self build vans ?

Slim said:
I,m self-build to done 5 over the years started with a ford Thames 15cwt in 1968-9 to go to the I.O.M. TT got a BSA A10 road rocket in it as well then a Sherpa, 2 trannys and finally a LDV Convoy.....oh yeh and still going to the I.O.M.
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hiya slim was you in wolverhampton last wknd?
 
has anyone actually got a self-build finished and exactly how they want it? :D

myself am on the 4th internal layout change:rolleyes: might get paintwork finished yet lol. :D
 
n8rbos said:
has anyone actually got a self-build finished and exactly how they want it? :D

myself am on the 4th internal layout change:rolleyes: might get paintwork finished yet lol. :D
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hi we finished our conversion last spring and used it thro'out the summer and winter; it is my husbands 2nd conversion -the first was a rather old mercedes van which he put in windows and used the contents of a flat pack caravan [it rolled over!] The layout was so suited to us that when we sold the van gutted of its contents to a student we bought a peugeot boxer [3yrs old] and put the contents into the van in the same layout with some minor adjustments and its been a great success. we used lots of chalk and cardboard layouts when planning the van and the loo changes places at least 6 times in the planning, eventually he sat me on the loo in its final resting place and chalked an outline of the minimum amount of room I would need to be able to close the door!! Everything else is perfectly as I want it but planning involved measuring to the nth degree of an inch to squeeze everything in. Its all in the planning !
 
OK i own up to not havin a motor home at present but am getting the urge back bad style after looking around here!!...a couple of photos of my second self build
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p60/pajkoi/img159-1.jpg?t=1268519233
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p60/pajkoi/img160.jpg?t=1268519676
Had many happy memories lining out roof and walls...gallons of Evostick and forgetting ventilation!!!:eek:cant believe how 15 yrs has flown buy ...sorry about the photos non digital then lol
Atb Stu!
 
defitzi

not on ur Nell my hymer cost me 3k 16 yrs ago and my "Roo" a bit over the odds at near £5k last year( one is 78 t'other 98
 
cornishgail said:
hi we finished our conversion last spring and used it thro'out the summer and winter; it is my husbands 2nd conversion -the first was a rather old mercedes van which he put in windows and used the contents of a flat pack caravan [it rolled over!] The layout was so suited to us that when we sold the van gutted of its contents to a student we bought a peugeot boxer [3yrs old] and put the contents into the van in the same layout with some minor adjustments and its been a great success. we used lots of chalk and cardboard layouts when planning the van and the loo changes places at least 6 times in the planning, eventually he sat me on the loo in its final resting place and chalked an outline of the minimum amount of room I would need to be able to close the door!! Everything else is perfectly as I want it but planning involved measuring to the nth degree of an inch to squeeze everything in. Its all in the planning !
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whoops!!!!!should have said modification!!!!:D
 
I've done a couple of VWs, a '52 plate LWB High top T4 back in 2004/5 and a '07 plate LWB High top T5 in 2007/8. Both high tops were Reimo replacements for the original standard height roof.

My avatar is the current T5.

Rod
 
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