My Mk2 County

[Tidy Tom]

Hi everyone,

I just thought I'd give an update on this van. I had a couple of weeks off work recently, and one of the things I was going to do was to start work on the van. It's in an open storage lot about 40 or 50 miles away from me in the next county, and typically enough, when I rang the guy up to say I was planning on coming over, it turns out he was away somewhere and the van had been moved into a corner of the yard, surrounded by all manner of old stuff and couldn't really be worked on

It's starting to get annoying, I've owned this bloody thing for ages now but never seem to get the chance to get going on it! Oh well. There's a few pictures of what it's like now - it actually looks worse now as it's got so much old tat lying around it, and the mildew has started to grow. On the plus side, the guy who runs the yard has been going round it welding bits for me, and that's almost done now, so at least it's fairly solid underneath. I really need to get that "Blackpool or bust" rubbed off the side as well

This is the back of it - featuring the back door that I still haven't got round to finding a handle for:


This is the side featuring the Blackpool slogan!


And I thought I'd give a close up of the side windows, which are of note out of their sheer nastiness - some sort of wobbly perspex held in place with what looks like carpet rail:


And then I've put this on the end as it cheered me up in a sort of anoraky way - someone else has got themselves a "project" by the look of it in the form of this thing which is parked just across from me:


Do I win a prize for having the worst van on the forum?
Cheers,
Tom.

[joe 10]

i think i`ve got a tailgate handle for your van.let me know if you interested,i`ll hunt it out

[Tidy Tom]

A big thanks to Joe for finding me the door lock - it arrived today.
Thanks for that - it's the first progress I've made on the van in ages

[Tidy Tom]

Here's the door handle!



Secondly, I went and collected 4 of the wheels yesterday to rub down and repaint. On that note, does anyone know roughly what I should expect to pay to get them sandblasted?



Cheers,

[bigmastif]

was this on ebay a couple of year back ?

[pipeforce]

Not sure what its like over there but in aus I pay 40 dollars a rim for sand blasting and powdercoating. would that be 20 squid

[irishtransit]

Not sure what its like over there but in aus I pay 40 dollars a rim for sand blasting and powdercoating. would that be 20 squid

that sounds like good value

[jolly olly]

£30 a wheel, is the cheapest i have found so far that's up in the northeast, sand blasted and powder coated any colour.

[Tidy Tom]

Okay, thanks for that. It might be a bit expensive in that case, I've got 7 of them to do and the wheels are bigger than a normal Transit's as it's a County - they're about the same size as an Iveco Daily or Ford A series' wheels I think.

Might have to make do with a wire brush and a tin of Hammerite