Our new baby..Sunliner (before resto pics)

[lulu]

Hi Guys

Well Last Weekend Hubby and I finally got ourselves a Sunny!
We are really happy with our purchase. It needs a little bit of work but she's in good nic mostly, especially the vinyl roof. Plus the laminex has the same pattern as Dads bathroom vanity too, which made me smile. Dad laughed when i rang and told him

It has external shutters, wind out windows, an annex & skirt too
Here are some pics, sorry they're a bit dark, couldnt get flash going for some reason. Will show the progress as we go along too. Hopefully starting work on her next week once hubby is feeling better.

Cheers
LuLu & Rohan













;D

[lulu]

Thanks again to Spyder for telling us about the van.

We bought it off Martin who also has another van (Olympic) for sale, which we saw while we were there. See below

vintagecaravans.proboards30.com/index.cgi?board=forsale2&action=display&thread=1179974886

[Don Ricardo]

Congratulations Lulu and Rohan,

Your efforts in searching for the 'right V V' have been rewarded. May you have much fun in carrying out the restoration, and even more pleasure as you spend many happy days in her company exploring the highways and byways of Oz.

We look forward to seeing the posts chronicling her restoration.

Don Ricardo

[lulu]

Thanks so much Don

Its really exciting because weve been wanting to have a project to do together for ages and havent had one since painting pottery in the late 90's ;D

Last night we won some retro 60's curtains off ebay for only $10 So they'll go in the van and matches the colours we had already picked out to do the cupboards. We have agreed on starting with the outside first though, thats the big challenge but one we are ready to tackle so its all good.

[Geoff & Jude]

congratulations lulu and rohan.

apart from using the van, the fun part is doing the resto and fitting it out the way you want it.

will we see you at coledale (weekend after october school hols) for the east coast get together, hope so.

if you're going you'll have to ring jim or norm to book in [phone].

good luck and good fun

geoff 'n jude

[Deleted]

Onya Lulu

Good to hear you are planning a start on your van. In the short time i had to look through your van i realised it will be an easy resortation.... WHAT!!!!! REDDO ACTUALY WAS DEVOURED BY A SUNLINER.
Yep folks ... These things are like a venus fly trap. Ya wonder too close and they open up and swallow ya.
I thought i was a goner but Luckily i remembered the old scene from Moby Dick stories and lit a fire inside it.
This caused it to cough and spit me back out.

Have fun with the resto.. head down , bum up and see ya at coledale in October.... book now to avoid disappointment.

Oh.. bye the way ... i have this really cool little red morris if ya lookin for a great towcar ;D
have located new towbars .. $285. should have it in a week or so

Reddo

[lulu]

geoff 'n jude & rocking robin..opps i mean reddo

G'Day There

Our mission for completion is 1year, this message will self destruct in 5 seconds..hehe
Nah we are giving it one year and aiming to have it finished by Munmorah next year so we can go and meet you all & take the scrambled egg on her first trip. Munmorah will be her maiden voyage ;D
Fingers crossed we can get it done in time

[vintagecaravans]

Hi Great lookign van,
It kinda answered a question for me and posed a new one, I THINK I might have found a Sunny parked away just waiting fo rme to come and rescue it, but it like yours has the two smaller front windows (that made me realise it is a sunny!) but I though they had the perspex corner windows, is there a change over or how can I date the sunny by lookign at them??

Sorry to hijack your thread a little
Matt

[humpty2]

If you can get some pics of your Sunliner up on your own thread I will try to date it for you and give you some other pointers as to dating
Regards Humpty

[globetrotter]

Onya lulu, must be great to find what you wanted. Hope the resto's not too hard on the purse. This will keep you busy for hours. I'm off to usa' & canada on friday for a month and hope to see some yank VVs to foto, will post them when i get back if i can work out how 2 do it . GOOD LUCK. globey.

[lulu]

vc..thanks & goodluck with your sunny
let us know how you go. ours is a 65 and i think the 50's sunny had the curved windows. maybe even very early 60's but im not sure. im new to all this too
humpty will be able to help with all that

hiya humpty


gt..ohhh can i come on your holi too??? sounds so good and i hope youre planning on visiting this place, while in the states...

www.theshadydell.com/about.html

if you are take lots of pics of the streams for us pretty please ;D
yes i hope our resto wont be too hard on the purse too. otherwise we will have to do some extra shifts at work to help pay for it
ENJOY your trip, think of us back here in oz wishing there were streamliners, but grateful for our sunnys!!!

[lulu]

airstream i meant, not a streamliner ;D

[globetrotter]

Fanks 4 the wishes. I won't be going that far sth this trip. Spending most of our time in canada, riding Harleys so yes there is a spare seat goin but you'll have 2 b quick. Goin from roughly from Yellowstone to Alaska down inside passage Van isle and back. CUL8R. ;D

[lulu]

Well yesterday was the first day of restoration. Hubby went to bunnings and bought an orbital sander and he's out there again today sanding the outside. He's discovered there was a nice blue coloured stripe that used to be there. So far he's sanded a big patch that looks a little bit like africa
Its tempting to go and buy another sander so i can start the other side cause im not allowed to do anything inside yet till its all pretty on the outside *huff* Im hanging to do something to it, i dont care what it is..lol Silly man wont hand over the sander..grr.
Hubby said it will probably take him a couple of months on and off to finish sanding it. It will take less than that with my nagging because im not waiting that long for my turn, no way ;D

Will take some pics when africa gets a bit bigger
Cheers

LuLu

[lulu]

PS...Thanks to Spyder & wife (John & Carol) for popping in yesterday too. Was lovely to meet you guys and perve on your sunny as well. Also a big thanks for those anodised cups too.
Hope youre enjoying your trip and will talk soon.

[lulu]

Quick update
Hubby has had his knee op a couple of weeks ago & he's feeling a lot better now thankfully.
So now he's bored of watching movies & annoying me, his plan for tomorrow is starting the sanding again
Before the op he managed to sand most of the large area's of the outside, so he'll finish that in the next couple of days, then will start the smaller areas.
Ive been asking around about upolstery for the sunny and have a couple of good contacts/recommendations. One bloke here is really resonable and does it for a living. He's re-upolstered cars (some classics)normally, but has done a couple of vans including our next door neighbours, so will have a word with him come the time to tackle the inside. Thats the stage Im most excited about, doing the inside. One step at a time, must be patient (give me strength) but we'll get there.

Bye for now
LuLu

[Deleted]

Wotz 'is problem.. The big woos still has one good leg with a perfectly good knee .
just set him up with a tressle and a plank. Can sit on his butt and sand away to his hearts content. Bolt the esky at one end and start him at the other.
That way he has incentive to work hard to get to the pot of gold at the end of the day ;D.

Good to hear . things are happening at Freddoville

Reddo.