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well its all repaired ready for paint  finished of the rear 1/4 today.. and rolled! on some primer just to keep the damp at bay! going to bring it home now and finish it of in my garage.. as all was took some photos as I went ..     looking better.. not perfect.. but better than it was!!  and had to take a photo with its "tempo" rims on!! ;D  only thing is.. they don't give me much "speed hump" clearance!   will update.. when I done a bit more!  EDIT: just noticed in the front on photo.. that the N/S lower valance took a knock to  didn't see that before best pull that out to! |
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Last Edit: Jul 3, 2010 16:23:40 GMT by petetong
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Wheels look spot on and the repair work has come on a treat, glad to see you sticking at it, this van is too awesome not to!
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looks good
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Love this van looks great, glad you decided to repair it..  |
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Jul 14, 2010 21:51:28 GMT
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well its booked in for its MOT on Saturday.. and the plan is to take it camping in a couple of weeks BUT the plan was to spray the the rear at work.. but theres no room in the workshop at the mo and i can't take it camping looking like it was..(well i could,but the Mrs would!) so plan B put in to action.. i could spray it home here in the garage, but i don't like upsetting the mrs!(she says it stinks the house out!!).. so out came the good old roller.. and couple of coat's of 2k.. and its a proper bodge job! but looks better for it ;D   will wet flat it and do it proper,when we get time!!  |
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Jul 14, 2010 23:04:19 GMT
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Looks great, so glad you decided to repair it! Would have been a crying shame to scrap such a nice van I'm quite a fan of those temporary wheels tbh  |
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Rich
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Jul 14, 2010 23:40:28 GMT
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Glad to see this getting repaired.. I was gutted when I saw the damage as I loved the evolution of this van! Good on you sir! |
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As the others have said, it's great to see you've gone ahead and repaired it. Your BFH combined with your skills & detemination have really paid off.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, this is one of my fave motors on RR - well done on keeping the mojo up and the van on the road. Epic stuff..... ;D ;D
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really please to see the old girl repaired dude would have been a real shame to lose such a cool van! top repair job! |
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thanks all for your inspirational replies it does help to keep the"mojo" going,knowing that other like what you do took a trip down to the test station yesterday... 12mth ticket on her... second year on the trot shes passed with no advisers ;D tester did like it to.said it made a change to test something "different"!!! going to start back on the inside again now.. so will update as and when i do stuff.. p.s.. have been toying with the idea of some banded standard rims on it?? with white wall Tyre's?? what you think?? might start a different post see what you all can come up with ;D |
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Jul 18, 2010 17:49:03 GMT
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I'm a huge fan of steels and whitewalls, but I'd be hesitant with this van because it looks so good on the current wheels. That said, if you went for whitebands instead of full wide whitewalls, it may well work with some period chrome/black Toyota hubcabs and yellow wheels.
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Sept 10, 2010 21:31:59 GMT
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update! 3 trips away camping with the family.. the kids were nagging that they couldn't see from there seats in the back.. so.. time for some budget(like i do!) rear windows. first you find a nice big sheet of 6mm polycarbonate.(found it at the local tip!! so it was free ;D)  make a hard board template.  then i cut out the window panel form the van.  used the template to mark out the window size and then cut it out from the Polly sheet.removed all the lettering, but this left little scratches,but........... good thing is with Polly is you can polish out little scratches.. did this with some cutting compound and the power mop. came up like new.. i wanted to hide the bonding of the glass(like the T4 windows are.)so i tinted the glass from the inside,but painted a black edge round the side first..  will hide the sealer when its bonded in.. and the finished window looks like this..  and here it is fitted ;D  really pleased with my "budget" window.. better than the £150 they wanted for fitting proper, non tinted glass  and that was each! I'll crack on and do the other side now. and take some photos of how i fitted it.. |
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Sept 10, 2010 23:19:34 GMT
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Looks awesome mate! Loving the window mod......... looks better than factory!!
I'm in the 5th month of living in mine! Only a few to go lol
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Sept 12, 2010 17:08:25 GMT
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really original work on this van, glad its still in cornwall , and not been exported to Africa .. keep up the good work fella.
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Sept 12, 2010 19:58:01 GMT
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Great looking van. My first company van was one of these B478 BOE. Same colour.
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Sept 12, 2010 20:25:40 GMT
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Nice.
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Love the window mod, looks factory. Looks better aswell as it breaks up the yellow a bit |
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I never read this thread till today- wow- great work and effort gone into ' a toyota van' he he- wicked. So nice to have read this as i've been working on ours- you have me all excited about pimping ours- except it will be going up in the world rather than down- I want even more 4wd clearance!
I like the round headlights on yours- I think we'll have to keep a look out for some.
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A bit of tint on the front windows would balance things up a bit, you might even go as far as painting the rear (non-window) panel black and giving it the fully windowed look. Quick 'shop:  |
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One of the better looking HiAces i've seen.
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didn't see that before 
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