Kev946
Well-known member
Hi everyone. Been a member on here for a while and found some fantastic information which has helped me with finding a van and planning my resto so thought I'd better say hello and post a couple of pictures up.
Meet Raymond. He's a USA LHD import which came across from Silverlake, Washington in 2010. Nothing much has been done since then except a rather poor paint job. The nice thing is other than that it's nice and original with all the Westy interior in place, even the stool. It had a lot of money spent on mechanicals in 2006 in the US such as a full engine build so presumably that was when it was re-commissioned. I've checked the M-Plate and he was born on Monday 17th May 1971.
I've decided to have a professional repaint to start with as I can't live with the paint finish. It's booked in for Oct/Nov time as a local resto paintshop. It's staying original Pastel White. I'm also planning on a retrim as the original westy mustard vinyl is very tired and ripped. Suggestions welcome for the retrim, colours and style etc.. I think I will go away from the Mustard as I'm not keen but everything else is staying standard. I figured I can always return the covers to original at any stage. Has anyone seen colth front seats like these before. I assume they were recovered in the US at some stage?
For some reason it won't let me attached pictures, says board attachment quota has been reached. Now realised I need a link so let me load up to Picasa later and put some pictures up. Can't do it from work at the moment.
Meet Raymond. He's a USA LHD import which came across from Silverlake, Washington in 2010. Nothing much has been done since then except a rather poor paint job. The nice thing is other than that it's nice and original with all the Westy interior in place, even the stool. It had a lot of money spent on mechanicals in 2006 in the US such as a full engine build so presumably that was when it was re-commissioned. I've checked the M-Plate and he was born on Monday 17th May 1971.
I've decided to have a professional repaint to start with as I can't live with the paint finish. It's booked in for Oct/Nov time as a local resto paintshop. It's staying original Pastel White. I'm also planning on a retrim as the original westy mustard vinyl is very tired and ripped. Suggestions welcome for the retrim, colours and style etc.. I think I will go away from the Mustard as I'm not keen but everything else is staying standard. I figured I can always return the covers to original at any stage. Has anyone seen colth front seats like these before. I assume they were recovered in the US at some stage?
For some reason it won't let me attached pictures, says board attachment quota has been reached. Now realised I need a link so let me load up to Picasa later and put some pictures up. Can't do it from work at the moment.
