04-11-2018, 06:58 PM
(04-11-2018, 06:14 PM)Martin Prior Wrote: Today was a an increasingly rare opportunity to work on one of my own projects, rather than a customer's.
The chassis of The Thing from the Cesspit is now on the table (beats the Hell out of grovelling around on the workshop floor!) and is finally being reassembled. Hopefully, it'll be united with last year's "Frankenstein" engine before long and will then have the ruinous remains of the body fitted.
The total budget for the whole build of an RP high-roof van from scrap is £1000 and we should have the mechanical side completed for half of that.
I'm very tempted to put it on the road "as is" next year, with a view to carrying out the conversion into an RP high-roof van the following winter.
Hi Martin,
I look forward to following your progress, hopefully you'll be posting future updates and photos. It seems likely you'll have your RP high-roof van on the road long before mine! I'm still short of a complete RP bulkhead / scuttle / A post / screen surround for mine and as we discussed some time ago, my ash framework will probably need replacement sections as it's incomplete and not in the best of condition.
Jeff.