Hi all, after being a lurker in this forum for many years and a van owner for nearly 10 years I have been provoked into posting my first post. A bit of background about my van. It’s a 1979 ex-panel van conversion that I purchased in 2008 as a project although it was m.o.t’ed and on the road back then. After SORNing it I stripped it back to a rolling chassis and took it to the local media blasting firm to see the damage. Thankfully the van chassis was in great shape and the panels I need to fix her up we’re readily available. With the panels ordered I started the slow process of ridding the van of rot. Including a very ambitious plan of fitting factory window panels in the rear quarters. Progress was good up until in 2010 I decided to go to university to study, so the project become like so many, packed up and neglected. Every Christmas I would return to my parental home to see the family and turn the pistons in my engine over and promise the van I’d not forgotten about her. In 2013 I landed my dream graduate job in Glasgow and the project got put on hold for even longer. Fast forward to 2017 and having seduced one of the natives of Scotland I found myself engaged, with the knowledge that a dream wedding vehicle is sat at my folk’s place in Suffolk. So it was finally decided with a wedding date set in 2019, 2018 was to be the end of the long neglectful period and serious time and effort would be invested to getting the Van back on the road for 2019. Having accepted that living hundreds of miles away from a project does not help progress, I have scheduled a local restoration firm to finish my ambitions to replace the panels and metalwork and give it a shiny new coat. It’s going over to them in this October in the meantime I have plenty of smaller tasks and parts to buy. I will start a new thread in the resto subject with some pics for your viewing pleasure. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Hi from rainy North Yorkshire! I hope you realise that you need @Terrordales permission to seduce Scottish natives. He's quite touchy about that sort of thing despite the fact that he couldn't live much further from Scotland without the aid of a spaceship.
Hello and Welcome from The Colonial Contingent Nice to see another English person being improved by we Scots.
Hi and welcome from County Durham. Welcome to the club of building a van for the wedding day. Mine’s in September. It comes around quicker than you’d imagine! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Hello and welcome from Sheffield. I’m sure restoring a van to wedding day deadline doesn’t add much stress at all!
