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Van £900
Sundry tools £272
Sundry oil/grease etc £31
MIG welding stuff £163
Transportation costs £105
Fitting springs into beam £70
Labour £500*
Labour & Respray £2120**
Various postage/packaging £35
Weather cover for van £99
Waxoil under van £80
Shutz Underseal van £100
Windows tinted and replaced £280
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Front and rear wheel bearings £89
Brake system (complete) £285
Adjustable front Beam £395
Brake pipe £8
KYB gas shockers (front) £80
Seat belt harness plates £10
Ball joints (upper and lower) £60
Bump stops (upper and lower) £26
Anti-roll bar fixing kit £14
Clutch cable lever and pin £21
Accelerator cable £4
Torsion arm seals £9
Fuel hose 2 metres £8
Fuel hose clips £3
In-line fuel filter £2
Petrol cap (locking) £10
Petrol flap grommets £2
Petrol tank filler neck rubber £20
Fuel tank t-peice breather £6
Aluminium side step £67
Tailgate seal £59
Engine Lid seal £20
Sliding door seal £23
Cab door seal kit £99
EMPI exhaust £21
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Spoiler £30
2 x Seats £42
Decals and badges £95
Rev counter £42
Voltage meter £25
Oil Temperature gauge £25
Spot lights £40
Aerial £19
Dynamo to alternator
conversion kit £190
2 x Seat harness 3 point £78
2 X Seat lap strap £58
Window seal kit £95
2 x headlight reflector £68
2 x bulb holders £3
2 x headlight to body seal £3
2 x headlight bulb £3
2 x sidelight bulb £1
1 x licence plate bulb £1
2 x rear light unit £29
2 x indicator bulbs £1
2 x stop/tail bulbs £1
2 x Wiper arm and blade £40
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2 x Rear outrigger £20
2 x Rear jacking point £33
2 x Underfloor belly pan £72
2 x Rear corner £48
2 x Inner sill £36
2 xInner centre sill £64
2 x Outer sill £16
3 x B post repair panel £87
2 x Front wheel arch complete £160
2 x Inner rear arch £19
2 x Rear rear arch £18
2 x Rear wheel arch £46
2 x Front jacking point £40
Outer sill and side panel £24
Top hat section above outriggers £17
Rear valance panel £18
Empi gear shifter £22
8-ball gear knob £7
2 x Clear indicator lens £ 18
2 x Door handles and keys £26
2 x Chrome mirrors £36
Engine lid lock £30
2 x Quarterlight frames £75
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Labour* includes: removing existing front beam, re-fitting new front beam, complete installation of new braking system, removing existing engine.
To Les the mobile garage guy.
Labour** includes: all the welding of the new panels (every panel on the van had a new peice), all the welding underneath, the re-spray inside and out, and sundry other jobs.
To Mark of MD Groom & Son Ltd.
The build up......
It was on the 15th February 2007 when we learnt that our offer of £900 for the dub had been accepted. A date that you can always remember what you were doing or who you were with, rather like when Kennedy died I suspect. I had been thinking about having a serious hobby for some time, ever since HMG had taken away our guns following the very sad and regrettable incident at Dunblane. I had been a Practical Pistol Shooter you see up until that point. I had so many happy memories of that sport, but the overriding down side was seeing that fat odious toad, Prescott live on breakfast tv suggesting that it was us lot down in England who had run amuck. No mention of the gross failure of the Scottish Police who had apparently failed to keep professional and diligent checks on firearm holders… and the public bought it. Spin at its best.
Anyway, I tried golf, scuba diving, model helicopter flying, even tried keep fit for a while, but bugger that it’s too much like hard work. Then I struck on the idea of doing a car up. Looked for a while at a kit-car, then thought about a yank car, then realised that after you’ve spent fortunes you sell it and make a huge thumping loss. While being in this rather positive and upbeat frame of mind, I was also trying to organise a trip to Le Mans for the 24 hour race. Hold up lads, buy camper I thought.
Went to see an old heap of a thing, type 25 it was, up North somewhere. Nearly put me off completely, spent over £60 seeing that wreck. Did a few bids on eBay all to no avail as I kept getting out-bid relentlessly on the last few minutes. And have you seen the prices of decent Type 1’s and 2’s? My wife casually mentioned my ever decreasing happy frame of mind at work one day and her friend said that her dad had a camper in their garage. It had not seen daylight for 10 odd years and was, to her knowledge, still there. Her dad had wanted to sell it about a decade ago and were we interested.
Imagine my pleasure at hearing this. So we went round. Saw it, made an offer, and the rest as they say is history.
So that is how I got hold of a rot-invested '73 camper. For your reading delight, I've kept somewhat of a diary of events as you might say. So please read the month-by-month events in the restoration of me bug.
For no other reason that I thought you'd like it, here is a montage of the pictures taken up to the end of 2007 depicting the rise and rise of me bug..... enjoy. Its on YouTube aswell.
Recommendations
These gentlemen and ladies are the people who have helped so far with the renovation of me dub. I have found them all to be of the highest standard and very helpful. They come fully recommended to anyone else stupid enough to be doing what I'm doing. A link to their websites has been provided.
And those without a website but equally, if not more important, are.....
Les (mobile mechanic) on 01621 818 095
Rob (Window Tint & Replace Windows) on 01268 510088
I need a name for the van. If you have any ideas, please send them to:
.......now tell me which picture you looked at the most?
May 2009 keep you safe and happy, God knows we all need that at the moment. Can anyone tell me who I sue in America for not paying their bloody mortages and causing this disaster?
