Cassie the campervan

Discussion in 'Show Us Your Ride' started by davecymru, Jul 24, 2016.

  1. I just checked and i said an initial hello back in Oct 2013 and not a lot since then.... (where's the embarrassed smile? )

    Well it's 3 years and 2 jobs later and the van finally passed the MOT last Friday (the the 22nd) :D

    To say it was hard going would be an understatement and I've fallen in and out of love with it more times than i care to remember.

    I forgot to do a resto thread (sorry, me bad) but now that the majority of work is done i thought I'd throw up a quick thread with a few pics in order to try and document the story so-far

    In the beginning i started with this: [​IMG]

    It's now been 2 years of blood, sweat and tears, including 7 months inside a gazebo while i attempted to repaint her and change all of the window seals, during the winter, hence all of the straps bolting everything to the drive to stop it blowing away!
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    The pop-top and roof lining came off for a complete overhaul as it was cracked, holey and really moldy but it's now all nice and clean and waterproof and I've gone for a cream and alloy look as it's functional and easy for me to fit!
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    The old front seats had a very odd smell to them and weren't best attached to the van so thanks to some good advice gained from lurking on here I replaced them with a set of £50 ex-Range Rover seats and wow what a difference!
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    The Interior was stripped, cleaned, cleaned again, steam cleaned, repainted and then refitted using exterior ply and some more cream fabric and alloy. Now I don't for one min think it's up to the standard of some on here, but it's clean and practical and doesn't look too bad!
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    and now we're just doing the final pre-first-big-trip fettling (i.e. stopping the front wheels rubbing, curing a misfire and re-applying the decoupage around the headlights! <seriously>) and I hope to start getting out and about and then I can address the remaining jobs as we enjoy her! :)

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    Dave
     
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  2. Flakey

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    Looking good :thumbsup:
     

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