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Post by kinsa on Jun 28, 2021 20:06:13 GMT 10
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Post by hughdeany on Jun 28, 2021 20:25:13 GMT 10
Hi and welcome Kinsa,
Yes it is a Quest van,very cute and cute vans are always worth doing up!
Cheers
hughdeany
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Post by kinsa on Jun 28, 2021 21:13:00 GMT 10
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Post by hughdeany on Jun 30, 2021 19:01:13 GMT 10
Hi again Kimba,
It’s about a 62-64 model,the fridge and stove should be ok if checked by a gas fitter,sometimes removing the fridge and turning it upside down for 24 hours gets it all going again.
The bondwood sides do not look too bad at all,shouldn’t be that hard for someone to do up.
Hope that helps
Cheers
hughdeany
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Post by kinsa on Jun 30, 2021 22:47:17 GMT 10
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Post by aussieute on Jul 1, 2021 7:49:18 GMT 10
Hi Kurt have a read of some other posts on how to do it the door frame won't be to hard just make sure you treat the are where the rot is to stop it coming back. I think koalas post on his wayfarer has how to fix the ply cheers chris
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 1, 2021 14:25:36 GMT 10
Hi Kinsa, As Hughdeany has indicated, that is one cute little van you have there. As you can see I've used my abilities as a moderator of the forum to enable your photos to display in your post so that people can see them more easily. Hope that's ok? I have been pondering the age of your van and am basically of the same opinion as Hughdeany. If you look at the Quest thread in the Down History Lane section of the forum here, you'll see that that there are several Quests that are very similar to yours in terms of shape and style. One has been dated as being 1961 and has bondwood sides like yours, but the aluminium panelling on the front isn't ribbed. There's another van dated as being 1968 that has ribbed aluminium cladding on the front and rear, and the sides are also ribbed, although the sides are actually fibreglass. Your van is somewhere in between those two because it has ribbed aluminium cladding at the front and rear, but has bondwood sides. As best as we understand it, the ribbed aluminium on the front of your van was introduced in 1963 or 1964 and began to be used by manufacturers such as Viscount for their 1964 models. So I think that makes the earliest date for your van as 1963 or 1964, but it could be a little later depending on how long Quest persisted with bondwood sides. We don't really have an answer for that at this point. You should be fine using the fridge and stove you've got in the van, providing you can get them going. Within the vintage caravan community there is a certain prestige in having original or close to original equipment in your van, so keeping those items rather than replacing them is worthwhile.  Don Ricardo |
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Post by Surf Tragic on Jul 1, 2021 19:54:24 GMT 10
G'day Kinsa Looks like a nice van to restore. I will leave a link to some panel patching I have done, sometimes the whole sheet doesn't need to come off. This is a proven boatbuilding method & doesn't crack on the join so easily. It is a lot of work. The Epoxy glues these days are amazing, some from Botecote are safer to use than others I had to take all the sheets off the latest van I'm restoring as they were all de-laminating & there's no cure for that ! It looks like there may be quite a bit of hidden frame damage on yours, you don't have to take the whole sheet off to have a look, cut out a portion like these photos, replace the rotted timbers, & cut in a patch. I'm only interested in basket cases so I have something to do, most of these are a renovators delight, anyone elses nightmare  ! vintagecaravans.proboards.com/thread/3488/surf-tragics-don-120?page=3 scroll down, it's near the bottom. There's so much on this Don van that looks like yours, rotted door jambs and more ! Go for it, cheers. Surf Tragic. |
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Post by kinsa on Jul 2, 2021 10:43:11 GMT 10
Thank you all that have responded. Interesting to know this caravan is probably around the mid 60’s and a link between the aluminium and fibreglass introduction. Maybe this is the poor mans fibreglass model. I’ve looked at all the links provided and have decided that it makes sense to start by cutting and patching first and if that doesn’t work I can remove the lot. I haven’t used resin before so I’ll practise that but I should be able to router the edges and can weld in any supports needed under the corner of the floor if I need to patch that. I am however currently restoring a 1960’s woodworking combination machine that needs to be completed first. Thanks also for making the photos show in the messages, is there a way I can do that or can I only link? Cheers Kurt.  9BE457C6-7F77-4625-8F49-950B5755A186 by Kurt, on Flickr flic.kr/p/2m8NTnz |
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Post by Don Ricardo on Jul 2, 2021 11:32:54 GMT 10
Hi Kinsa, Maybe you'll use the woodworking machine to help with the restoration of the Quest? Important to have things in the right order in that case. You can make the photos display in your post yourself. Have a look at Steps 6 to 9 in the 'how to' post about posting photos from Flickr here. It's reasonably straight forward from where you're already up to with the photos, but yell out if it doesn't make sense and I can help you. Don Ricardo |
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Post by kinsa on Sept 16, 2021 20:46:28 GMT 10
For those interested I did in fact sell it in the end and have since brought another coronet van. The quest van wasn’t showing any information in SA rego department but SA police did have the number plate recorded as a 1969 quest caravan, however I’m unsure how accurate that is.
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19896EE1-7553-4AC7-BF23-4D3BB6BAAB7B by Kurt, on Flickr
204099F3-04A6-4C94-9F09-CBB5CB923D2F by Kurt, on Flickr
84CA281A-BDA7-47B0-ADCD-371018EB31B5 by Kurt, on Flickr
D4A59C33-EA1C-4344-BD24-E1C4248CCEEB by Kurt, on Flickr
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