Our Madeira Red van

**jennie285** · 25-03-2012, 09:15 PM

We have almost finished this old girl....hoping to have her ready to take to Albury over Easter....a few planets need to align for this, but we are on track...

Today we fitted the interior, yesterday Adam painted the rear, Rodney got all the lights working, so we can get rego tomoz....the high beam didn't work, and we couldn't work that out, but I came to the conclusion the little fuse, which was so much disgussed which was put on later HZ's for double headlights., might have blown which it was so now all operating correctly.

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I did a lot of work to cleaning up of bog dust which gets everywhere, and did the fascia....

Oh and BTW that steering wheel is gonskis we have one which is much better condition, and will restore this one for another van....

**Jeza** · 25-03-2012, 09:19 PM

That's lookin awesome Jenny!

**hainzy** · 25-03-2012, 09:25 PM

Looks fantastic. Wish I could crank out restored cars at the rate you guys do! Well done!

**HQVAN** · 25-03-2012, 09:28 PM

Looking really good guys! Top effort!

All the best in meeting your deadline, would be excellent to see it all fresh in Albury!

I hope the Automotive Gods are smiling down on you...

Praise the lowered!

**tup39** · 25-03-2012, 09:29 PM

Looking good wish mine was at that stage

**jennie285** · 25-03-2012, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by hainzy

Looks fantastic. Wish I could crank out restored cars at the rate you guys do! Well done!

Its a lot of work, but no sense having them sitting rusting away....we do have a very good friend helping us will all the panel work etc....its all about timing though, everything needs to be done in order, and sometimes one hold up can mean a month being idle....

**HK1837** · 25-03-2012, 09:44 PM

Originally Posted by hainzy

Looks fantastic. Wish I could crank out restored cars at the rate you guys do! Well done!

Perfect example of why you shouldn't buy rustbuckets! Good body to start with saves huge amounts of time!

**hainzy** · 25-03-2012, 09:49 PM

Very true Byron! Mine certainly was no rust bucket but I had a mate paint it who took about 20 months and I was also doin up 2 other cars at the same time... A good body and a car with the important bits intact certainly puts you miles in front though!

**wbute** · 25-03-2012, 09:53 PM

Looking good Rod and Jennie! Nice colour too.

**HZ EVIE** · 25-03-2012, 09:58 PM

Sometimes knowledge and know how can hold you up too (or the lack of it in my case, all a very big learning curve).

Looks great guys!!!
When do we get to see the Malchite one. Interested to see that one 'cause as you would know, that was the original colour of mine.
Keep up the good work.