New Bus - 79 Microbus - Jaffa Cake !!

First pics of my new Bus after collecting and stripping out the seats and panels.



The black hole...









My better half took a little persuding that the colour was okay!!

The orange is just a blow over but once flatted down it will be fine and I like the Vanagon wheel trims, they take the edge off it a bit (I think).

Next few days total clean inside and start putting in insulation ready for a build over the coming months. It will go down a few inches, chrome bumpers, re-cover all the cards etc, then we need to chose whether we have afull width or 3/4 bed.

Will update as I go along
Cheers
B

 

cool 8) love the front seats

I'd probably do the bumpers brown as well kinda blend it all together a little more...just my opinion, overall it looks sound O0

 

thats super duper

 

Super super. Are you going up keep it those colours?? Not many like that sadly. I like it though.

 

Cheers guys - yep the colour is staying !!

 

this is what happens when a champagne and a jaffa mate lol i love it

 

Loving the orange!

 

Very nice, I like the colours, keep the pics Coming

 

It can't be 4 degrees out there and have spent 2 hours flatting back the roof with wet and dry! The guy or gal who blew the Jaffa over this knew how to make orange peel!!

Can't do any more, I can't feel my fingers so back to the garage to start on the Vanagon wheel trims!
B

 

Very nice... 8)...looking forward to seeing progress and the new interior build..what layout are you going for?

 

Love it!!

 

I'd started so I had to finish....flatting down the roof!
Had to take te tops off the orange peel - looks fairly good (going by the 10ft rule!!) Panels will need more time but pleased with this.

 

Cool buc m8

 

Done a bit of cleaning of the engine bay and starting to flat the Jaffa panels. Pic of the steel Vanagon wheel trims, coming up well but the black pinstripes are coming off if I do too much, so just a clean and may then put a clear coat on them.



Garage getting fuller !! Half of it after stripping the interior half parts waiting to go in !!

 

great colour combo.

 

nice lovin the brown

 

Purchased bed from (Rusty) Lee on ebf and fitted in 10 mins!



..and still replacing seals, the hatch no longer rattles and sounds like the glass will shatter!




Have a list of bits needed at Telford tomorrow!

May have to slow down a bit however as found out I have a blood clot in leg so off to Hospital Monday, after injecting myself with blood thinners all weekend - really an interesting thing to have to do if never done it before.

Mind you I may have a bit of time on my hands to plan the interior!