My 1970 dormy work in progress

[chilledhippie]

I have been thinking about writing about my van for a while now and decided that this is the place to do it I have owned the van for 6 months and bourght it for £700 from Ebay without seeing it :shock: .

From the pictures it doesn't look to bad however once i picked it up and took it to a resotorer there was some issues...

nearside corner

front panel

Front nearside and terrible sliding door

Rear nearside

just next to offside rear wheel

after this nothing realy happened for many months mainly cause only being 16 i had no money also the restorer was busy.

However in January of this year it was booked into a new restorer for one reason or another and work began. Firstly the front beam was nearas sh*t and fell off the body as well as underside needing holes welded up.

half way through

new panels and rear corner

rear shot no bumpers

however at this point it was supposedly discovered that the engine was a 1300 not 1600 however this was not the case i had the wool pulled over my eyes one of the problems of being 16 i suppose however i do now have a 1600 twinport .

these are the only some of the pictures and i will develop some more and put them up of the work. enjoy

 

[chilledhippie]

Well i have got the pictures from the work that was done before the restoration before i got my hands on it the list of work done is as long as my arm however the restorer didnt give it to me :shock: so ill keep following it up .......

Then i finally got it back and started my own work to fix the problems they didin't do and continue the work
It envolved light body work and general clean up as it hasn't been washed in 2 years by the looks of it :lol: Using the help of my assistant/smarter working partner i set about more work :lol:

Also i borrowed myself a new toy and its yellow

First i took of the bumper to find that shock horror more rust :shock:

then i set about it with the grinder and rust proofed then fibre gassed it up

then i set out to cure the lovely hole in the roof and again played with the grinder Ridding all the rust and fibreglassed it up....

after waterproofing the back i set about the unsightly new front arches with a piece of sandpaper, some elbow greese and a can of primer.

Then i ran down to halfords and tried to get a L90D paint code unfortunetley over time and inexperinced mixers meant the colour was slightly too green compared to the rest of the van. :shock:

That is it so far i will add more over the next few days as i work my way through more bits.

 

[71Dormobile]

Looks like mine did and a lot of other dormobiles roof and rear corner had died a death keep the pics and progress coming :wink: ....