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As I say ... it will be possible.... BUT the issue will be to get them arranged so you can get the same area for the bed...

I would say put the rear cupboards in. The see if you can live with the hacked seat back or get one made to match the cupboard layout.
The decide on what you do with the easicool housing and seat base.
I presume you do not have the cooker?
I have been looking for four years...LOL. I do think you could use a 63 style cooker grill mounted like they were in htat day.. LOL I have one! er two.
Once you have the easicool location sorted then you have the dinette table position and you can work on the buddy seat flipping.
All possible ...
Or you have something to sell to fund something else

I reckon it is all possible..
Lots have modified their own or got pieces made bit by bit...

I will flip all the pictures and post on my photobucket site and send you a link
G

tsunamivw wrote:Thanks for the reply, I'm beginning to conclude that I have a collection of Devon stuff as the buddy seat bits don't seen to fit together.
The rear cupboards and seats make sense but with I have too many bit for the buddy seats or some don't make sense.
I could reconstruct the rear seat with the easicool and its sliding seat which I think would be cool but I can't see any way to sensibly reconstruct the buddy seats from RHD to LHD
Does anyone want to trade? Perhaps for some LHD bits? Depending on what you have part or all of the pieces I have are available. Let me know your thoughts

Cheers

Sean

Hi Sean
I have been reluctant to reply seeing as Graeme has done such a good job, too many opinions would I think only confuse things.

I agree with the rear cupboards, leave as is, still totally functional. Swapping sides with the Easicool would be straight forward, the only small inconvenience would be the door hinging from the 'wrong' side, easy enough to put up with? The rear seats and seat backs would have to be modified to fit.

It would appear that the front arrangement has been hacked/modified anyway, so what harm is there to do more to have them fit your purpose. This is a very rare interior so the chances of you finding anyone to swap with would seem remote, you may just have to work with what you have.

TractionMan's input has been like finding the missing pieces to my jigsaw, the devil is in the detail as they say!!

Good luck with your project and post up any progress.

Hi Sean,

Some of this has probably been said before, but here are my thoughts on your questions.

Pic3 - This looks to be made from a cut down bulkhead cupboard rather than the walk-through cupboard/seat tops . The walk-through cupboard might have had two smaller sliders enabling them to be opened. Mine are 18" long if that helps, and the centre of the cupboard is not accessible (dividers added) due to the room being taken up by the spare wheel bulge.

Pic4 - Buddy seat that sits behind the driver. The cut-out by the radiator is for the spare wheel bulge in the bulkhead panel. You would need to make a mirror image of the top to fit a LHD bus. You would need to remove the top, flip it over and re-attach in a mirror image configuration. The edge that sits against the outside of the bus has no side so you would also need to swap the panel from the left to the right hand side. The panel slopes in towards the bottom. I've not measured it, but mine looks similar on both sides so you should be able to swap side piece quite easily.

Pic5 - This seat doesn't appear to come from a Torvette? Not sure what it is but looks to sit on LHS of bus again with cutout for the spare wheel bulge in bulkhead. You might be able to use this in place of the seat in pic4.

Pic7 - This is the removable buddy seat. It's symmetrical so should work in either configuration. There's a sharp pin mounted, facing upwards, on the right hand edge of the fixed seat behind the driver that the edge of the removable seat sits on to help it stay in place.

pic-8 - Cushion sizes:

Buddy seat cushions, all four, are 24"x18"x4"
Rear seat base 45"x18"x4"
Rear seat back 49"x18"x4"
Luggage area cushions two at 24"x18"x4" and one the same size but with a 15"x5" cutout.

Also I am fascinated by the orange gas pipe run from the rear....I expected a gas tap by the easicool and solid piping inside to that..
Does the cooker frame also have leg plates on the bottom of it to allow the cooker to be stood outside?
Are there any flushmount fittings on the door panels so you could use it on the open door?

I don't know if there was originally a gas pipe/tap. No obvious holes apart from the one into the wardrobe. The orange pipe is just added by me with a small CampingGaz bottle in the wardrobe. The hole into the wardrobe was already there. I don't tend use the stove in the van very often.

The cooker has threaded mounts on the bottom for legs. I don't have any legs but plan to make some. Not sure how long they would have been though.

I don't think the rear side door on my van is original as it has an opening window catch mount on it but no opening window, so can't tell you if there were originally cooker mounts on the door. The 66 brochure shows a fold down flap on the rear door for the wash bowl, not sure if this could have been used for the cooker. I guess it would be a bit of a pain to keep swapping it about.

