Ret my 1972 Dormobile project

[gninnam]

Luv the curtain material 8)

 

[retro]

hoping there should be enough to make awning curtains too.
got 11 metres for about £22 on ebay 8) hopefully its going to save me a fortune, to send elsewhere :mrgreen:

 

[harry_p]

As the person responsible for the welding, I need to wheel out the excuse book and say that gusty wind and mig welding out doors don't mix very well!

It's not very pretty, but seems solid and will be ground back anyway.

Can we have some warm, dry, still days that aren't baking hot please :lol:

 

[kevinhall]

cheers 8) i was worried the mid grey would look wrong, but it does blend with the wood effect well.

got it off ebay, this seller

http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/salesfromsarah/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

or their website is
http://www.rainbowconversions.co.uk" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Thanks for that I think it looks great. Nice to see another dormie being saved

 

[retro]

As the person responsible for the welding, I need to wheel out the excuse book and say that gusty wind and mig welding out doors don't mix very well!

It's not very pretty, but seems solid and will be ground back anyway.

Can we have some warm, dry, still days that aren't baking hot please :lol:

shut it you perfectionist, its not as rough as my rattle caning :mrgreen:

cheers kevin, 8)

 

[retro]

give harry his dues, he`s been working like a trooper on the bus for the past few weeks 8)
and after seenig the prices some rotters go for at vanfest, he`s admitted he`s being abit of a perfectionist :shock: good when you want a spotless bus and one hopefully that wont need stripping and sanding every year .
bad when you want it up and running like now (patience isnt my good point )

anyways a few more pics of whats been going on

pin head, playing with the dent puller, chuffed with how its come out

during the tidy up, getting shot of the rust, got new backingplates for the brakes to go on, and the tidy up will continue underneath

getting here, looking spangley 8)

purchased some replacement handles for the interior, not a bad match, slightly bigger, another job to the list :mrgreen:

hoping to make the concrete hard stand next week, and when its set can push ret on it and put him under a tent, make working on him easier

 

[gninnam]

Coming along (quicker then mine :shock: )

 

[retro]

i wish. :shock: i need to stop renovating my house and get out side more, give my bert a hand lol

 

[retro]

Harry`s been having quiet a productive week off work so far :mrgreen: renovating a house aswell as a bus is tricky, and Ret has deffinatly been coming second to the walls of my lounge being skimmed. but Harry took this week off to finally give Ret the light of day.
i had a "bus stop" towards the end of last year, after having a hole in the garden for 9 years :shock: nearly burried myself finding out abit of ready mix would cost £500
managed to tow Ret onto his bus stop with the beemer and abit of rope, my 12 year old being ready with a block of wood (seens my neighbours were out)
so he now got pride of place

then came the bus shelter, ive got some big metal posts to go up to make a proper car port, but its another job to the list, so for a temp measure i purchased this last year off a friend of a friend, who had renovated a car under it

so the clean up begins again

gear box came out and got a tidy up

then having never done anything to so with bodywork before in my life, except rattle caning a layer of primer on the bear metal when i got Ret to stop his bear metal rusting. i had a go at rubbing down the bumper...geeze them hippies sure liked sealer :shock:

getting there

old belly pans are coming off today

 

[gninnam]

Hard standing is looking good dude 8)

Belly pans off tomorrow so fingers crossed for your

 

[retro]

it has made it easier for the fella to work under.
well the belly pans are off, not toooooo bad, abit of patching up needed, but would be worse i guess 8)

roof needs abit more patching up than thought though :roll:

including resident earwigs :shock:

 

[retro]

today harry did a cracking job on repairing the step part of the bumper.

 

[Doris]

neat work

 

[retro]

like with anything, takes his time, but always does a perfect job :mrgreen:

 

[retro]

Harry has had a few weeks off to sort ret some more,seens got a few metal parts from vanfest 8) although last week was spend rebuilding the back end of his bmw and not ret as planned :roll:
so heres some more rust and repair pics for you to have a look at
sills coming off

main chasis rail repair

more bits of rot

then we found more dodgy repairs under the dormy unit and on the wheel arch its like picking a scab, gotta be done, but could howl that you do it :lol:

popped the headlights in and the front bumper on, to stop the pikeys asking for scrap :x

 

[soviet1942]

e30 and e36 m3! I like! The e36 have itb? US versions didn't get them :evil:

 

[luxuryluke]

All that rust removal and repair is more than I can handle.
Nice job on it, though. Awesome project.

 

[retro]

e30 and e36 m3! I like! The e36 have itb? US versions didn't get them :evil:

yep it does,

they are my boyfriends cars, theres a lancia integrale behind the camper on jacks, being split

and 2 metros hidden up one with this in

All that rust removal and repair is more than I can handle.
Nice job on it, though. Awesome project.

more than what we have been expecting too :| but would rather it completed and properly, rather than bodging it back together and keep having to do different repair. wish had a garage, as its fairly limited on weather to what gets done....its 2.5 years til my 40th birthday, im expecting it to be my birthday present, by then if not sooner :lol:

 

[soviet1942]

I am envious of the cars he has :shock: :mrgreen:

 

[retro]

wow nearly a week of reasonable weather :shock: and harry had more annual leave so he set off to work on Ret, first time in a long time :msn4:
so he cut away more bodge job repairs by previous owner :roll: and discovered missing structural bits of post

the cat flap harry cut out last year (cat loved sleeping in camper over winter,when we couldnt get her in at night )

the welding begins...again!

cat flap gone..cat isnt happy lol

and whilst he was there he cleaned up 40 years of grot

slow progress is better than no progress :mrgreen: