My FB Van

stevefbvan · Post by **stevefbvan** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:00 pm

Here are some pictures of my FB van I've had for about 2 years. Only done about a weeks wortht of work on it in that time, but a new shed (being built soon)
should make it easier to work on. So far I've cleaned out the inside and painted all the floors and inside of panels with rust primer.
Still a lot of work to go, but is a good mostly rust free base to work with.

Trev · Post by **Trev** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:10 pm

Fixed the pic's Steve, one pic per line

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Looks like a tidy van, whats the plan, Stock or modified? Trev

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Miss Piggy · Post by **Miss Piggy** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 2:49 pm

Looks tidy alright.

I'm going with modified judging by the wheels.

thropzed · Post by **thropzed** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:25 pm

Mate!!! Ya can't buy that Patina!!!!
Cheers Theo Z...............

stevefbvan · Post by **stevefbvan** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:51 pm

G'day,

Plan to keep the body and driveline to stock specs (I have always dreamed of a V8 FB van, but can't bring myself to cut this one up).
Mag wheels from FB/EK member yaprat c/- ebay. I also plan to have a stock set as well.

Good point about patina. My wife nearly divorced me when she saw it. You paid what for that......rusty thing? Told her it wasn't rust but patina.
She is fairly intelligent and accused me of making the word up. She had to check in the dictionary.

Steve

robbyr · Post by **robbyr** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 4:14 pm

Go the vans,love em.

Thommo · Post by **Thommo** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:32 pm

Gday Steve
Your a lucky man to have a van in that good a condition.
The poor old workhorses usually had a pretty rough life.
This one should be a fairly easy resto.
Good luck with it, keep us posted.
Cheers
Jeff

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 5:34 pm

Keep the "patina" Steve.

Save yourself some money and don't paint it.

I love it as is.

Scubbs · Post by **Scubbs** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:53 pm

Congrats the van looks very straight

Paint or Patina itll be a nice ride

Keep us posted

Devilrod · Post by **Devilrod** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 9:57 pm

Side shot Steve! Looks like some fun to be had.

spyder6052 · Post by **spyder6052** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:03 pm

nice

leave it as is

mrs ratbox · Post by **mrs ratbox** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:20 pm

i'll add a little to steve's story that people may not know, remember bob & evelyn ? short FB ring any bells ? that's where steve got the van from and they came from the same property not far from my place

just think if bob & evelyn never got there grotty little hands on them they may very well have been at my place

FB MAD · Post by **FB MAD** » Mon Nov 24, 2008 11:27 pm

Ah yes

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Those two zany characters from that crazy sitcom " The Bob and Evelyn Show " on Ebay channel.

Remember it well

stevefbvan · Post by **stevefbvan** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 9:49 am

Who are Bob and Evelyn? Sounds like an interesting twist to the story I haven't heard yet. The guy I bought it off was named Mick. He got both my van and the shortened coupe from a guy called Megsy (lives near Ratbox) obviously with the intention of making a few bucks on ebay. He basically offloaded the van as soon as he got it home, and was at the stage I got it yet to pick up the coupe.

Steve

EKSPCL · Post by **EKSPCL** » Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:37 pm

Nice van Steve

Keep us posted.
Got any more pics