Recent content by andy67

Hi Mike, I've decided to leave it as is for now. The aluminium is in good nick and along with the wooden strips on the lid it has a real vintage look.

Our "new" Trailer.

I took the rims to Hi-Tech Mag Repairs in Alberton. Quinton and Janine were superb! The got the bore correct - very important as the wheel must fir the hub correctly, otherwise all the weight sits on the bolts. They sprayed the rims white and I bought some beetle hubcap clips from Volkspares in...

Thanks Mike, appreciated.

Finishing up was a suspension refurb kit from Just Kampers. It's changed the drive completely. Some 15" rims from a VW Caddy were purchased and beetle hub cap clips welded on so it could still take the existing hubcaps. Turned out great. Some new Continental AT tyres finished them off nicely.

New roof and interior

We managed to find a superb little business that build small lightweight caravans and the owner kindly undertook to rebuild our pop-top and kit the interior out with some practical camping fittings. We've camped for many years and overlanded extensively through southern Africa with numerous 4X4...

With the new motor in it was time for a new more subtle interior. We chose a light and dark grey combination.

The radiator has twin puller fans on the rear side. We've also installed a coolant sensor cutout switch (the module is mounted on the dash), so should a pipe leak or break, the motor will switch off before any engine damage is done - especially with the radiator being low and underneath the van...

The new radiator.

After a call and a couple of mails to Dormobile in the UK we established that it was definitely not a Dormobile, but rather a homemade pop top with one off hardware and hinges. Searched high and low find replacements, but came up empty handed. We silicone sealed the leaking sunroof and proceeded...

It was time to pay some schoolfees!

To celebrate our 50th birthday (a couple of months apart), my wife and I decided to buy a campervan to rebuild and use for camping weekends away. A "Dormobile" came up on Gumtree and we bought it sight unseen from Cape Town. We're 1400km's away in Johannesburg. The van arrived on a trailer to...

Good Morning , I'm in Johannesburg South Africa and have recently purchased a '71 Bay camper. It's getting a bit of an overhaul on the drive-train at the moment and will post some pics soon. Andy