8pm tonight, George Clarke's Amazing Spaces plan to transform a 60s ambulance into

vwalan said:
in the 60,s and 70,s most of the 80,s . hardly anyone had a toilet in the van . might have a bucket with a lid .
you use pubs or cafe,s or if you saw a toilet you used it . i remember it well ,oh a toilet go now then you wont later on .
you may be amazed its quite easy to manage with out one .
shame it didnt show more of the build .
using box steel or amgle iron for seat frames is quite normal as well. you can get very light but strong steel box with more strength than wood . using steel or ally makes it ok for strong bolting down . as said ideal for seat belting .
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Back in the 50's when we dug through snow to get to outhouse. :) Not for me nowadays, not with bored children crammed in a small space on a wet day. I would need a loo to take my kindle and go and hide in.

Richard
 
Watched it last night. He was cooing over the little cupboards by the back doors but all the space above seemed to be wasted, only used for a couple of twee dishcloth-holder-thingies.

2 people, 4 kids and a dog on a wet day????? Nooooo

Just more people who will do anything to be on the telly.

Liked the egg but I kept wondering. Artist, living in it for a year, does a grant come into play somewhere?
 
love the look and I like the mad molycroft,but wouldn't like to own it or drive it much.
 
it was a ford thames conversion with a cortina engine i first went to maroc . it bust a joint on the propshaft .in maroc they found some secondhand joints but had to weld them onto the shaft . wasnt a nice drive home . but it was an adventure .
 
all vw t2,s are like it ,so is my mitzy . the vw was the safest front over cab van of its class. had wrap round cage and roof frame . disgised as air vents .
the mitzy is ok . mine had a serious hit in portugal a few years ago but repairable . they are stronger than you think . many vehicles with engines out the front arent safer .
but steering these days is one finger . dont need muscles like footballs to drive them .
or as in bedfords arms like a gorilla to reach the gearstick on the buses .
 
My old man had one of those Thames 400's. I do vaguely remember it, went to VW in about 1964. Never got a Ford again. lol.
 
talking of gearsticks-after the porridge -stirring hunt for gears,it was always exciting trying to guess what gear you'd be in when you let the clutch out ! dormobiles in particular had a very interesting gear linkage-they do say that if you took apart and laid all the components of the linkage in a straight line,it'd stretch from luton to slough,and you'd never get it to work again
 
mark61 said:
My old man had one of those Thames 400's. I do vaguely remember it, went to VW in about 1964. Never got a Ford again. lol.
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your dad was smart .ha ha . i never had another ford either .
mind it was a share bus .
 
Ha. You're as bad as me. "That car has no safety features, now excuse me while i get on my 150bhp bench":D
 
I love watching this program,because i like building things and it does fuel my imagination but what that build did was to make me thankful for what i got for 13,000 .A 2007 boxer van and everything that i put inside brand new 6000 for the van 7000 for materials job done,been to spain twice and counting the days for the next trip
 
Nov 7th episode

Watched this weeks episode (7th Nov) and the double decker bus looked great. It weighed 11.5 tons before the conversion so must be a heavy old thing now. I think the owner was planning to park it permanently so mpg doesn't really come into it. That would be a difficult vehicle to use for wild camping though.
 
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