Latest aquasition.....what is it?

[littleblackbird]

Love the louvered windows, the washbasin and actually I like the whole van, lucky you. )

[freeway]

Bit of work to do there mate, but if the quality of your other van's anything to go by I rekon you can handle it!

Will be a very cool van when you finish it!

Andrew

[firefighter]

Oldfart

Part of Your statement

Its about 12 months away from dropped off at the local tip.

But id just like to stick it up those who would say its too far gone to do any thing with.

oldfart
I cannot work out where you are coming from ...........The Van is heading to the tip .......And you wont to sticky it up those who say its to far gone

Nobody said its to far gone ....just hope you are not having a cheap shot at one of the moderators
Geoff ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[Don Ricardo]

Hi Dave,

Ahem...to return to the subject at hand...

The van certainly does have the look of a Furness. As far as I can see from the pics the side profile is very "Furnessy", but it clearly isn't one - no sliding windows or door, no internal SA ceiling, interior fittings quite different, etc. Too many differences I reckon to be even a very heavily modified Furness.

My guess is that it might be one of those quite rare 'home-made-built-in-the-style-of-a-Furness'. Given it's rarity, it makes it very 'receivable' for the collection, especially when it is donated.

The laminex bench tops and cupboard handles probably provide some idea of its age (apart from being 42 years plus!). When did laminex come in? Late 40's, early 50's??

Don Ricardo

[vernon]

Hi Dave,

Dave your new van, how lovely it is. Welcome to the group of us that have the . What features, really unique. Shame about the tap missing l know a couple in QLD which were helped out about this time last year with the same problem. ;D ;D ;D I'm sure you will enjoy every part of the the restoration.

Kel and Des

[Deleted]

Great looking van Dave,
Good luck with the resto.
Cheers
hughdeani

[minicamper]

Hey Dave,

Any freebie is a good freebie! Well, maybe not the one's that make you itch and scratch

My vote is:

The cooker sat on top of the bench. There's a very long splash back for no apparent other reason. Is that a "vent" above, (the underside of the cupboards) it appears to be an opening, or is that just damage?

Perhaps the tap hole has been covered over by some new lino on the bench top at some stage. Having said that, my first can, the Highway, had two tanks, one tapped to the outside at the drawer bar, the other had none.. I never did figure it out...

I've seen references to Electrice before, it's ringing a bell, but I can't recall why....

Cheers
Chris

Cheers
Chris