Nate's long term project #4 - 1970 VW Camper

[natedog]

bought this off a customer on the side of the M4





with pop top...


that "comfortably" sleeps 2, as modelled by Tim


wheezy lawnmower engine had got so hot when the belt went that the heads had started melting


i bought a rebuilt engine, then fitted new ancilliaries to it (old ones got sold with the old engine to an ebay idiot for the same as i paid for the new engine) and i then drove it into work coz the lads didn't believe i'd got it running. i then drove it home, parked it up and decided that it was dangerously underpowered for modern roads. it will be getting a 2 litre 8v from a golf or passat when i get round to it. and i don't care that purists would have me hung for converting it to a water pumper!

[mattsbeamer]

There is a local company to me in Uckfield who restores these, then rents them out for holiday camping trips. They sold one for over the £30k mark, i was shocked. I have never driven one or even been in one, but did find them on the playstation game gt5 a good laugh on the topgear test track lol.

Would be interesting to see one with a r32 engine, at the lights lol

[Monkey]

My landlords got a 60s Australian spec split screen pick up and a 70s bay window camper. VW scrap.

If i won the lottery id spend the lot on buying them all up and weighing the lot in. Sweaty flymo powered crap.

No offence Natedog ;D

Worth a shed load of money though..

[natedog]

I can't wait to get rid if the lawnmower engine and get something decent in there.

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[Noberator]

Nov 24, 2012 14:51:46 GMT 1 mattsbeamer said:

There is a local company to me in Uckfield who restores these, then rents them out for holiday camping trips. They sold one for over the £30k mark, i was shocked. I have never driven one or even been in one, but did find them on the playstation game gt5 a good laugh on the topgear test track lol.

Would be interesting to see one with a r32 engine, at the lights lol

Herbie rides again. ;D

[Monkey]

Nov 24, 2012 21:04:33 GMT 1 natedog said:

I can't wait to get rid if the lawnmower engine and get something decent in there.

Subaru boxer engine

[natedog]

Subaru engine in these has been done to death. When I was in my teens, me and my bro wrote an.article for volksworld mag "how to convert a 1300 beetle to 3.5v8" but they didn't print it. I think opening with "first remove the wheezy lawnmower engine and throw it away" probably didn't help.

But a rover v8 would go nicely in a bus

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