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General Category => Featured Members => Topic started by: wendyh on February 13, 2018, 07:07:49 PM
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So it's pimp my own ride time!
My beddys getting a professional paint job
To match my shiney new super lights 😁😁😁
We stripped her down on the weekend into many many pieces....
Gunna be about 5 -6 weeks ...sooo missing it already...😯😯
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And i had greasy hands to prove i helped as well 😉😉
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Looks like you guys are really getting stuck in to it.. gonna come up mint..
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Looks like you been planting potatoes Wendy , lol
Cant wait to see the purple people eater with her
New paint .
Sneek into the paint shop n get some progress pictures, :)
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Haha more like cleaning the grease of all the sliding mechanisms
Yeah I'm hoping Ray will..it's near where he works..
Sooo looking forward to seeing it finished 🤗🤗🤗🤗
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Sooo she painted....
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And looking nice n shiney
She came home last fridabeen waiting for sliding
Door rubbers to arrive pl us a few other things
Big weekend planned putting her back together
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Looking good
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Very good reflection in that paint job.
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Nice job :)
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Hi Wendy,
I have just bought a Beddy & is due to arrive next week. Looks pretty straight (but you never know). Needs a respray & was wondering if you can pass on the name & contact details of the person who did yours?
Thanks,
baz
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Yeah nice....ok Steve Oconner smash repairs at edgeworth 49583222.
Nice old fella..been in the game a while and has a few young blokes working for him.
Mention me and my purple van😊
Keep us posted with how your resto is goig ...we all enjoy pictures☺
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Thanks Wendy & Ray.
I'm looking forward to getting it engineered, registered, on the road & meeting up with you guys sometime
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Yeah a meet up is on the cards up here for sure...and in Sydney too...where abouts are you located?
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Hi Wendy & Ray,
I'm at Allambie Heights, northern beaches - about 5k from Manly.
Looking forward to a meet-up with you guys.
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Ok nice ...yeah same here ! 😊
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Our 3yr old radiator started falling apart...found an aluminum 3 core one on ebay for $150.
Not enough room for the mechanical fan...had to mount brackets out of rods to support 7.5 inch motor bike electric fans, since we were left with minimal millimeters left..😒😞
Even shaved off the water pump bolt ....anything was worth s shot....
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Ray fitted a 160 degree thermostat... took the van fora 3 hour run on a warm day.
Sat between 160 and 175 on freeway and in newcastle traffic...so pretty happy with the radiator and electric fans..might have too keep a spare on on hand thou....
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7years ago when we purchased the van we fitted some 20 mm squre rubbbers to the body to try and seal the doors...
As sliding doors are really hard to seal...
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Did a bit of research...and ordered in quite a few samples....
Came up with this pichweld that we fitted to the doors instead of the body...
and seals heaps better 😄
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We worked full days for a few weekends to get the van on the road
I was putting these pictures on bedford vans australai face book page
On the sunday showing our progress putting the van back together,
Had a few diehard bedford fans chaffin at the bit ...waiting to see a full van picture .
But i wanted to wait untill see was all back together and nice and clean,
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It was fun teasing them...but it did take a while...things werent going back on easy...tippical bedford style..
A lot of things were a muck around especailly the sliding doors.
I also kept find things that needed painting either purple or black.
I was really wanting to do a nice job this time round.
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I reupholstered the grey kia carnival seats year model 2000
Found the last 9 mtrs of purple fabric that the xr6 and xr8 were fitted out with...the other colurs were blue, red, yellow, orange , green and grey...so stoked to find purple 😎😎😍
Made real leather gear stick boot and hand brake boot, and also covered a trophy box in black leather to house our stero that is mounted to our dash shelf were Buddha also sits.
We stripped out the old felt trunk liner from the internal ceiling and walls sine all the dust from the paint shop made it look shabby....
We really did a full make over except the engine bay, we left it in the origianl purple acrylic paint we did 7 yrs ago...too much work was required to do that ...
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Finally shes all back together and back on the road.
Really happy the way it all came together.
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Found a few more pics ..
The interior before....and after....
Our temperature guage...so stoked its sits on 160 - 175
Our original seat bases modified to mount the kia carnival seats
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Very nice indeed. 8) Thanks for the pics.
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Wow looks amazing.. Good effort!
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Thanx bugas 😄😄
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Hi mate the van looks COOL ;)
Hi mate the van looks COOL ;)