practicals in it.<\/p>\n

With its almost perfect box shape and sliding doors, this J7 looks like it could accommodate a full standing six footer and still negotiate tightest of lanes. Job done in the van search department.<\/p>\n

How then, had it slipped our attention?<\/p>\n

We suppose we missed the Peugeot J7 because of the ubiquity of Transits and Transporters \u2013 and the fact that French fancy was most often accommodated by the Citroen H-Van in its corrugated niceness.<\/p>\n

We’re thinking that in the rarity and retro stakes, it would be good to find a cache of clean H7s in storage somewhere.<\/p>\n

Perchance to dream.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\t\t