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Campervan Alchemy

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Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010

Teleportation might be a little on the exaggerative side… I think the great big crane thing gives away that there is no actual magic involved!
After yet more stops and starts we were given the five minute warning last night and Donny rushed off with our boy Ocean to hopefully achieve the aim of moving the camper body from one van onto another one.

It is sometimes helpful to know people who know people who have great big lorries with lifts on the back. This combined with a piece of agricultural equipment seemed to meet the needs.

We did wonder whether the camper body, being nearly 40 years old might just buckle under it's own weight, but other than a little bit of bowing there wasn't any problems.

With the camper body in the air the vans could be moved around into place.

A smooth landing later…..

and Silver (what an inspired name…) is born.
There is still some jiggling about to be done, the one side has fitted perfectly against the cab but the other side has a marked gap. Also the fixings to the chassis, which you would hope to be universal on transit 120s, don't all match up so we will have to adjust them somehow. But despite these few things the job has been a success and Donny can go to the Paddle Round the Pier at the beginning of July!

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 22, 2010 at 18:00:53