How to prevent your car or van being cloned.What is car or van cloning? It is when a vehicle is given the identity of another by just putting on copied or stolen number plates. Sadly it’s really easy to steal the identity and the thief gets your vehicles good history,…

Our Council, Torridge District Council, are under investigation because they may have falsified an independent report to down play the impact of a new development on our ground mounted solar arrayThe Local Government Ombudsman are investigating Torridge District Council Planning Department because they lied and mislead the Plans Committee in…

Cool Caravan stickers, Colourful Car decals and Creative Camper van stickers  Hippy Motors is the perfect site for alternative van stickers, allowing customers to set free their creative talents and decorate their vehicles in imaginative ways.  We received a lot of great pictures of in March and sorry if I have…

Hippy Motors customer decals from February 21We get sent a lot of customer pictures so we want to (try) do a blog every month with some of the previous months pictures to help inspire others.Hope you love what others do and we'd love to see what you do with yours.…

The Hippy Motors Convoy, is it on this year?Firstly I want to make it clear that I’m sick to the hind teeth of Covid-19. We are social animals here so we are finding the separation from friends, family and festivals REALLY tough and irritating so the thought of meeting up…

Hippy Motors and the effects of Brexit. The view of one small business.We were really sad when the UK narrowly voted to leave the EU. We love our European neighbours. Angela is the daughter of a Portuguese immigrant, we loved our unrestricted travel around Europe, we love having EU people…

Hippy Motors decals have been on the TV, again.We like to think we are very modest here but sometimes we get a bit excited about our decals. We are very proud of our little business, our product range and, of course, the groovy people that buy from us supporting the…

Update on our fight to keep ourselves a CARBON NEUTRAL household and business.It's not going well. We really thought we were making progress with Torridge District Council (TDC). After maybe two months of arguing with them and pointing out the legal responsibility they had they finally agreed that the solar…

How to make your self-build van conversion look like a campervan for the DVLA to approve?We are getting asked more frequently “the DVLA don't think my self build looks like a campervan, how can I make it look like one?” Decals can help so here is our guide to making…

The council are trying to take away our power.We hope you know that Hippy Motors is carbon neutral; in truth we are carbon negative as we save more carbon than we use and we are very proud of that, but Torridge District Council are looking to take that away in September…