If the bottom of the cooker has screw in plates on the base it could have been like this in principle?










The longest legs I know of are 25.5".

This is my 1963 black topped Dudley cooker.
I could imagine the same style legs on your base.

These legs are available..but may take some finding...just need patience and look in car boot sales, junk shops, charity shops...eBay ones get snapped up!
Did you get four legs with your dinette table?
Have you tried these....
Oops I have just remembered.. I have a set of typed User instructions for Spaceway but I do not recall if it covers Torvette..
I have about six from the Factory not looked in detail about 1966...Will study..

Whooooah

I have typed instructions for
1965 1966 Torvette Spaceway
AND
1965 1966 Torvette Standard I will scan the Standard and post on here

TractionMan wrote:
I don't think the rear side door on my van is original as it has an opening window catch mount on it but no opening window, so can't tell you if there were originally cooker mounts on the door. The 66 brochure shows a fold down flap on the rear door for the wash bowl, not sure if this could have been used for the cooker. I guess it would be a bit of a pain to keep swapping it about.

Here we go again (I love this stuff) ........ we may still have a small puzzle to solve here!! Graeme and I have had this conversation before, in another thread, with a couple of interesting points being made. We noticed in the photo in the 66 brochure you mention, that the rear cargo door table is actually wider than the door itself. Could this form part of the seat/bed layout that maybe serves a dual purpose, what do you guy's think? With it being wider, it would have to be removed when door is closed? The stay looks like a solid rod as well?

I posted some of our conversation (pg3) below from this thread ...... https://archives.ssvc.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=58843

Is there any chance you recognise this 'table' TractionMan?

barndoorz wrote:Thanks type21f

The little brackets look like them, the little table however looks different in the brochure for the Torvette Standard, a couple of things, the brochure table looks wider than the cargo door and it doesn't appear to have the alloy moulding around the edge.

It actually looks like it has an alloy stepped section that maybe doubles up as a piece to fill in for the bed maybe.

Type21f, if you enlarge this page of the brochure you emailed me you can see it clearer.

This is going to be fun trying to work it all out!!

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I have typed User instructions for the 1965/66 Torvette Standard...Never read this one!
Will scan and post..

G

Hi All

After a great deal of thought I've decided that I can't make this into the interior I want so, the various elements will be for sale and I amy be able to bring them to dub freeze otherwise they'll be collection only. thanks for the advice to date but i don't think these pieces can create the interior I want which is more the dual bench seat type, so if there are any swaps out there I'd be interested.
PS the first dibs stick on the parts people have messaged me about

Cheers

Sean

Hi All

I'm going to try and utilise the rear seat, table, cushions, easicool and cupboards with that in mind the rest is up for grabs as I've said i'd prefer trades, so if anyone has the carcass of a bulkhead bench seat or cupboard let meek know. I'm more interested intruding than selling. Here are the 1st bits i know I won't use.

This clearly clips on somewhere but I have no idea where, the hole is clear but the rest seems ok




This is a piece of card covered in similar material, again i have no clue (hand is there for size reference)

First of two curtains





second curtain



More to come as I progress so let me know if you'd like any of these bits.

Cheers

You will not regret using the bits you have identified.
I have an early cupboard but wrong for the ers.
These do turn up..
I would love the curtains...but what can I trade....
Devon Caravette badge?

tsunamivw wrote:


First of two curtains





second curtain

I would trade my left ...... agh, better not say, for those curtains!! But what possible use would that be to you .......
Seriously though, have never seen curtains offered up anywhere before. The only remnant of original curtain I have is one of the tie-backs and then only half of one!

Is this fabric or something similar available anywhere?

Hi All

Slight update on curtains, I folded them up today and the material in one of them is very weak, my thumb went through, I'm not very keen to put the other one to the test so a heads up, I don't know what you can do about it as they're quite old

Cheers

Sean

I would love to hawk them round to get a quote to have some material woven inthe colour way..
Would be great to get a "Curtain Material Technologist to examine the weaving pattern....because it is no doubt exactly the same in each colourway, Turquoise Blue, Greem Red and Tan..
Interesting idea...

type21f wrote:I would love to hawk them round to get a quote to have some material woven in the colour way..

I'll join the queue!! Surely there would be a market for a run of this fabric?