and so on..

bit of funky beam work

Time for an interior,

Great Bus cant believe the difference from what it was!!!! love the interior by the way, i really like the wood, mines all metal bed and metal creative bulkhead seat doesnt look as inviting and cosy as your love the pictures, keep them coming LOL

Cheers Bruce, i`m trying to add them slowly so i remember how to do it, it only took me six years to get to the stage of posting them!

good stuff Gary good to see how its evolved over the years

Thanks Sean, these are all from when Neil & Jo owned it, nearly at my bit!
After all the reviving the bus got treated to a bit of driving!
Convoying from Holland to Spa 2006

So, in 2007 at Stanford Hall, i sotted a certain `63 for sale, it ticked all the boxes of what i like/wanted, but as i was with the family in my `67, and didn`t fancy pushing through the crowd that was round it whenever i tried to get near it, i put it to the back of my mind. Two things i remembered on the drive home , we`re trundling along as a pg/sg cruises by, put his hand up and disapears over the horizon! "why aren`t we doing that speed?" is the next question i face! Well, we would be if we were in that `63 i tried to look at earlier, was the best(most diplomatic!) thing i came up with! "Well, did you get the details/ can you sell this and buy it?" was the answer!!! Right, i wasn`t expecting that, and the only thing i could remember, my heart was racing now, and not because we`re doing 45 and another artic is rocking by us, it said "boat" someting in the back window, and i remember a picture on 2 A4 pieces of paper in the window taped together,showing the underside, (no piles of Sh£$e here)!

So I track down Boatyard Buses, arrange a viewing and we`re off!

Now I promised my mrs I wouldn`t just say yes there and then, so after looking round it I try to remain calm and say I have to sleep on it, my inner voice said "its a deal", Luckily for me my inner voice is quite loud so Neil and Jo know its on as well!

Not entirely sure , but daytripping at possibly Stanford hall..

I think the fog light and "England" and "Lincolnshire" badges on the back bumper were the first additions by me!

One day I'll be able to post pics hopefully before I get too old

Hope so Andy, the forum needs the Partridge yellow dream machine story!

Love this bus!

Can`t remember when this went on, but it does show the rings on the metal where Ray Mears` dinner was growing very slowly!

the first incarnation of the headliner, 25mm jablite above 2mm mdf

then onto a bamboo veneer

Roof rack (forest find of course!) experiment


It works!