My BJ71 testauration project

[Camperboy Belgium]

I'f got a '89 BJ71 13bt wich has been badly restaurated.
They welded over the corrosion, used foam tho fill the hollow panels and beams...
You can guess in witch state she is for the moment...

Last winter i bought a donor body en had it sandblasted, afterworths i send to a bodyshop to weld news flares in it,it toke about 80 man ouhers to compleet it... Using no poyestyer filler, only brass!!!
Now i am preparing myself to swap the body, but first i have to prepare the donor doors and other stuff
Pic's on my Facebook account;

restauratie BJ 71 | Facebook

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

Pics from the results of my accident

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

The body was in a poor condition, thanks to the collision i coud see the bad retauration they have done...
So i searched a repleacement body and found a dutch body with fiberglas hood on it! (ugly!!)

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

Before i hat it sandblasted i removed al the corrodated bodywork , (not much te remove, was nothing left )
so the sandblaster could reach the platework underneath...

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

Back from the sandblaster!

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

So i send her to the local bodywork shop and this how she came back! Little different is'nt it??

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

I was hoping tho do everthing whitin 3 weeks, but i was a little bit to enthousiastic. I ripped out my interior en my dash, so i could quikly begin the build-off of my old body, now i have to wait for my next holiday to resume the works like this... Cosy is not the right word for it!

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

So what do i doo so far; de-rusted my door ...

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

Little backdoor



opend up the roof foor a bigger canvas roof



Flattend the rooftop so the canvasroof fit's

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

This is gonna be the roof top, its from a renault twingo (tiny french car)



Here i schrinked the reinforcements on the rooftop

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

the result at this moment...







I'll keep you informed over the further development of the restauration...

Greetings Camperboy

 

[Michael Hanson]

Welcome, thats alot of work! Nice pictures. MIke

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

Thanks! Indeed a lot of work... A bit to much for the moment... It consumes every bit of speare time for the moment and my wife is not verry happy with it... I can't blame her, al the noise en smell from the paint etc...
I hope that my english is a little bit readeble?? I never had classes english...
I'm learning as whe speak...

Lode (same as Louis or Ludwig...)

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

@ mod's, can you change the title of my topic please?
With my thick fingers i have missed a button and typed testauration instead of restauration...

Thanks!

 

[Squash]

Kind of fits....you need balls to undertake restoration.

Keep the updates coming.

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

Kind of fits....you need balls to undertake restoration.

Keep the updates coming.

THX, will do that!
Call me a (LC) crazy belgian, but i'm to far of to quit now...
So far it costed me about 3000€ (don't now how many it is in dollars,guess about 4500 or more?) and the end is near!
Every step i make is one less to take...

 

[Camperboy Belgium]

...you need balls to undertake restoration....

It's easyer to restorate a BJ than handle my wife...