Our new bus

Sleeping accomodation at racing can vary from back of your car, tent or caravan, to a great big motorhome or even a bus. The Grice family have a bus.

We had a couple of standard 52 seater coaches when we first moved up from the caravan but since about 2002 we've had a Volvo B10M High level coach, much like the one in the image. The coach is converted, by dads own good hands, into a motorhome/living area at the front and a car carrier at the back. Mark's car drives onto a ramp which lifts up on hydraulic rams to allow for mine and dads car to fit underneath it. From that point forward, in the living quarters, is bathroom with shower, double bed, bunk beds, kitchen area, 2 sofas and viewing seats. It realy is prefect for the job - no towing, no expensive carpets and upholstery to get mucky, and plenty of room in the luggage lockers for tools and tyres!

A couple of months ago dad bought a new coach (the one in the pic) which is very similar to the current one. It's still a Volvo B10M but its about a foot taller and the upper deck comes all the way to the front, over the drivers compartment allowing for a further 5ft of living space. In our current bus the top deck stops just behind the driver and the drivers area is all open to the bus (if you can imagine that)!

The coach is as it would be on the road and so dad will now start rennovating it.