I thought we should write something about our vehicle. We bought an Iveco Turbo Daily from 1992 (best year ever!). It's a loooong van with a fiberglass roof, boxy cabin, and pretty much every corner is well-rusted. The previous owners used it to haul motorcycles that hadn't even dried off after races yet, and they'd even hose them down right next to the van, so... yeah, it looked the part.

The back end was pretty much completely rusted out and it took a lot of work to get it to at least the condition it's in now. It's not the final version yet, but at least it's presentable.
When you buy a vehicle this old and you know you want to travel halfway across Europe (maybe more) AND live in it, it requires a ton of care. At the beginning, you go through everything, inspect every corner, and basically do whatever it takes to keep it from falling apart on the road.
And I'm not even talking about the engine yet. It's good to learn something about your vehicle. You won't just be steering it – you'll be living with it! So you need to understand it and see it as your partner. Every morning you wake up and it wakes up with you, and you just hope that today will be one of those good days when it purrs like clockwork. But there are also days when something keeps rattling and it smokes more than usual and you honestly have no idea what's going on.
Iveco is a buddy. Not a gas guzzler. It's a home on wheels that's been renovated from the ground up, and most of it is a first-time project. At least for us, so along the way we're still figuring out what was too much luxury and isn't actually necessary, and what we're still missing.

P.S.: Our van has the iveco badge on the front with the letter V fallen off. So from a distance it looks like 'I eco'. This gave us an idea to paint a heart in there so it would read 'I love eco'. Pretty trendy, right? :D And it actually aligns with our values... even though after starting the van, when thick smoke rolls out of the exhaust, it probably doesn't look that way...