Re: Re: TOC at the NEC

[Anonymous]

That sounds about right! Old UK vans are in a minority here now, they never survived well. There was too long a period of them being unpopular and most would have been scrapped after years of crappy repairs. The remaining ones are pretty lucky! Plenty of imports about though, and no one seems bothered about running a LHD anymore. I know I looked for a RHD, and paid a grand or more because of that, but really, after driving both, it’s not a big deal at all. (If I was seriously looking for a Citroen, what side the steering wheel was on would not be a consideration.)
A full on restoration project has just gone up for sale, a rare UK 1958 Devon (first year of Devon production). It’s fairly complete but in a bad way. £12,000 – and everyone thinks that is way too cheap!

And if anyone has too much time on their hands, and wants a break from old black and white pornography, this restoration thread on my club forums page is an amazing time killer …
http://www.ssvc.org.uk/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=77632
I didn’t even think this bus was worth parting out! Amazing the lengths people go to on old buses, and I wonder if it sets benchmarks for other marques of cars?
I’m assuming if you got a restoration company to restore your traction, that it would end up costing more than the car was worth at the end of it? I know people get carried away with campers, and sink £40k + in them, when they are only worth £30k at the end of it …

@L.Lewis wrote:

Interesting van you have there, Mike. My brother bought a 66 split window van many years ago from an old, old man who built a camper interior in it. It had a 6-to-12 volt convertor and connected to that was a 12-to-120 volt convertor so he could watch television. 🙄 The 120 volt convertor was grounded to the body of the van! ❗ The T.V. antenna was mounted on a bracket on the passenger side of the van and the antenna was something that you would put on the roof of a house, it looked ridiculous! As soon as we got it home, that came off with a hacksaw. It also would supposedly start on 12 volts as it had 2 six volt batteries for that purpose and would run on 6. Naturally none of that worked and I had the privilege of fixing it all.
Cleaning it out one day, we found some very old black-and-white pornography tucked under a drawer. 😮 I guess he wasn’t a very clean old man. Another thing he showed us was a 1958 Corvette that he bought new and had 24,000 miles on it. Amazing! Another thing that’s amazing is the prices these old VW vans go for these days! One sold at an American auction for $160,000.00 or thereabouts.