Still pissed off about Matt Keene's van!

[the councillor]

buy the westy roof get that cut in then the worlds your lobster....

won't somebody think of the M codes :x

M665 westy roof retrospectively fitted by tim glover

*possibilities, no ?*

 

[Araon]

Ahhh but the M codes dont bother him..... :wink: nor me for that matter, neither would I chop a hole in the roof but then I'm not on the hunt for a worn, slammed, big engined bus, that needs to sleep 4.... personally I'd stick with a microbus and lug tents/awnings, fit z hinges cab hammock etc (hey if I didnt know better it sounds like mine :lol: )....

Just offering options to look at..... like scott was selling a good solid deluxe shell 72 good money make a deal with the westy roof have it cut in and your on your away, shunt it into the workshop for the beam work, engine etc..... alas that bus is pending so i see on his site.....

 

[pete nice]

If I had limited knowledge I would buy as good as I could find, (In fact, that's what the people with good knowledge do anyway). Any work can be expensive to have done.

Big engines are big money!

 

[Clem]

my next door neighbour had a lovely patinated BX, simply because he's a maverick quasi-anarchic (what ?) genius who's got better things to do than wash his car. used to sit there and look well smart, indeed he'd be the kind of guy who'd suit one of the more extreme examples of *patina* that's come into the country in the last few years, but as he so rightly pointed out to me... cars like that 'evolve' and they have to 'evolve' with their owners to be anything like genuine don't they ? having one imported for you, and turning up to a show in one wearing your brand new hoodride top and matching trucker cap, but then going home, having a shave and driving to work in your company laguna spoils the illusion a bit

*power to the people*

See it was all so good up until that point .... the point where he acknowledges what hes got, and judges others as not being 'genuine' .... thats the point at which he becomes a massive fake. Its contrived.

Fashion aside, anyone else just saw the 'trend' of worn original vans and just thought (as well as how cool they are!) 'that'd be much easier to live with for actually using than a shiney one'??

My last van was a repaired, repainted van. Not 'that' good to be fair, but enough repaired effort in it for me to fuss over it like a mother hen. Introduce a haphazard child into the mix and it was a headache .... now its just a headache to protect the og seat covers, curtains and fittings!! :lol: Nowt 'really' changes! :roll:

 

[faux]

My last van was a repaired, repainted van. Not 'that' good to be fair, but enough repaired effort in it for me to fuss over it like a mother hen. Introduce a haphazard child into the mix and it was a headache .... now its just a headache to protect the og seat covers, curtains and fittings!! :lol: Nowt 'really' changes! :roll:

I'm with you on this, nice paint is great and gives me an excuse to go out and polish but it does make you worry a little, when your 3 year old rides his bike past it.... 8)

Now I love the fact that my boy can enjoy it as much as me.....but why do kids stick their fingers in the small holes and make them bigger :twisted:

 

[froggy]

but why do kids stick their fingers in the small holes and make them bigger :twisted:

Are we still talking about Vans? :wink: :wink:

 

[the councillor]

See it was all so good up until that point .... the point where he acknowledges what hes got, and judges others as not being 'genuine' .... thats the point at which he becomes a massive fake. Its contrived.

no no no... you misunderstand (obviously on purpose :wink: ) he doesn't acknowledge having anything, because he hasn't got anything... nothing of worth anyway.

he does some sort of lecturing down at falmouth college, so he needs a vehicle, but it really doesn't matter what he rolls - the guy next door to him on the other side has a little 'unit' down by the railway bridge where he fixes up old bangers, and the BX was just one of these bangers that jeff had given him - didn't care what make, what model, what style of wheels, ride-height, anything... it was just (in the tradition of le corbusier) a machine for getting him to work.

BUT in my eyes it looked rather smart, sat outside his house covered in algae, and i was telling him one morning (whilst mending his washing machine) how if it had been an old VW it'd be worth a fortune in that condition (it was at the height of the imported rat-look / hoodride hysteria) and his retort was something along the lines of "oh yeah, those old hippy vans that no old hippies can afford to own because the prices have all been driven up by the middle classes wanting 'toys'"

i'm sure the conversation then moved onto the idea of people paying £120 for *designer* ripped jeans versus getting a pair from cornish market world down at par moor for three quid and crawling about in them on the floor until the knees go but as i was wearing £75 *designer* skate shoes (despite not having been on a skateboard for over half my life) and he was wearing £3 trainers from, funnily enough, cornish market world down at par moor, i realised i was out of my depth and turned the conversation back to the moon landings or something... it was a while back now, my memory's not what it was :|

that's where the idea of him as *contrived* goes out the window really... he drives a mouldy car in three quid shoes... there is no hidden agenda :lol:

he's now got a MKIV escort... with alloys :shock:

me "wow... it's got alloys"

him "has it ?"

:roll:

 

[the councillor]

diego maradona wearing shirt designed by my neighbour when he might have been making better use of his time washing the algae off his car :wink:

 

[ballbag]

Buy this dude

http://forum.earlybay.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11106" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

 

[pete nice]

My van might still be up for grabs, I think a nice Syncro has come on the market. That's what I really want but I would need to sell the bay to buy it.

It could be deal time!