After some thought as to how long we want it we finally decided on two additional 'middle' or sliding door length sections. That would make the van around 7m rather than the standard length of 4.5m. We did quite well in finding the three suitable donor vehicles that each had their own little problems and so it didn't feel quite so bad cutting them up! Chris and Sandy have kindly made some space in their nice big concrete floored shed for me to work in. So over the last few months we've cut up the three vans into the sections that we needed, pulled some usable spare parts off the rest and then took the remainder to the scrap metal guy. We are now at the stage where we have all the sections we need inside the shed and removed all the left-over pieces from around the outside of the shed to tidy Chris and Sandy's place up a bit! I suspect that there won't be much progress for a few months after April and so a decent tidy-up was needed before then obviously. The plan at this stage is to have the parts welded together and on wheels so that it can be towed to the VW nationals in hamilton in Easter 2008. That gives me another year to align, cut, weld together and reinforce it. Below are some pics of progress to date.
The above was donor number one, which will be used for the front section, and so was cut just behind the sliding side door.
Donor number two will give us the rear and as a bonus this camper was a factory sunroof van so we will have a nice large sunroof above the front end of the bed to look at the stars at night!
This last one we got really cheap as it already had sunspension and everything stripped out from it. But as we only wanted the middle third (the sliding door length) that was no problem.
Below are pics of each of the vans cut, and the last photo is what we have in Chris and Sandy's shed now. Note that the last photo shows the middle section from the silver van on its end with the underside visible.
And the remainder went to the scrap metal guy in two loads:
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