1988 VW Transporter *Update 15/08*

How it all started, a £250 panel van that had been sitting in a garden for 2 years:




it was supposed to be done and on the road in a couple of months for a grand total of £500 , but then perusing fleabay I bought these, and the budget went off the tracks a bit…:


having got some nice rims I started poking at the rest of the van, to see what state it was actually in: having been sat next to a hedge for 2 years took its toll on the sliding door runner:


while pondering what to do about the rotten metal, I took a day out to get the wheels prepped up, and sent them with my mate to college to spray them up nice and shiny :


still stuck trying to find a donor van to chop up to save the door runner, the drivers side was attacked and made good:


apart from the fuel filler, as the replacement arches I got were curse word and not worth putting on:


back to the passenger side, the offending rot around the runner was chopped away with the aid of Mr. Plasma cutter, who did a nice job of making life easy, after the hell of 5 cutting discs and a grinder in the scrappy removing the donor section:





the donor van also gave up its windscreen, and some bits of screen surround:

after more fleabay perusals, this turned up, and the large spindly bus wheel that was in was consigned to the scrap pile:


a clearing out of my shed dug out these seats I had aimed to fit to my bug, but never got round to, so they made their way into the cockpit too: