No engine or interior but I've since sourced both! I'm not sure what to do if I'm honest, I don't have loads of money and I know this will take loads, been quoted 10k by @davidoft already and this guy tonight said the same!!!
Womballs 74 project Daisy resto thread on here is very similar condition to yours, good read for you if you've not already? It might inspire you or put you right off
Yeah, that's pretty bad if your not experienced in this kind of thing. I think I would need more than 10k for the time needed to tackle that properly.
Gonna be a hefty panel bill even if you do the work yourself. From my limited experience of bay panelwork it'd be a challenge but not impossible. I'm following the great advice I've received here and although its still pretty scary cutting big chunks of van out its given me enough confidence to have a go. @zed @optimistic and a few others will be your saviours when you get stuck or start to panic.......if you decide to take the plunge obviously
So as you can see my next alternative is to save any cuts, the seat cuts are very good, and put that cash towards another project
At least looking at where this one has rotted out will give you an idea where to look on the next one!
It cost us £850, it was a present for my 40th and tbh wanted to get him done for sentimental reasons!! I want to try to make my cash back so I can put it towards another more solid van! I have loads of parts I can sell and use that money too
Hi m8 one of my vans was like that it's easily fixable it cost me £ 1500 in panels but I did make some of them as well.like one of the side panles that saves me money and my time is free. took about a year with weekend work to get it to primer so cheap rust free van in the end but as @Flakey says it can be done
I suppose it also depends upon how much will, time and ability you have to do it yourself or cash to pay someone else to do the work/or how much selling all the bits might raise and whether you will get anything much better for the money you raise. It can be done, but ................... it won't be easy.
I guess that would be a real problem as some of that van is structural and needs to be spot on but I can be done as anything can be restored but at what cost time and skill .so with out being cheeky sounds like you need to find a better one and make it your own there worth doing right and enjoying your time with on holiday
Wasn't there a recent poster on here asking for a project under £1000? He said he had time and skill and condition was largely unimportant as he wanted to do the work. Be worth going through the posts to find him, could be two happy people.
If you were considering spending money on having it resto'd you've already proved that would be foolish. £10K welding £3-4k paint and filler work £1k parts & week+ labour to reassemble £?K mechanicals inc engine and gearbox £? wiring £?K interior You're well over £20K. That buys you a very nice bus you can go camping in tomorrow even if you gave what you have to the scrappy to crush.
