My 1971 Westy
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Heebee_GB
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Padwah said:I'll probably be offering it up on here in few daysradish said:Great looking bus here mate.
What did you do with the old mustard vinyl? I just bought a stool that could do with recovering.
1st dibs on the rock and roll seat cover (base) if you split it.
AlohaFlyer
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I love your bus color. Is that L360 Sea Blue #2? or #1
Which white did you use?
Which white did you use?
Had quite a busy few weekends working on my bus recently, other than the dullness of replacing the seized star adjusters on my rear brakes so that I can get the van through it's MOT I've been sprusing up my interior.
I got hold of an easicool cooler recently which I'm using to replace the westy cool box, so I took apart the old fridge and removed it from the unit before inserting a new back plate to hide the water container and giving the area a quick cote of wood stain:
The fridge removed
The new cooler
All together
Whilst digging out the wood staing I came across a roll of hessian in my dads garage so I decided to recover my door cards:
We also decided to replace the wood headlining, the back and one of the side pieces are orginal but they're both delaminated and the old varnish is flaking off. The piece over the front had been replaced with some hard board and the other side piece was a a random bit of plywood. Unfortunately plywood we bought to replace it all with is a bit too stiff so we've only fitted the front section so far as it was a right pain to fit, plus the grain goes across the van rather than along it.
I got hold of an easicool cooler recently which I'm using to replace the westy cool box, so I took apart the old fridge and removed it from the unit before inserting a new back plate to hide the water container and giving the area a quick cote of wood stain:
The fridge removed
The new cooler
All together
Whilst digging out the wood staing I came across a roll of hessian in my dads garage so I decided to recover my door cards:
We also decided to replace the wood headlining, the back and one of the side pieces are orginal but they're both delaminated and the old varnish is flaking off. The piece over the front had been replaced with some hard board and the other side piece was a a random bit of plywood. Unfortunately plywood we bought to replace it all with is a bit too stiff so we've only fitted the front section so far as it was a right pain to fit, plus the grain goes across the van rather than along it.
68_early_bay
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Looking good nice colour and nice interior
The hessian is a different twist
nice colour and nice interior The hessian is a different twist
Cheers68_early_bay said:Looking good
The hessian is a different twist
The door cards weren't original anyway and had gotten a bit manky so when I found a massive roll of hessian it was a bit of a no brainer. Though I've just remembered that I didn't refit the plastic backing to the door card before I fitted it back to the door. Arse!
justcruzin
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Headliner looks good! I know what your saying with it being a pain. I did manage to find a 5x5 sheet of Birch, which made it so the grain would go the right way!
Your bus is looking good!!
Your bus is looking good!!
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