New baby 1970 Westy

Love the colour, looks like my LB flipper blue which was an Australian colour, that looks like a short to do list!!

 

How to buy a good one when you know nowt.
Buy a van.
Realise things need doing.
Start doing them.
Realise unless you replace everything including all the missing and mismatched parts and maybe even if you do it'll aleay be a bit rubbish.
Cut your losses get shot.
Use new found knowledge to buy a good one at a fair price.

Worked for me. I lost a lot of money, 90% of it, on my first bus but was still better off getting rid of it and starting with a good one.

 

Bloody northerners you come down here with ya lard sandwiches, steal all our campers....

 

May be only his bottom half is northern?

 

Could be a bit like the Kenny Everett ranting man with suit at the front and suspenders at the back.

Chinos and Fred Perry at the front, boiler suit and flat cap at the back

Loads a money /bugger all money me

 

Guess what I got

 

Been cleaning the interior so just got windows to do then give the outside a right good clean n polish.

Sometimes it's best to detach yourself from sentiment, take the loss on the chin and find a better bus. Even if your Boyfriend/girlfriend or significant other hates you for being so callous with the first one.

It wasn't a terrible bus I just knew the amount I would need to spend to get it to the standard I wanted would far outweigh what I got this baby for. Moneypenny has quite a few years left in her as she had a totally new interior and mechanically she was spot on with a brilliant engine with no end float. I will miss her most definitely but she has a good home as the couple that bought her were chuffed to bits with her.

 

She looked good 10ft away but had a lot of filler and repair panel on top of repair panel on top of original panel none cut out properly but was solid. You can see all the panel lines filled in and few places were painted by hand. I fitted a fair few sections of the chassis and sills but where do you stop...

Best panels were the front, roof, cab floor and front arches, gets worse and worse as you head to the rear





This was when I was cutting the rot out, you can see layers of panels. Did the repairs trimmed the rust off and used rust converter on rest before waxoyling the inside.