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jamesandtheopenroad wrote:Looks like a homebrew from an autosleeper donor interior.

Thankfully Autosleeper never made interiors like that....
It smacks of Holdsworth to me with a Autohomes pop top.

There is £3000-£4000 of welding there for restoration... not worth restoring unless it's a keeper.
Roadworthy work would be cheaper... but the van would be embarrassing to drive about for me.

Maybe you could do both? in moderation.
I wouldn't give up until you're told it's a financial wreck to you.

D'oh

kevtherev wrote:

jamesandtheopenroad wrote:Looks like a homebrew from an autosleeper donor interior.

Thankfully Autosleeper never made interiors like that....
It smacks of Holdsworth to me with a westfalia pop top.

There is £3000-£4000 of welding there for restoration... not worth restoring unless it's a keeper.
Roadworthy work would be cheaper... but the van would be embarrassing to drive about for me.

Maybe you could do both? in moderation.
I wouldn't give up until you're told it's a financial wreck to you.

Is it a westfalia top though? Looks like an autohomes top but with westy stickers.

Welding doesn't worry me, neither does interior work, paint on the other hand

Sorry my mistake you're correct. it might even be an autohomes interior

heres the Holdworth sink... quite similar



looks like the fridge was moved for whatever reason...I like daffy's

Shesh that makes my van look solid as a to rock ! Hope you have a deep wallet!

Identical, down to the covers and the way they are held up!

I am pondering over my best solution hence the post on here. It would be cool for us as a family to have as a day bus, going to the beach etc It isnt financially viable to restore it or even rebuild it as a true camper.

However, maybe the right thing to do would be to break it up and help keep loads of other vans going rather than saving this rather forlorn example!

Break it and buy another, way to far gone for a rescue. If it was your late fathers long lost camper, then maybe. But you just pulled this out of a front garden, parted with maybe £200? (hopefully) it will cost 4-5k to fix and most likely not be worth that. Good luck if you do go for the resto, you'll be mad, but I'd follow the build thread

What engine is it, do you know?

Would it pull a few quid back breaking it?

kevtherev wrote:What engine is it, do you know?

Here it is. Petrol watercooled but not sure of capacity (if they differ) until i get the paperwork tomorrow.

curlie467 wrote:Would it pull a few quid back breaking it?

A grand minimum, depending on what works and what isn't rusty

right mr curlie, weve played the game ,it works both ways and weve suggested a value so what did you end up giving for it
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Aye it's time to fess up

£500. Nay mind, not paid for it yet though so when I spoke to her about lowering the price due to it not actually being a westy, well, you can imagine how that went down!