My Bay window 1973, Orange. ( according to the v5 ) So here it is... I paid £1500 for my van back in 2016 and well you pay for what you get. It looked fairly solid to start with like most things. I live in Leicestershire and i picked it up in north Manchester on the back of a trailer. I brought it off a family of 5 and they each had there own camper vans, this was the daughters but they wanted to sell it to raise funds for her university so thats where i came into my hands. So i've basically had it stripped back to the bare frame and rebuilt it back up from scratch and had 85% of the van solid welded and ive got the last few pieces of it to do. To strip it back it took 3 people and 33 Ltrs of paint stripper. The thing had 7 layers of paint on it From: Orange, red, orange, orange, red, red, grey primer. So far i've had replaced : Whole new inner cargo floor Drivers seat rear repaired Passenger rear repaired All the windows repaired New door skins Driver/passenger doors repaired fully ( Used about 3 old doors to transplant parts ) Sliding door repaired Inner front valence transplanted off a bay pick up Outer valence/bumper new Whole new front panel Front window arches repaired All the jacking points and main central beams repaired Rear near side wheel arch panel Rear driver side wheel arch panel Driver side door step Near side whole wheel arch replacement ( Getting down tomorrow infact ) Driver floor replace Passenger floor replaced Seat sliders replaced Whole new battery tray welded in Near side battery tray as well Rear bumper brackets repaired Rear boot lid repaired Rear air vents sand blasted I'm sure i could go on for longer but that all i can think to the top of my head. As far as I am aware the roof its self is in perfect condition and all the drainage lips look good as well. The only parts left to weld the last 15% is the front wheel arch whole replacement and the top of the boot lid needs replacing then probably jsut a few touch up bits. I look forward to keeping you updated and hopefully if you can spot anything to give me a shout and point me in the right direction Here are some photos
Very similar to mine in condition and after 5 years iv nearly finished the cutting out and welding, didnt have a unit like yours to work in so its under a cover. Where abouts in leicestershire are you i'm in Houghton on the hill?
Im orginally from hinckley but i live with my girlfriend in lutterworth now. Im quite fortunate her farther is mad on his cars so he part owns a garage so its in the perfect place to get worked on!
You'll soon be ready for Techenders at Victoria Farm then...if the Bus isn't ready ..you could walk round
Same roof as mine and lastys but it looks like yours hinges at the side instead of the rear like ours I've seen two others before that are sidehinged
Yeah i went to the just kampers open day last saturday and i was trying to find out what my roof is. They had no idea and had never seen one like it and said its quite rare its almost a devon / moon hybrid. Thats what they suggested anyways
10 hours later and we have the near side wheel arch and step fitted... Reproduction parts were so poor quality hense the reason why it took an age. A lot of hammer hitting and vice bending with more fillet required to make it look normal again. Getting the gap between the door was the hardest thing.
Another day, we took the roof off to find who ever fitted the roof did a bodge job so had to fill 200-300 rivit holes with weld. Likewise we started to repair the rear tail gate.
Fully welded now heres a video of a quick 360 of the vasn https://www.facebook.com/scot.cull/videos/10154779199596053/
It looks good... I'm just about to start restoring my 1976 bay.... Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
