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Post by Cruz on Oct 27, 2013 17:03:58 GMT 10
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Post by stephen&Julie on Oct 27, 2013 17:18:43 GMT 10
Woohoo, go Cruz, funny how you try to down size then out of the blue people ring or things change hands from years past and the thrill of the find sets in again.
Cheers Stephen&Julie
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Post by humpyboy on Oct 27, 2013 18:11:09 GMT 10
Just couldn't help yourself could you ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Cruz on Nov 2, 2013 7:12:27 GMT 10
Well the rush is on. These vans have been in place of at least 30 years,I have been chasing them for 6.now the builders start Tuesday. So have to try and get a rescue crew together for tomorrow.
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Post by Daggsey on Nov 2, 2013 8:59:03 GMT 10
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Post by Cruz on Nov 4, 2013 6:02:48 GMT 10
Well what a day. 10 hours, 3 people, but 2 to old vans that may one day hit the road again. I think people should give them away for free when there is so much work in pulling them out. The access was to steep for a trailer, so called another mate with a 4x4 with a winch, cut up the annexe shed, had to fit a draw bar to the small van, ran out of replacement wheels and tyres, we even scrounged one from a rusty chassis onsite. Anyway draged them off the block an onto the trailer in a nearby carpark. Anyway both now at a mates place he ahs 6 ac. The large van is 14ft and has Carapark hitch, it is on of the nicest interiors if have ever seen, yellow laminex splashback, grey laminex doors, red benchtops, bedside tables, this thing is flash.     ![]()
  The small van was behind the big van, with no draw bar   picture codes modified by conti to display pictures |
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Post by Cruz on Nov 4, 2013 7:20:23 GMT 10
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Post by seeshell on Nov 4, 2013 8:31:40 GMT 10
Hi Cruz What interesting finds you picked up, you clever thing! I do agree that the multiple colours of cracked ice laminate in the larger van are pretty special.  Cracked ice laminate was popular from the late 1930s (called then "Mother of Pearl") to the early 1950s, but faded out of popularity when the "boomerangs" and other graphics started up. When you consider the laminate, lino, and other features, it would have to be pretty early wouldn't it? Do you have any information on their age, or is there a bit of detective work to go yet? In one of the photos, there's a pipe coming out near the rear wheel - is that your water inlet? Can't wait to hear more when you get a chance to get home, and sort through your "shopping".  Cheers Seeshell |
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Post by Franklin1 on Nov 4, 2013 10:26:23 GMT 10
G'day Cruz, I wonder if the van with the Carapark coupling is one of the 1958 "Build Your Own Caravans" that were featured in the Practical Householder magazine, using a kit supplied by Carapark? Your van is not exactly identical to the magazine photo, but it's not hard to see the resemblance, and not hard to think the builder might have modified a few things along the way. See Reply #58 in the Carapark History thread [Note: the Carapark link in the DHL index is not currently working, but DonR will be fixing that in due course.] cheers, Al. |
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Post by cruisindoug on Nov 4, 2013 13:15:19 GMT 10
Nice one Cruz the big one looks to have FJ wheels (although a bit hard to tell from the photo) but I guess the axle might have been changed later? Or could be FJ hubcaps on FX wheels which would go back as far as 48 - 52...
Cheers
Doug
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Post by barkpaint on Nov 4, 2013 14:08:45 GMT 10
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 4, 2013 21:36:56 GMT 10
Hi Cruz, A successful day's shopping by the look of it. The Eurobodalla Rescuers undertaking another mercy dash. I agree with Franklin1, in that van number 1 has Carapark origins. I was going to suggest that it is either a Carapark Hunter de Luxe or a Carapark Homemaker. The give away is the dropped floor line on the near side starting on the left hand side of the door and (normally) carrying through to beyond the right hand side of the wheel arch, and presumably mirrored on the off side. On yours, the lower floor line doesn't carry through beyond the wheel arch, but I think from looking at your pics the cladding may be rotted there? The Hunter de Luxe model seems to have been available from around 1948 to 1957/8. All of the Hunter de Luxes as far as I can see, even up to 1957/8, had square cornered wooden windows. Your van has obviously been modified and "patched up" with aluminium(?) sheeting on the walls and the roof, and if it's a Hunter de Luxe it has also had it's original windows replaced with curved cornered (Bosse & Eunson style) windows. In addition, I haven't seen the laminex faced drawers, etc, in a standard Hunter de Luxe. So...in the end that means that I agree with Franklin1, and think that the van is built from a Carapark Homemaker kit. The fact that the windows are Bosse & Eunson style windows suggests to me that the van was built sometime between 1953 and 1957 which is the period they were common. That fits with Seeshell's observation about the dating of the laminex. Don Ricardo |
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Post by Cruz on Nov 5, 2013 6:01:09 GMT 10
Hi,
Thank you all for your input. Keep it coming. I am looking forward to having a good investigation of the van and removing some aluminium sheeting to see what lies beneath. the interior is in excellent condition, but I am sure she will need a new exterior.
Will have to wait a few weeks as I have a bit happening at the moment. Anyway there safe from the wreckers.
Cruz
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Post by Cruz on Nov 14, 2013 6:19:47 GMT 10
Spotted at Yarrawonga on the weekend. Will be great inspiration if I keep the carapark.  Photobucket just ain't what it use to be! Someone save me. i tried to save you but it didn't work - conti
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Post by Don Ricardo on Nov 14, 2013 20:53:34 GMT 10
Wow Cruz, That's a beautiful Carapark Hunter you spotted last weekend. It makes your heart leap when you see something like that doesn't it? I bet you would be happy if your could get your Carapark to look like that, eh? One thing I hadn't noticed about that model Hunter until I saw your photo, is that the front of the van is curved, but the front windows are flat and actually inset into the front wall. Quite a different solution to the problem of combining a curved front wall with flat windows to that taken by say Don or Hawthorn, where the latter basically built a flat window frame on to the curved wall, as seen in this photo of our Don:  Surf Tragic would know how to describe these two different techniques... I've had another good look at the various adverts we have for Carapark Hunter Deluxes we have in DHL, and it appears that the window treatment on the Hunter you saw was the standard treatment. A month or so ago there was a somewhat modified Hunter Deluxe on Ebay which had had its back window enlarged. However, the window was inset into the wall the same as the front windows on the Yarrawonga van, so maybe that's how the back windows were done by Carapark as well. You didn't happen to take a pic of the rear of the Yarrawonga van while you were at it, did you? Don Ricardo |
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Hi Cruz, with that lovely old van, the material covering on the mattress, same as my mum used for cushion covering on a banana lounge.
