Buying Brummli was the easy bit. Getting him home turned out to be slightly more complicated.

When buying a vehicle privately in Switzerland, the seller sends you the original Fahrzeugausweis, or vehicle registration document. You need that paperwork before you can arrange the registration or temporary day plates required to collect the vehicle.

Normally, no problem.

Except our timing was terrible.

Brummli vs Corsica

The documents were supposed to arrive on Monday and we were leaving for Corsica on Thursday evening.

That gave us just a few days to receive the paperwork, organise the plates, collect Brummli and somehow also get ourselves packed and ready for the trip.

For once, Swiss Post let us down.

The Fahrzeugausweis didn’t arrive.

So while we headed off to Corsica, our newly purchased Sprinter had to stay exactly where he was.

Not exactly how we’d imagined starting the build!

Finally…

When we returned from Corsica, the paperwork was finally sitting in our postbox.

We quickly arranged everything we needed and headed off to collect Brummli.

And there he was.

Thankfully, after buying a van without ever seeing it in person, our first impressions were really good. He was in genuinely great condition and looked every bit as good as we’d hoped.

Then we opened the back doors.

There was certainly plenty of work waiting for us, but that was exactly what we’d bought him for.

The Brummli adventure could finally begin.

The Van
Rob
Written by Rob