DavidRutherford wrote:ooOOoo! get you with your three-figure-horsepower van!
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
So did I! I still think I got it for a good price, £600 and something including a caravan (which we lived in for 6 months!) and it had 12 months MOT (ha ha, for what it was worth!) and 6 months tax.Tim Leech wrote:thougt they were more rust resistant than that!
Anyway, here are a few more photos of work in progress.
![Image](https://bxclub.co.uk/forum/images/ext/de93c256d0ae63b13904bb0cef90059f.jpg)
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I was fortunate that once I had cut back to good metal, what was left was fairly thick. Which meant that I could butt weld in a new section with very little distortion. To be honest there is a little, but flat enough (given the rest of the van!) not to require anything more that a quick grind over and a lick of paint.
![Image](https://bxclub.co.uk/forum/images/ext/9c633432abe60a745f457e9aa3f11702.jpg)
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There's a bit of a story with this particular panel, the dealer local to me could only (after a 6 week wait) get hold of the offside version and told me that the nearside was unobtainable. By chance I happened to pop into a VW Van Centre in Birmingham who had one on the shelf, so I bought it there and then!
![Image](https://bxclub.co.uk/forum/images/ext/7ac9bec461b40f55e615d56dd3d50d09.jpg)
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I alway use galvanised sheet for repairs, hopefully keep the rust at bay for a little longer...
![Image](https://bxclub.co.uk/forum/images/ext/ce8d1633e5e20252c3ad9a41d11d525c.jpg)
Feeling like I am on the home straight now! But I still had an interior to fit - the above photo was taken on the Wednesday night, and we were due to go away in it on Friday afternoon...