I'm well thanks Barn. Hope you and the lovely Betty are too, and that we can catch up with each other for some more Sourz this year.
Managed to get out and about in the bus quite a bit. Easter egg run with @oxiderenegade Alive and Vdubbin with Hebba, whose roof leaks. Renegade cruise to Holt Park And a few other club cruises and shows And of course TLB springcamp where I arrived and departed in style
glad your still giving it large millz , we want to get up to maybe woodland waters or rutland water at some time hopefully
Always giving it large Barn. You're not by any chance camping around this way the weekend of 13th May? Row and I are having a little camp that weekend near Holt.
no fraid nooowt bizzy munf may as takin ma yodelin in the hillocks of awstria bless er . you two would luv @Keith.H iz field its really chilled n boozy campin in the cotswolds in events
Thanks for starting the resto thread, Millie! Having seen the finished roof at Springcamp last year it's good to see the 'before' and 'during' piccies and I'm looking forward to seeing more piccies as you progress. Hopefully we'll meet up again at one of this year's TLB meets.
She has been working so hard on this his she has become a hermit ....lI have helped loads of course ....untainted two major job....buying pineapple lights and collecting curtain track ..I am helpful like that
Thanks MK! Yep, the roof was certainly in a state before, it was definitely the hardest bit to do. Hope to see you at TLB soiree sometime too.
The pineapple lights and curtain tracks are very important pieces of equipment. I'm glad I entrusted their purchase to you. Still owe you a couple of licks for that.
So had a great summer in it and then I uttered the fateful words about how well it was running, how quick it was, especially without all the heavy wood interior, and what a bargain I'd got. Yep, the engine blew up. Which may or may not have been my fault, oops. But we'll go with it would've happened anyway, right. Decided to go for a Vege 1600 recon. I think it was about £1500. So back to my mate's driveway it went. Got a new clutch as well, as the old one was the wrong one and got heat exchangers and a fireboy fitted. Yay! I've got a new purple engine. Please please don't let me kill this one as well. Couldn't wait to get in it and drive it home. Very carefully obviously. Oh wait, what's that grating noise whenever I use the (new) clutch. Phoned the suppliers to see what they thought and they said hopefully it just needed bedding in. They said if the noise hadn't gone by the time I'd run the engine in, to get back to them. Great, so I had 500 miles to do wondering if the engine needed to come out again. I was soon clocking the miles up including our club Halloween charity cruise to the local children's hospital. It was definitely not a fix that my bus won third prize in the fancy dress competition.
I was planning to take it off the road again end of December. Then some little charmer tried to break into it, outside mine. What a crap thief, they couldn't even get the door open. They just mangled the lock. As I didn't have a key for the passenger side or sliding door I now had to get in and out of the rear hatch. Classy. I thought it'd be safer out at my mum's so took it there the beginning of November, but didn't get the lovely spacious warm gazebo up until middle of December. Now that I'd got the purple on around the rear vents, the orange inside the vents looked too red next to the bluey purple. So with a bit of masking tape hopefully I wouldn't make too much of mess when redoing the proper shade. Next I took off the bumper, engine lid and valance. Ah, yes, you lates can't do that can you. And painted as much of the engine bay I could get to.
