My FB Van

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:06 pm

can't exactly remember where bob and evelyn come into it whether it was an ebay name or something or if they bought it off the guy you got the van off i think oldnek knows some more
i was more just pointing out the fact of where the van came from and the car it came with

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 10:12 pm

Bob and Evelyn was the rusted FB coupe seller's ebay usernames.

stevefbvan · Post by **stevefbvan** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:41 am

Thanks Trev for fixing up my first attempt at loading photos. I'll give it another go and see if it works. First 2 photos are when I picked up the van.
Being just a shell it was loaded on a pallet and put on the trailer with a forklift. To get it off at home was very tricky.
I had to park the trailer where I wanted the van, attached chain from the rear spring hangers around a tree and drove the trailer slowly forward.
Had the van on rolling floor jacks so as not to srape the underbelly and had to position support underneath it as it came off the trailer.
Not a job you'd want to do everyday. The last photo is of the inside before I started work.

Steve

parisian62 · Post by **parisian62** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 4:09 pm

Nice work on the van Steve. Whereabouts did you find it?

stevefbvan · Post by **stevefbvan** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:06 pm

Found the van on ebay about 2 years ago. In fact it was my first ebay purchase. My wife had a grudge against ebay for some time after that

She's come around now. She likes the idea that one day we will be able to cart our St Bernard dog around in the back

Steve

thropzed · Post by **thropzed** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 5:17 pm

Hey Steve, Thats not all ya can do in the back of a Van!!!
Cheers Theo Z...................

dave68 · Post by **dave68** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 6:35 pm

How many kids you got Theo

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:46 pm

Steve, you need a horse trailer for a St Bernard...... they're HUGE

parisian62 · Post by **parisian62** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 9:50 pm

Steve, I should have said where was the van located...? Central west somewhere? Orange, Bathurst?...I'm guessing...

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Wed Nov 26, 2008 10:12 pm

it came from near me (shame i didn't find it first

) i live at woodstock near cowra it was out towards wyangla dam, a guy from the south coast end up with it and sold it to steve

stevefbvan · Post by **stevefbvan** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:47 am

Ratbox is right, I bought it from a guy at Ulladulla who had had just picked it up from the property between Wyangla Dam and Cowra.

I took a day trip out and saw the old guy who had previously owned it in the hope that he might have some more parts for it. He still had the driver's door trim (the left one was on the car when I bought it) and the rear van springs.

He showed me the spot where it had sat in the paddock since about 1980!! It must be incredibly dry out there. I can't beleive a car could sit out in the weather so long and not completely rust away.

Steve

thropzed · Post by **thropzed** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:16 am

Dave68, I've only got three, But the Van's on the market, so I think we'll stick with three.
Cheers Theo Z.....................

parisian62 · Post by **parisian62** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:10 pm

in the open since 1980...thats one benefit being drought prone...slows the rust down...

my central west guess wasnt too far off...

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:34 pm

it was pretty much spot on

pretty much all the cars i've come across out here there biggest problem is floors, back in the day gravel roads that basically sand blast the floor add some moisture recipe for disaster

rustysdungers · Post by **rustysdungers** » Sat May 23, 2009 6:05 pm

G'day mate I'm a local I will be on the look out for this around, if you need help with her let me know
Cheers Rusty

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