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Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:16 pm
by Ged
Scraped back the old sign and found this under...

Touched up the stripes and green 1970s respray

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:36 pm
by woval56
nice, love the green

Posted: Tue May 22, 2012 8:51 pm
by morts
That looks great - how about putting a few more pics up

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 7:06 am
by D-Train
Insane.. Killer signwriting..

Posted: Wed May 23, 2012 7:09 am
by 63 left hooker
Looks like the "Ben 10" of splittys, my 5 year old would love it :D

early shots

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:19 pm
by Ged
Original owner (since mid 70s) gave the bus some incarnations:

tyre shop, carwash then catering service

I have contacted several previous owners but would love to see how many punters have owned this since new

a few more

Posted: Thu May 24, 2012 7:25 pm
by Ged
some other bits

Posted: Fri May 25, 2012 8:22 pm
by morts
Love it - so if the car wash logo pic is how it currently sits it seems someone did a pretty good job on the rear guards.

Posted: Sun May 27, 2012 5:29 pm
by Ged
Morts

a few previous owners (dskers)organised some good rust and repair work on the body, I just had a skim of bog and touched it up :roll:

Re: Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 7:55 pm
by Ged
This was a previous link that I am saving in here so I don't lose it

viewtopic.php?f=16&t=15027

Re: Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2012 9:27 pm
by byronbus
Some good memories when you back thru all the links...

Re: Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2012 7:51 pm
by Ged
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=15587&bookmark=1&hash=de3d9a3b

Added this link from last year so I wouldn't lose the progress shots of the sign stripping. I think this was my first post.

Have just started stripping green paint from door interior to OG polar white

Re: Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:45 pm
by Ged
Got a kick up the arse by the Palm Beach-Elanora DSK motivator (thanks Grant) over a few Coronas then next day he's back helping swapping the beam.

More progress shots to come. Some fun with sticking tie rod ends...slow start but moving in the right direction.

Re: Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:02 pm
by vw nutter1
Oh man i remember this van when it came up for sale 10yrs ago in laverton....

Missed out on it unfortunatley but you gotta be quick these days :)

nice bus mate, what is the original colour by the way?

Re: Carwash van ex Country Kitchen

Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 9:19 pm
by spl65t
Nice one GED, keep going.
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