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I am trying to make the perfect track van on a budget.
I was fortunate to be given this bus a while back:
Added some decals:
Then some “bling” tints LOL:
(don’t try that youself lol, (especially at night when you never done it before! LOL)Then the Head Gasget failed….
GrrrI replaced it with this for £750:
It was an ex builders van and considering that was in pretty good shape on the outside. The interior however was anotherthing, full of cement dust to the poilnt that when you sat in the drivers seat it was like sitting on a powder puff and dust filled the cab.Clever lil me thought jet washing the inside would be a good idea….
…. It wasn’t lol, ended up with it still bein full of dust, but now had wet electrics and the cab was now completely splatered with wet cement going hard! [
]I have now got it a bit better after time with a towel and leaving the cement to go hard in the sunlight.
Anyway, have done some robbing off the bus to help make the van better for sleeping in the back of and now the bus looks like this:
And the van looks like this:
I am glad it all fitted, but will work on the rust next, then maybe pay someone to clean the inside out properly so I can sort some storage space and camping bits. I know I can take 3 bikes in a swb tranny but 2 is really all I expect to so will try fit cupboards and maybe a fridge, deffo want some power and have fitted some basics but want a socket on the outside to attach a lead to as well as sorting a sacrificial battery to power things when a power point isn’t available.
Great stuff Pete.
I looked at doing van ‘kitting out’ some years ago. It’s a serious business idea. Take a van, ideally hi-top, that is worth very little and kit it out with bed, fridge, units, loo etc. You then have a camper van which hugely increases the resale value. Have you seen the price these things sell for? Stumbling block was that some insurance companies didn’t always like the fact that the van started life as a van, not a camper.
I can only get 1 bike in my Transporter van, can you get 2 comfortably in the Transit?
Hahaha, this is the bus packed for Donny earlier in the year:
Was a tight squeeze with all the tools and kit (some stuff went via car tho).
With 2 bikes its much more civilised tho:
Good job pete,as the saying goes,God loves a tryer and you certainly fulfil your willingness.Look forward to seeing the finnished van.PS can you put the other roof off the bus on the van as the extra height would benifit the loading and unloading of the bikes plus more head room for general pottering about.Good luck mate.
That’s a great pic of the 3 bikes in the van. Love the fact the middle bike seems wedged in there like it was ridden at high speed into the back. Tell me you didn’t do that.
Hehehehe, it was one of our ideas lol. No we were gonna put it in backwards but we couldn’t get the centre stand down that way so we pushed it in as far as it would go, then put the stand down and lifted it in the rest of the way! (I prefere your plan tho!
It would be great if I could put the semi hi-top on the van but I don’t think its possible and as long as I keep hitting my head against the roof I’ll remember its there so I dont hit my head! D’oh, maybe I’ve whacked it once too often! LOL
I’ve got the bike in it at the mo and gonna take it camping to St Ives this weekend as meeting a lass over there who wants to go pillion on it. Should be fun, the bike, ride and camping! :p I need to look into getting a small fridge and work out a nice layout for it as although I do use it to get my mates bikes to trackdays I’d rather it be a squash for that and have more creature comforts when its just me!
Seriously, here is a list of breakers. You moght be able to source stuff from them to make life trackside more comfortable
Aaaargghh! I clicked on the link and it was full of caravans!!!!
Radar, you’re the only guy I know brave enough to post a list of caravan breakers on a motorbike site.
Pete don’t listen to Radar!!!
You’ll find yourself peeing into bucket of blue stuff before you know it!
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Originally posted by katanaPete don’t listen to Radar!!!
You’ll find yourself peeing into bucket of blue stuff before you know it!
Yuk, far too graphical[V]………I can SMELL the Elsan from here[
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