The 1959 Ford Thames campervan restoration begins.

mumkin wrote:

kev wrote:
This is the last, yes thats right, the last rust section to repair on the body.

Hooray!! It's been a long process. Do you have any idea of how many hours you have in so far?

Mmmhmm, i havent kept track but id say over the last 3 years ive spent about 1500 hours easy. Wow, when i put it like that, thats a lot of my life.

June part 2

Ive been busy this weekend. I really wanted to get this stage over so i was determined to get it all done.

With the body finished i started to prepare the shell for the primer.



Quite a bit to get it ready.





I went to my work and borrowed the D/A sander and smoothed down a lot of the inside. I used a combination of sander/wire-brush/wire-wheel and polyabrasive discs.





I then went over all the bare metal with the acid to eat any leftover pitted rust and then loads of water followed my degreaser.





Then the bit i have been waiting ages to do, the primer! I even bought myself a mid-range spray gun for it. Need to stop borrowing the works stuff so often. I used up the remaining litre and a half i had left.

















And one with your handsome host ;)



Now i am happy. Now that the primer has been applied on the whole body i feel that this chapter has ended for me. Phew, what a relief. I look forward to starting on the suspension.