Needs a lot of work....

[Hillbilly]

Spotted in McCrae on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria last week.

I think you'd have to be pretty keen to look at working on this one.....





Thought I'd put it up anyway, it certainly is in rather a sad state .....what sort of van is it...?

Cheers,
Hillbilly ;D ;D ;D

[humpyboy]

Ha! nice looking van you obviously have not seen what I'm looking at attempting ;D vintagecaravans.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=photo&action=display&thread=5394
and you think it needs some work I hope I don't make a fool of myself.

[firefighter]

Hi Hillbilly

What would we be doing in McCrae last week

And no phone call to say ..........HI I am in town

The McCrae van has a couple good features .........rusty iron roof

and the wheel spats with the mouldings or are they vents

what sort of van is it...? my guess ....Home made

f/f ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Hillbilly]

Sorry about that Firefighter, I didn't realise you lived so close...

Hey Humpyboy, thanks for the link, wow.....you have got your work cut out for you......many, many hours in that project.

Good luck with it, its all good fun.......and money.......lots of it..

Cheers,
Hillbilly

[whippy]

Just make sure you keep focussed, I restored "Twiggy" a Globetrotter from this:-



To this in about 3 months :-


Enjoyed every minute, I love working with wood and this was a pleasure.

[humpyboy]

Hey there whippy, they say that the impossible only takes a little longer, I don't feel so bad now having accepted the challenge but I think that 3 months is pushing it a bit far, we will just have to wait and see how I go when I get round to starting.

[whippy]

I had full support from the Mrs and worked on it every chance I could. My advice is to plan the rebuild, have a good look at what you have so there are no surprises and start from one corner. Do not be afraid to ask for help on here, these guys are fantastic and well experience in this type of restoration. Most importantly enjoy the task, celebrate each achievement and you will get there.

If there is anything I can help with feel free to PM me.
Regards,
Glynn

[minicamper]

Tut Tut Hillbilly!
You didn't look at the VV location maps!

If you did, you would have seen that I live half as close again to McCrae as FF does ;D

Hope you enjoyed your visit to my "backyard"
beautiful one day, full of erratic, slow driving tourists the next

Cheers
Chris

P.s I reckon it has a touch of the Rowvan ish looks...