Carravelle Restoration and trident restoration
Posted: 01 Jul 2017, 07:01
Hello ,
Having gained a great deal of information from this site I thought it time to introduce myself and my 2 t25s.
I've owned maintained a vast amount of VW's and audis since the early 90s from golf MK1 gti to a Corrado G60.
I started of with bay window campers which you could get back then for £500 with an MOT,restored my first camper in 1993 and hand coach painted it .I'm a fabricator /mechanical engineer by trade ,metalwork and ( air-cooled and diesel) engines I am competant with.So wanting to relive my youth I bought a 1988 carravelle with the intention of converting it to a full blown pop top camper,cut the bottom 6" off the usual places ,welded in 3mm plate for strength replaced virtually everything that could be unbolted , striped my beloved daily transport MOTd 1994 MK3 golf for its 1 y engine and stuck the KKK turbo on it .I started the resto on the mud drive in the rain ,built a propped drive and stuck a 6 m by 3 m tent on it .
I will try to upload the pictures of the tent in the winds of April 2015 .02:00 in the morning sawing wood roping ratchet strapping ,on the grand scale of stress this ranked quite highly!!
Van finished ( they never are really) may 2015, hand painted even though I have spray gear ,because it will be used and abused ( I had a concourse bay which I restored and became neurotic about parking it within 500 meters of other cars ,buildings ,weather .........) Anyway we took him France and as he ran well decided to carry on to Belgium ,Holland Germany, Switzerland,and italy . Got back ,decided that the single IKEA storage unit did not make a luxury camper and decided to buy a high top ( didn't want to chop the velle about) .I am fairly computer illiterate so forgive me if I upload pictures of no relevance whatsoever.lance
Having gained a great deal of information from this site I thought it time to introduce myself and my 2 t25s.
I've owned maintained a vast amount of VW's and audis since the early 90s from golf MK1 gti to a Corrado G60.
I started of with bay window campers which you could get back then for £500 with an MOT,restored my first camper in 1993 and hand coach painted it .I'm a fabricator /mechanical engineer by trade ,metalwork and ( air-cooled and diesel) engines I am competant with.So wanting to relive my youth I bought a 1988 carravelle with the intention of converting it to a full blown pop top camper,cut the bottom 6" off the usual places ,welded in 3mm plate for strength replaced virtually everything that could be unbolted , striped my beloved daily transport MOTd 1994 MK3 golf for its 1 y engine and stuck the KKK turbo on it .I started the resto on the mud drive in the rain ,built a propped drive and stuck a 6 m by 3 m tent on it .
I will try to upload the pictures of the tent in the winds of April 2015 .02:00 in the morning sawing wood roping ratchet strapping ,on the grand scale of stress this ranked quite highly!!
Van finished ( they never are really) may 2015, hand painted even though I have spray gear ,because it will be used and abused ( I had a concourse bay which I restored and became neurotic about parking it within 500 meters of other cars ,buildings ,weather .........) Anyway we took him France and as he ran well decided to carry on to Belgium ,Holland Germany, Switzerland,and italy . Got back ,decided that the single IKEA storage unit did not make a luxury camper and decided to buy a high top ( didn't want to chop the velle about) .I am fairly computer illiterate so forgive me if I upload pictures of no relevance whatsoever.lance