Introducing 'Sundown' my Camper project...
I've decided to try to convert an old post-office minibus into a camper because i) campers are cool - fact; ii) I want to learn to surf in Wales (fellow snow / wake boarders - for cost-effective (i.e. free) boarding, surely wave power is the future!!) - look at that, brackets within brackets and we're only in the first paragraph; and iii) campers are cool - fact. I'll be recording my successes and failures here throughout the build, so if that's something you might be interested in then subscribe!
So 'Sundown' is an LDV Pilot (2000) 1.9l diesel minibus that I bought today for the wrong side of a grand, and which safely brought me home from Newcastle with only minor crunching of gears and minimal fluid loss. It's a bit smelly inside and a quick look under the seats reveals why....damp and rotten. Still, they're going pretty much straight in the bin.
First jobs are to strip the whole thing out and have a look at the body work. I'm hoping that welding will not be needed but better to find out now than further down the line when furniture and gas bottles etc start disappearing out of holes at 70mph.
More exciting pictures of a filthy old bus to come (could that ever be exciting? Answers on a postcard).
...enjoying this so far, we're doing exactly the same thing with an ex-Royal Mail LDV Pilot panel van...thanks for sharing!
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