Sorry for the long time since posting more info, things like work, weather, broadband issues etc have slowed things, but I've now caught up
Progress so far then:
All the welding work has been completed, including the panels where the air box to the o/s/r live, and the empty bit to the n/s/r rear. I also took all the body glass out, and apart from the windscreen area which I already knew was rotten, the rest of the window frames were fine, just a little sanding and some vactan and they are now ok. Here's an image of the last main panel being fitted, the n/s/r qtr:
I was quite pleased to find that, like the other side, the rust was only on the surface, where some light sanding and vactan soon treated it:
I removed the n/s sliding door to take a closer look for any more corrosion to the cill and channel where the door seal lives, and once again, pleased to find just surface rust to sand off. Note too the condition of the main reinforcement sill underneath, where I've begun to remove the now-flaky underseal. The original factory paint is nigh pristine underneath so I'll keep taking the old gunge off and replace with some new underseal plus some cavity wax over the top.
And after, with some etch primer applied,
I then went onto drilling the new hole for my front panel mounted aerial, the old screen pillar one was held together with gaffer tape
Here's an image of the windscreen channel repair, after I'd welded in new metal. I could have bought a repair panel, but decided to make my own from some good metal from the old side panels so at least I would then be using decent metal and not something from an old baked bean can...
Here's one of the windscreen having a trial fit, all fitted well, thankfully!
I decided to paint the door shuts too, plus the inner A posts beforethe dashboard goes back in so that all the new paint blends in and it will make life easier when doing the outside as the shuts can be masked with foam tape so no overspray can get inside and spoil things.
Here's one of the top of the new n/s/f wheelarch:
So now the dashboard & steering column goes back in at long last:
And now the worst bit of all, sanding the entire van down! It has had a cellulose respray done to it at some time in its life. Trouble with that stuff is that it's nowhere as durable as a 2 pack, so will sun-fade and be too soft to withstand stone chips and the like. Worse, its a pig to get off as its still soft so it takes a lot of sanding to remove. Thats said, I did my best to not bust through the original factory paint underneath, so as to preserve the facroty electro-coat primer, unless it was absolutely necessary.
To avoid spoiling it,I've masked the pop-top off after painting it, but forgot to take images
I'll apply the 2 pack primer on tomorrow with luck, so more images will follow.
While the weather has been too wet, I turned my attentions onto recovering the interior cupboards with vinyl [Thanks for the tip, Kev The Rev] and I'm very pleased with the result. Note the new carpet on the bottom of unit, and I've also taken a couple of some random inside panels, which the good lady wife and daughter kindly did for me.
Sorry mate, I've selected the wrong image from another folder 
