We have had the Caravan home for a while now, it has been at the beach for about 8 years and really needed some TLC. Almost every fine day over the past 3 months or so has been spent working on the Caravan, weekends/after work weather permitting, being an out door project.
All that is needed now is for the stabilizers/jockey wheel and spare wheel brace to be cut off, new stabilizers put on and it's job done. Getting the welding done has been the biggest set back with at least 6 people not overly keen to do it. We finally have someone set to do it (for a box of beers) after we get back from the Cape ride.
Taking the black stripes off the side was an effort, needed heat.
Ripped out all the black external trim and painted the track silver.
The original list of things to do grew and grew and have yet to total up the cost but it's been worth it, plus I got me some new tools! Mitre10 Mega did really well out of us, and the staff were amazingly helpful.
The Caravan is a 1976 Liteweight Five Star
It was carpeted with just a small bit of vinyl in the kitchen area, that's all gone and replaced with a non slip vinyl throughout, curtains have been replaced as has the roman blind with a black venetian blind. I made new magnetic insect screens for a couple of window and the roof vents, painted all the cupboard handles because new ones would not quite fit the existing holes. We got rid of the 3 way fridge/2 burner gas cooker and bought a new fridge that fits perfectly in the gap. Cooking is done outside anyway. Had a plug put on the old 3 way fridge and use it as a beer fridge in the awning.
The carpet arrived today, just needed a mat in the lounge area.
It got to the stage that everything I touched, something else needed to done, but apart from the feet, it's done!
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Originally Posted by Blackbird
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