Another Athol Hedges Aly Van

THanks David for your assistance. We actually hail from the little farther north of Rocky, Townsville if fact, beatiful one day, even better the next!!!!

Yep, we have adopted Alyvan from a rather elderly couple who had him for over 35 years after acquiring it through their family from an Aunt whose family had the van built in 1955 in order to travel to the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. Ken and June, as a young family had many a family hols in this van, no doubt making use of the internal bathtub on occasion. Their tow vehicle was the round nosed Ford Zephyr and covered ground from the Victoria inland to the steamy Darwin and around the central road when one-lane bitumn was a highway.

We are still summing up the way forward and a budget. Internally, easily salvagible with some elbow grease and new doors, windows and a lick of paint. Underside has the C-Channel A Frame with a slight crease, but it is enough for me to comtemplate redoing from the ground up with a new subrail and A frame. Just needing to work thorugh the QLD DMR issues with this one. Once sorted we would like to essentially return it to it's early condition and appearance with a few mods like A/C, and solar power.
The real attraction to this van is that it has been under cover and the frame, skins and overall structure are quite sound even by modern standards, bare the C-Channel crease.

Hi Rose and Don

What a sweety.
Love the bath under the back bed, if we can we're thinking of doing something similar in our new addition.

Cheers Des and Kel