Not much has changed since I left the van with the panelbeaters on Friday. Hardly enough to see some slight but important progress. It’s raining on and off right now so they couldn’t do too much to the body yet.
But let’s have a looksee:
Anyhoo, cutting the roof off would be stupid right now, same as removing windscreen and side windows. It’s about time Oubaas will get a dedicated space inside the shop.
THAR SHE BLOWS! 
For a mk 1 transit your van is in very good condition. What colour are you going for. I know you mentioned it before.
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Hi Neil, for the top third we kinda decided on RAL 9001 – Crème https://www.ralcolorchart.com/ral-classic/ral-9001-cream, the center third RAL 5012 – Light Blue https://www.ralcolorchart.com/ral-classic/ral-5012-light-blue, and the bottom third Crème again.
Usually Red is my favourite colour but not for our little van. There I insisted on some happy summery colour scheme. Think ice cream on the beach … vanilla and seafoam green and azzurro blue.
Now is créme a tad dark for my taste and we’ll maybe go for a whiter shade of white. And the blue could maybe use a little greenish hue? Oh my, decisons, decisions. 😮
PS: I edited your post. Hope you don’t mind.
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My transit recovery truck was light blue, and later white. It will look amazing. I really should buy myself another van.
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Should?
As far as I’m concerned it’s a must!
Now that I’ve refound my love for vans – after many many years with limousines and station wagons and motorcycles – I decided that everybody must be in posession of a van or any kind of RV. Because if capitalism keeps on going on about robbing us of our money and creates global economic crisises, and we’ve been kicked out of our houses, where else will we sleep at night, and cook, and shit, and listen to music and watch movies and have transport to travel and commute in? Can’t sleep on your Harley or in your Porsche, that’s for sure. 😐
I mean, ok, you always find a cozy place in your allotment’s garden shed. But can you still afford the allotment after the next crisis? Covid-19 delivered the best excuse for the capitalists to take everything away from the little people. And in the harsh reality of planet Earth in the year 2020 there is no hobbington and no shire were the little people can find shelter. 😮
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The allotment is 80 pence a week, I can afford that but I probably won’t keep it. I have several friends that live in vans. England’s full of people sleeping in the streets. It’s a bad time for a lot of people.
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80 pence??? Not 80 pounds or sumfink but 80 pence? I would take a dozen of those and put the biggest shed ever on it. 🙂
And yes, vanlife is the latest craze right now. If by ones own desire or out of necessity, everybody moves into their cars and vans. Didn’t know the UK would copy the US in all details yet. But sleeping in the streets? Last I checked it was by choice as well. Nobody has to sleep in the streets. At least not in Germany. Don’t you have a robust social security system anymore? Must we worry about our pension funds?
But when you watch the latest vanlife videos out of Europe, it’s like a pandemic in itself. All the secret camp spots are overrun, year round. Spain and Portugal, even down to Morocco, hundreds and thousands of vanners abound.
https://orcaflotta.blog/2020/07/09/prison-days-99-106/
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Sadly the social security system is awful. Most homeless aren’t there by choice.
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True dat.
But afaik nobody has to sleep outside as we have enough shelters. It’s just that many guys prefer to stay away from the shelters. Must be terrible there.
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