New, stitched up, and starting again

Hello, I'm new here and pretty new to campers.
I bought my '76 (Barnabay) a couple of years ago, first ever camper van, second vehicle I've ever driven!

Not knowing very much at all, the whole resto was meant to be done by the garage I bought it from - with me making the decisions on paint colours and learning as I went along. Sadly it was more cowboys play campers than experienced dub lovers

So I've stripped out the interior and floor etc and am starting again. I'm still rubbing down the surface rust at the moment so I'm sure they'll be loads of questions to come.

I'm really keen to do what I can myself and learn as much as possible. So far I'm pretty good at holding a torch and making tea - if anyone local needs and extra pair of hands in exchange for teaching me the basics

 

hello, welcome to the forum.

 

I'm on hayling and am happy to drink tea and have a torch holder in return for watching me cut my hands on sharp bits of old vw's and swearing

 

Good evening and welcome from The Cotswold Contingent.

 

hi sorry to hear you got stitched , as with most stuff at least if you do it yourself your know what youve done . their lots of nice peeps on here who will give advice for free n offer help if poss.Good luck . Any more pics of the bus welcome too.

 

Thanks @Barneyrubble. That's what I thought, at least i'll know it's all okay now. Electrics were a bit dodgy so though best so sort it before anything bad happened!

 

@davidoft haha that sounds about right. I did manage to put a new exhaust on with the help of my dad and OH. Lots of swearing and bleeding knuckles involved though!

 

Thanks everyone. Pics coming soon. Once I've worked out how to upload them

 

Here are a couple of pics!
Twin sliding doors
I've stripped out the little side units and carpet/polystyrene. Just working on sanding/scraping the little rusty patches. Have been putting red oxide primer on the bits I've done. Will be going over it all with white paint at some point.

 

Hello & Welcome from The Colonial Contingent

 

@Moons made me do it.

 

Welcome along

 

Ummmmmm!
@bernjb56 look what Don did!

 

Welcome aboard!

 

Looks like a pretty good van from those pics, where's it from, looks like one I may have seen about

 

Welcome from The Worcestershire contingent - twin slider lovely bus, when your p****d (like me now) you can just fall through it!!

 

Good evening from Cheshire