|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 3, 2017 17:06:08 GMT 10
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2017 17:16:40 GMT 10
Hi Shelley,
it's a bondwood Globetrotter that's been covered in silver aluminium at some stage that was then painted white!
Also missing the outer door.I think it's about 1959 or 60.
Hope this helps
hughdeani
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 3, 2017 17:19:21 GMT 10
Thanks, that was easy. I have the outer door. Its just been taken off.
This is going to be a big project!!!@
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 4, 2017 12:04:47 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by shesgotthelook on Jun 4, 2017 12:45:32 GMT 10
Hi Michelle, to get your photo's on here, Left click on the letters IMG. (Located right side of screen) It should say copied. Come back here, right click & paste.
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 4, 2017 14:40:37 GMT 10
 Sorry if doesn't work. I will give up with photos i think |
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 4, 2017 14:47:40 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 12, 2017 15:19:05 GMT 10
Well, ive picked it up. Bigger job than i thought, but will keep me entertained. No markings that i can find. Only v291, which i guess has just been for registration. Had a sneak peak under aluminium. Rotten bondwood, but painted cream. It stinks. Original rotten lino tiles. Will take picture to replace. Other than that excited.
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 14, 2017 11:53:30 GMT 10
Ok. Here is tow bar. I notice the same on some clippers on post   And chasis no. I cant make sense of it. V167. Welded on. I found one reference ti the v on the threads, but not sure. Is it still a globetrotter? What else can i take pictures of to confirm? Cupboards seem original, sink and stove top area isnt. Tin water tank underneath can? Thanks for help. Michelle |
|
|
|
Post by Mustang on Jun 14, 2017 21:26:18 GMT 10
Hit the welding with a circular wire brush attached to a power drill, it may look clearer?
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 17, 2017 7:58:23 GMT 10
Hi Have posted a few times in last week yo get some identification. Most probable is a globetrotter, reclad, but the square front confuses me, as dosevthe chassis no v167. Thought I would keep putting photos here as i start to peel back the layers. Im going searching for traces of the window above the sink this weekend, plus modifying shed, as van is too tall to fit in. Ive had the builder look at it to help rebuild the frame. Fortunately he has vintage van in shed, and thinks he will practise on mine, before he starts his.   |
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 17, 2017 8:19:26 GMT 10
|
|
|
|
Post by shesgotthelook on Jun 17, 2017 9:26:33 GMT 10
For my 10c worth, I don't think it's a GlobeTrotter. I don't know what it is, but more along the lines of Rowvan & Playtime with the sectioned off stove area & the porthole window. Not seen in Globeys. SGTL
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 17, 2017 9:38:35 GMT 10
Ive spent hours comparing photos. I think im coming to conclusion that is a home build? Its has bits from lots of different vans. Started on the quest to find window under 60/70s laminate and the sink is labelled "cararest". Not sure that this is significant, as while rest of interior appears original. Sink area looks to be redone when cladding was put on. Back to it.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 10:20:53 GMT 10
Hi Shellygt,
I would say the front has been smashed at some stage and been repaired cheaply.
Cararest supplied all manner of van parts to builders.Do you mean a fixed window under the laminate over the kitchen? The kitchen looks Globetrotter to me,stove on top of ice chest,sink beside.Is there a cutout above the stove area that angles into the overhead cupboard?
Cheers
hughdeani
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 17, 2017 10:33:30 GMT 10
 Do you mean this? No window behind laminate, just a hole for plumbing i guess. I wondered about it being fixed, as when i saw it was all square.the bubble at top outside is angular inside. |
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2017 15:28:00 GMT 10
Yes,that's the vent I meant.
If there is a round hole behind laminate for a pipe to fit through,Globetrotters had that for the water tank that was flat and sat above the sink.
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 17, 2017 17:21:25 GMT 10
My watertank is now underneath. But there are 2 holes in the cladding above sink, the one i think sounds like the one you mention, and one higher up which i think would have been power. Its not in shed yet, tomorrow, so im nervous to pull too much more off. One cupboard had aug _7. The decade was painted over, and then i desroyed it trying to uncover it. Hell the glue was good in those days, and then its all nailed down for good measure. Definitely been a patch job, stripping at front doesnt match back, actually left doesn't match right either.
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 18, 2017 14:47:38 GMT 10
After remodeling the shed with a chain saw, she is now under cover. To stop myself looking at posts for hours, based off the interiors,scribbles under the draw, people here, who obviously know what they are talking about, im making the call that is a remodelled 10ft 1957 globetrotter, or at least till a better idea comes along.
|
|
|
|
Post by Don Ricardo on Jun 18, 2017 22:12:10 GMT 10
Hi Shellygt,
I think I'm with SGTL - having looked at all the photos, I don't think your van is a Globetrotter. The fittings in the galley don't look like a Globetrotter, and a number of the external features don't really match up with any Globetrotter we've seen in my view either. And then there's the 'V' serial number, which definitely doesn't match the Globetrotter pattern.
I think we are probably looking at some other brand we don't know much about, such as Viking, or...something else...but what, I'm not sure yet!
By the way, would you mind if I merged your two threads about your van? Then the photos will all be collected in the one place which will be helpful when trying to identify it.
Don Ricardo
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 19, 2017 9:42:26 GMT 10
Don
Please go ahead and merge. I wasn't sure how to do it.
Im sure as i remove the layers more will be revealed.
It has these cute lights which look original. Will post a photo later today.
Michelle
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 19, 2017 11:44:00 GMT 10
These are the lights in berwwn the cupboard doors above the galley. I dont think they have worked for awhile as modern globes have been inserted near them. I think they are orginal and i plan to get them to work eventually. The van has a real nautical theme i think.  |
|
|
|
Post by thegeneral on Jun 19, 2017 12:29:14 GMT 10
l am with Don Ricardo and S G T L. l know little about other V.V's but
There is nothing to suggest this is a Globetrotter. The front is wrong, the back dose not have the signature fantail,
Globetrotters have there own jockey wheel on the right hand side, l have not seen one with a port hole.
Graeme
|
|
|
|
Post by shellygt on Jun 23, 2017 9:29:37 GMT 10
Hi, can somebody point me to discussion on how to take out these windows? I can find how to put pack in. Btw, i think the screws on the cladding are glued as well. I need to go a buy some more powerful tools. There is definitely bondwood on the sides,but i don't think on the ends.  Thanks Michelle |
|
|
|
Post by willies on Jun 23, 2017 11:35:56 GMT 10
They are just fixed panels held in with a rubber seal? Didn't have any problem with taking ours out. Rubbers had dried and shrunk and I made the mistake of putting my hand on the window when I was moving it by hand. Instant window removal occurred. Yours look to have some paint over the rubber so I would break the paint seal with a knife under the outer edge of the rubber and this should enable you to hopefully push the window in. Obviously you are going for new rubbers so it doesn't matter if the existing ones are damaged in the process. If the windows are Perspex you might want to replace with new and use the old ones as a template. Mark each window so that you know which one is which and which side is on the outside too.
Then the fun starts with the installation.
|
|
