Author Topic: Shaun's Rusty Bed On Wheels Takes Him Away On A Trip  (Read 50154 times)

Offline SoundillusioN

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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #40 on: 05 July 2012, 10:38 »
Welcome back dude! an welcome to the T25 club!

I'm member number 1

you're member number 2

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Thanks Jord.... So is that enough members for a new T25 forum!?

Is the rest of your subject 'ids'?

Come again?  :huh:


LOL I'll have to catch up with you and your shinanigans!  :lipsrsealed:

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Picked it up last night, drama free which was good.  Actually really enjoyed the drive. Cruised Plodded/chugged down the motorway quite happily at 70.  It has a slightly annoying hesitancy at low revs which I knew about and needs looking at ASAP, other than that, was all good.

The wood used for the makeshift camper interior is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to chunky and heavy!  Certainly won't be helping things performance/economy wise and will all need to be redone me thinks. Will post pics tonight as I couldn't take any last night, we had a monsoon and then it got dark.

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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #41 on: 05 July 2012, 10:49 »
Sweet van. Never mind what state it's in, you've got a van and it's got MOT. Enjoy.

I'm borrowing my mates T25 camper next month for a road trip, I'm probably going to come back wanting one.


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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #42 on: 05 July 2012, 10:52 »
Good to see you back here Shaun.

Looks a nice project.  Hope things work out.

Jonathan.


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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #43 on: 05 July 2012, 11:08 »
Sweet van. Never mind what state it's in, you've got a van and it's got MOT. Enjoy.

I'm borrowing my mates T25 camper next month for a road trip, I'm probably going to come back wanting one.

That's the main thing!............ for now.

Yes, they do lure you in.  :grin:

Good to see you back here Shaun.

Looks a nice project.  Hope things work out.

Jonathan.


Thanks Jonathan, looks can be deceiving.  Right now I have beer goggles on so it's all good.  :grin:

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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #44 on: 05 July 2012, 11:10 »
This used to be a hippy band bus before I purchased it.

http://www.druidsbrew.com/photo_gallery.asp

If you fancy a game of Where's Wally, I've found it in some of their old pictures, shame they're so small though.


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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #45 on: 05 July 2012, 15:20 »

Is the rest of your subject 'ids'?

Come again?  :huh:

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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #46 on: 05 July 2012, 16:59 »

Is the rest of your subject 'ids'?

Come again?  :huh:

"Shaun goes missing and comes back with a..ids"

Still not with you.... what's an ids?

Edit:.... Ahhhh.  :rolleyes: How did I not get that?

Don't answer that.  :grin:
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Re: Shaun goes missing and comes back with a.........
« Reply #47 on: 11 July 2012, 00:36 »
Had my first overnight outing in it on Saturday at a mates mini music festival!  Was awesome.

Don't think I can ever tent it again.

Been too busy to post pics but will get on the case tomorrow. If you're on my facebook then you may have caught some with it towering over the golf.  :grin:

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Akai Racing T25 Team Bus Project - Updates P5
« Reply #48 on: 11 July 2012, 15:01 »
OK, so here's some snaps of the van at it's new home after a good scrubbing, well not too good or I would have ended up putting my hand through it.   :laugh: Also I had to be careful where I pointed the pressure washers lance at times! :grin:

I had to do something terrible and temporarily steal the Golfs wiper blades, the vans were sh*te!

Also note the Caution Tape... it's not covering anything bad on the arches at all.  :lipsrsealed:

The tints on it are great, very mild up front but limo at the back which is nice and private, day or night.  :cool:









All of the interior needs to come out at some point (probably over the winter),its been made from the most heavy duty, solid wood you can think off and as a result weighs a tonne! The carpeting is rubbish, I'd say its all function over form at the moment. 

Pictures taken once fabric/curtain stripping for cleaning purposes had already begun









Original Front seats were battered, newer ones without rips or burns have been fitted





Some temporary interior after shots, coming right up.................
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Re: Akai Racing T25 Team Bus Project - Updates P5
« Reply #49 on: 11 July 2012, 15:23 »
Until winter comes the missus made it more cosy by stripping everything out, boil washing curtains and buying new covers, cushions, some wrap for the worktop etc etc.  She spent the whole day sanitising the interior.  :grin:

Good thing is, in it's current form it has plenty of storage and a little fold out table.







Some old seat covers we had lying around from the old Mustang to keep these seats in good order for a muddy weekend we had planned