) Rang round for quotes for repairs to the bodywork, welding, new indicator, 1 new tyre and a full respray......... not much change out of 3 grand!!!! Anyway due to the wife being 10 days from dropping number 3 I am doing everything but the tyre and the welding!!!Started the chipping away of surface rust yesterday which left me with a sieve!!!!!!
the area behind the rear arches literally disintegrated due to the previous owner thinking that a van made of putty must be better?????? The sound of my wife laughing and the next door neighbour bringing round a number for a scrappy they know was not helping to be honest BUT I WILL NOT BE BEATEN!!!!So bearing in mind I cant weld I thought sod it...... good old fibreglass will do the trick!!!! Took me 4 hours to get it right, 2 hours to fill it to the right levels and sand it to the right shape and to be honest...... happy as a pig in!!!!!
As of 8pm tonight she is in primer from the door runner down and looking straight......... went to the spray shop and matched the 'bronze' colour so admired last year....... turns out the 1990 bus with the bronze paint is actually wearing 1999 charcoal grey???????
Finally, will post pics tomorrow but there is a moral to taking all the abuse of her indoors without biting.......... cos I went shopping and bought a full paint spraying kit!!!!! Compressor, guns, sanders and pipes!!!!!! The moral being...... if the hubby loves his transit....... dont laugh when he messes it up!!!!
and Dave....... the legendary skull trims are now a 'shadow' grey with about 5 coats of lacquer!!!!! looking good!!!!
I rubbed them down and used a chrome spray and they came up looking very bling 