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

























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

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

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

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

henk!!!

Your still my hero !

211vanman wrote:Your still my hero !

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

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

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

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

Nice one Dave, looking forward to seeing this progress.

Good luck!!

you must be totally mad !!!!


congratulations on your madness, well done

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

So is your other barn up for sale then?

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

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.