RHD Dec 72 westfalia continential

I`ve been meaning to post some pics before but never got around to it .
Brief history ..... Bought as a cheap second car in 91 as i was quite heavily into surfing and as i was an apprentice toolmaker at Rover i had a cheap new car which i didn`t want to ruin with wetsuits and the like .

The westy was Brown and white when i bought it for the pricely sum of £1100 (eleven hundred ) recent factory recon engine and 84,000 miles . The interior had been a bit butchered and changed but as i was 17 it was the cool factor .
It needed a rear corner and bottom of the slider to make good which i did plus i resprayed her in green and the over spray is still in the garage 20 years later .....

She was used in this guise till 2008/9 serving me well with trips down to Spain ,devon ,cornwall ,all the early vanfests and the like , but after 20 years use she was showing her age abit and after a bit of tlc . so after the sale of my house freed up some funds i set about semi-resto number 2

She ( I`ve never named it ) now needed new front doors ,arches ,rear valance and for the second time rear corners ,plus a colour change to blue/white . Now still only with 104,000 genuine miles i decided on a usable stock look .
I sourced a complete interior for 300quid , genuine fuch which ment i had to change the brakes , plus the parts i sourced over the last 20 years but never fitted .


resto pics to follow

 

looking good mate

 

so due to not having an open cheque book and 1000`s to spend the second semi resto has been a bit slow what with having two kids ,moving house twice but she i all but done , For a UK westy she is rock solid ,in my 20year ownership she has always been garaged or kept undercover and the previous 4 owners must have looked after her too .

I imported the fuch from texas and were a samba bargain still in og anodised finished but i had to change the brakes as i don`t like adaptors , the rear hubs i completly made from scratch (280£ from CE) and same with the front using 944 calipers but my own caliper brackets ,

Ambulance fans were £80 and a waste of time as you need ear plugswhen they run and the clock was a free ebay genuine early one (bought complete dash for £35 removed clock and resold dah for £35 )

Twin delloroto carbs ,again not just one to fit i made trumpets ,modied all the linkage fitted K&N filters ,28 vents and welded filter bases and machined to suit ,

Rear seat belt brackets were also made by me as well as three of my four overriders along with the rubbers .most of why i made the stuff is because of lack of spare cash ,i`ve made the rear side jaibars (before they were available to buy)










home made

 

Excellent...Good work... But don't tell Rickyrooo that it was originally brown...

 

always had a problem with the fuel gauge so not for the purist but i cut a hole for the sender

 

It was ok brown but needed redoing so i fancied green , its funny over the time i`ve had her i been and done most things and now finally its usable stock




type 4 sump plate oil temp sender





got bored of waiting for the factory recon to fail so decided to rebuild a WO code engine








just fitted a genuine set of rear jailbars which is the best bargain ever 2 sets genuine unused off vzi last week £14 ...(£102 @heritage)

 

current idea is to fit the super super rare westfalia Malaga crumpet toaster to my continential hob

 

Awsome bus M8, I wondered where your name came from lol. 8)

 

looks like you really know your stuff mate , nice ride ... and your repo rubbers are spot on , thanks

 

Nice van. It's good to read a story with a bit of history. I like your home made parts. Top
quality. I recon as you get older and possibly wiser you realise that standard is better. looks better and works better.
I,m sure i read on here " standard never goes out of fashion "

 

top work mate

....lovely bus

any chance you can do a sparate post on the fuel sender hatch over in the mech tech section again - pretty please

 

fab, fab , fab
love the crumpet toaster.

 

8) lovely bus

 

after a lot of work and what i thought was going to be a 5 minute job finally fitted the crumpet toaster ...

 

very nice indeed...and RHD, so surely the perfect westy!

 

front brakes are 944 homemade conversion and this is the start of the rear

 

Very nice, lets see more pics of the rear disc conversion.