Hi again!
The van has been officially camper about a month, well it's not that kind of camper what you members in UK are used to. This Finnish transformation is purely for avoiding to pay high annual taxes, in this case this change dropped taxes from 874€ to 336€ per year! And the modification costs were only about 100€
What it takes to make camper from this kind of old taxi / minibus in Finland:
- 2 beds which has to be 60X180 cm or one 120X180 cm bed, mounted some how solidly to vans body
- cooking place
- space for clothes, lining etc.
- table for eating purposes
In some cases there has to be free inside height 190 cm, in this case it wasn't needed. Don't ask me why it is so! But here are some pictures.
I changed those alloys in winter tyres in local tyre shop, van looks much better with the alloys on:
The 120X180 cm bed in the back section of the camper:
Cooking place, power needs to taking with cable (no inverted added):
Foldable table (always in taxis, the original table was removed at some point by previous owner):
Also I bought an second Transit today
Yes, you guessed it right. I am planning to do MK7 facelift at some point, this van has some good bits and bobs for that. My van is rotted from the back x-member and chassis, also the floor in the back is rotted a little. So this MK7 will be the donor vehicle for them. All this in bargain price at 350€... I bought it from Finland's biggest scrap yard called Autovahinkokeskus
www.avk.fi .
Everyone can take a look at those pics and calculate, what parts are the most valuable in this scrap body. It has for example whole wiring loom for MK7, in higher spec!
To be continued at some point...