My friend has an old american school bus
Its AWESOME!! (he has trashed the inside of it though, i actually shed a tear)
We are going to be sorting out the inside of our van next (its already converted but needs a new bed) so i will be probably starting a thread showing our adventures, i have some pics of us painting it too so you can see the full transformation, we were really lucky, a friend gave us the vehicle for free because he left it rotting for five years (which is so awful) then we had a whole bunch of help from friends sorting the motor out, the welding was done for free... then we found ourselves in a RIGHT pickle where the van was left (without tax or insurance :S) outside our mates lockup where it was being welded for a couple o days and some gypsies took a liking to it
Wanted to scrap her :O
so we phoned a local garage on reccomendation of a mate and asked them to take her in and get her up to MOT standard, we were SO terrified of what it was going to cost
anyway, they have had the van for 2.5 months and wouldnt give us a quote, said she was pretty screwed and if they tallied up all the hours it would run into the thousands... so we waited, finally we got a reply...
'we dunno what to charge for her but is been a pleasure getting an old van back on the road... just give us 500 quid' :O :O :O
we are SOOO happy
so yup, watch this space, come next spring our 41 year old bedford will be back on the road, new engine, new bed, new interior
very excited
and its been a proper 'community project' loads and LOADS of our traveller (new age travellers rather than gypsies) have come and stayed with us and helped paint her, people who know about brakes or drums or tyres. We have been donated paints and all sorts
Its amazing