Tee hee; some Transporter owners get a bit funny about Cali owners; sometimes with good reason...@Polzeylad just looked at this on Facebook I like your comment you put on there m8
(If I bring our T6 California down (we live in Polzeath) will everyone hate me?
Why can't everyone just get on! We could all be dead shortly after the 20th of the month when Trump launches his nukes using twitter.
You always get rivalries and TBH @Polzeylad is right they are like that. I've seen them at the caravan site I use even look down their nose at you there. Thing one of the worst rivalries I knew of was the Mini on. I used to moderate on the British Mini Club Forum till it folded (old farts running the club did not think it was good for the image). When the new Mini was coming out people were looking forward to what Rover was going to bring out then Ban BMW bought out Rover and took over the Mini name then brought out the New MINI. The classic owners as we became known hated them and there was all sorts of slanging matches going on (Partly why the forum closed) . Could not say what it's like now as I've been out of the Mini thing for years now but I did notice straight away when I signed up with the Cali forum most of them were stuck up . I thing what did it for me was one Woman f them saying when you by a California you buying into a Life stile (apologies to the lady's here) just made me thing I did not want to be part of them as I'm more down to earth.
when you purchase a VW Transporter - your lifestyle and nobody else's 
Nope there are a few good 'uns about - we met a really nice German Cali couple a while back in France and I've met several others (good mates are about to buy one too - she's David Attenborough's doctor on most of his jaunts!) but I've also met a few really odd owners most of who are on that forum. It's a shame but I guess Calis are expensive to buy and just like BMWs (we have one of those too), that will always attract some who buy them for image over sense.I'm on another California forum, but joined here to hear about other T6s and what ideas/solutions people have.
Not all California owners are stuck-up, at least I hope I'm not. I'm not a modder or even a tinkerer, but I do like a well turned out set of wheels.
There are Nigel Know-it-alls in all walks of life, trouble is it only takes one or two of them to spoil it for the masses.
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. If they choose to forget that fact then forget them, they are not worthy . Equally, that tatty looking old camper could be someone's "barn find" that is being lovingly restored and enjoyed during the process. Moral of my rant 
- some people are good 'uns, some are pretentious gits, but you won't know who is which until you meet them
@Teejay1
Years ago my wife& I were looking at A Cali in Ridgeway Reading, the roof was down so I asked the salesman how it lifted. When he tried the battery was flat so off he went to get another. He managed to life the roof for us after some messing about in the end and we had a look round the van. While we were there I noticed a Family with teenage kids swanning around the dealership with a coffee in one hand like they owned the place (god knows what they were getting) when the guy spots the van has the roof up and comes over for a nosy while we were looking at it, next thing I hear (plum in mouth for this) “O” it’s a Camper do come over and look at this dearie, with that the cretins who were with him were all over the thing did not matter we were thinking of buying it so it was a case of F*ck you and we left with the salesman stood there. Got a great deal on one at Listers a week or so later. I felt that was the calibre of people you got with a lot Cali’s as well. Not everyone is like it but you get a few and like you said they spoil it for others. We will see what it’s like when I get mine but no doubt they will look down their nose at me.
No looking down our noses at @Roadrunner, or anyone else for that matter. We are all created equal, some have more money and others may have to work harder than others to get what they've got, but the the one thing all Cali, Kombi, Caravelle and Panel Van owners have in common is that they are all driving VW Transporters
