1970 Dormobile resto

[gninnam]

Well done on the sliding door mechanism

Only 5 years - just an upstart :lol:

 

[Rexer]

Oi, I haven't had a day off in 20 days, before that I was just being lazy.

:lol:

 

[Rexer]

Todays spending includes a roof seal kit (ebay bargain)
Paid for horse shoe plates.

Oh and a couple of rattle cans in L90D for the interior.

Still waiting for my opening front quarters, should be any day now.

More photos coming soon

 

[Rexer]

Todays job was sorting out the cargo floor

Big wire wheel on the drill and some 380 grit paper, then a coat of the red stuff.

Took out the rear heater vents so i could treat underneath them, removed the remaining dormobile rear roof lining (hardboard). Also sanded the interior window area ready for a nice coat of L90D (fooking £18 for 400ml :shock: )

Cant wait for the next payday as its SLAMWERKS TIME

Till then.........

 

[marcher]

 

[toffo24]

Cool bus dude, originally converted down the road from my house!

 

[Rexer]

Thanks guys.

A little paint round the inside of the windows, came out a bit dry but im sure it will polish up

Oh, where did my dash go?

Ah, there you are....

Perfect patina, shame i'm going to paint it....

 

[Doris]

its going to look stunning! Love that colour -can't wait to see that colour against the bumpers/wheels and roof!

 

[Rexer]

its going to look stunning! Love that colour -can't wait to see that colour against the bumpers/wheels and roof!

I had better hurry up and fit them then lol. Bumpers are still a sort of rust colour at the moment haha

 

[Rexer]

Todays efforts consist of ........

Rub down dash front, couldn't help a trial fit of my screen (plenty of dremmel action on the sides)

Rub down and primer the rear corner panels

Dash top is now patina free, shame but doesn't fit in with my plans

Also managed to paint the other window area (pics to follow)

Maybe soon i will be able to open all these boxes of goodies and start bolting them on......

 

[Rexer]

Today its payday AKA SLAMWERKS DAY

 

[Rexer]

Thanks to all the overtime i did last month and Guy at Slamwerks I am now awaiting my king and link beam with drop spindles. Very exited

Also rang Dormobile and ordered the new bellows,skylights and the 300.000 tiny bolts you need to fit everything together haha went for the green and white stripes as originally fitted.

So a shed load more money spent on this old bus

 

[Rexer]

Got these little gems for a bargain price

What ya think?

(arm rest already removed !!!)

 

[Rexer]

More goodies starting to turn up now

Stainless bolt kit

New Dormobile canopy

Cant wait til my rest days so i can get the spanners out again

 

[Doris]

yum yum!

 

[Rexer]

More goodies arrived

Two new skylights

A whole load of stainless fixings and rivets

Big bag of these

I notice that they have sealed rivets so no need to seal them

And a tube of this stuff for when i have fitted the canopy, i'm sure it will get messy

Next photos will be when the Slamwerks stuff arrives, cant wait

 

[Doris]

Your bus reminds me of this early one at Oswestry a couple of years ago.I remember thinking it was nice to see a green one for a change....

 

[Rexer]

Thought that was rikki james's old one til I saw the reg. That van may have sat next to mine at the Dormobile factory back in 1970 when they were converted. Sure is a nice colour even if I do say so myself.

Slamwerks delivery came today, pics to follow

 

[Rexer]

Its arrived

Beam

Arms

Drop spindles

Slamwerks even sent me a free T-Shirt, nice one


Hopefully i will get this all bolted on in a few days (wishful thinking), i just need to get my head around how it all fits together.......

 

[Rexer]

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