RHD 1954 Samba

[kilgore]

Well here we go again. Couple of weeks a go Dai had a momentary lapse of concentration and decided to sell his bus. In a very panicked 12 hour period a deal was struck and I am now the proud and scared owner of a RHD barndoor samba. Well some of a RHD barndoor Samba

Progress is going to be slow as a project of this scale is way beyond my abilities and the only man I know fit for this Job is Master Smith in sunny Cornwall so after a couple of weeks home here in the midlands with me the old .... box will be taking up residence down there where its currently booked in behind a long line of almost as fooked buses

Beers, pasties and monetary bribes have already began to try and jump the queue!!

Here are a few pics from collection on Friday, hope you enjoy

Dave

( EDITED lots of posts due to Photobucket removing all my images and not allowing hosting on 3rd party sites )

























Made it home



First things first after a 12 hour day collecting. Wood chocks to try and make it look more bus like

[67ben]

Congratulations dave
This will be such a cool BarNdoor when it's done look forward to seeing the updates

[kilgore]

Thanks dude!! Itching to get started. Parts list and funky green panel list has commenced!!!

[henk]

correction:you are the owner of half a barndoor at the moment.
but i'm still jalous about it.

henk!!!

[211vanman]

Your still my hero !

[kilgore]

Your still my hero !

You need to come have a giggle dude before it heads south

[spit nolan]

Was an awesome 12 hour day though dude Thanks for letting me be a part of it.

[pipvan]

Crazy ******* i love it.

[Dai]

Gah, thought I'd seen the last of this old bucket!

Gutted its not mine any longer, but glad to see it having some progress. There have been a lot of changes since I bought it in 2007, so my thoughts were that if I was going to drive this I would have built it by now. The timings worked out well for you guys and as you say it was a momentary lapse while I had man-flu when I advertised it, so now it has a different future, but it looks to be a rosy one. I wish you well on your quest, and I will use the barn space that has become available wisely

[Choc]

Nice one Dave, looking forward to seeing this progress.

Good luck!!

[maddison]

you must be totally mad !!!!


congratulations on your madness, well done

[Byron Bamboo]

Good luck with the resto.. hopefully wont be too long before its on the road..

Crazy Project.. but it'd be worth it in the end!

Deano

[SAMBA VAN MAN]

So is your other barn up for sale then?

[kilgore]

Thanks boys! Probably am a little mad but you only live once right??!! keeping the wind up for the moment Paul, i have a bit of a bus addiction

[ernie]

You can't be putting no scooby lump in that Dave, the purists will be out for ya blood!

Fair play though mate - that'll be nice in a few weeks when it's all done.