71Dormobile
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Spruce ups started with a bit of welding / practice on a couple of beetles, so having slaved on two...
and selling them on before really appreciating them we bought our first camper, a 1971 Dormobile for a fair price from a great chap down in Burgess Hill.
A very honest van although it was a bit rough round the edges....
So work began with a few exploratory holes and then I booked the van in for a bit of welding work to be undertaken.....
A word of advice never under estimate the amount of rot........May have had to remortgage the house if I'd left the van in the workshop beyond the repair on the roof and rear corner !!!
So we took the dormobile home parked her up and started work on the resto the hard way, with help form my mate Jim (a GOD when it comes to classic car restos) in the early days steering me through and letting me loose on some fantastic tools which make life alot easier.....
This kept me going for months mostly last year, was spending weekends evenings hours and hours.......but enjoting it all. Got a lot of inspiration off the forum and kept updated on alfies resto, a great effort on the van and the thread..
and selling them on before really appreciating them we bought our first camper, a 1971 Dormobile for a fair price from a great chap down in Burgess Hill.
A very honest van although it was a bit rough round the edges....
So work began with a few exploratory holes and then I booked the van in for a bit of welding work to be undertaken.....
A word of advice never under estimate the amount of rot........May have had to remortgage the house if I'd left the van in the workshop beyond the repair on the roof and rear corner !!!
So we took the dormobile home parked her up and started work on the resto the hard way, with help form my mate Jim (a GOD when it comes to classic car restos) in the early days steering me through and letting me loose on some fantastic tools which make life alot easier.....
This kept me going for months mostly last year, was spending weekends evenings hours and hours.......but enjoting it all. Got a lot of inspiration off the forum and kept updated on alfies resto, a great effort on the van and the thread..