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Terry

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Spotted one like this :thumb:
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Thoughts on making it into a self- build ?:winky: Fill in a few windows. rip everything out and start from scratch :thumb:
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Not a whole lot of miles and it should have been maintained by the book or better. Sounds a good plan.
 
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I have found one at half price,:thumb: looks tidier from the pics,:thumb: but almost double the mileage :Doh:
3.9 ton should be fine :thumb: my present one comes in just under 3 . 5 ton fully laden but she is 4.2 t ::bigsmile:
Only thing is it is a 2.5 and not 2.8 but there are the same Soffin engines which are good for 400,000 miles plus if fed and watered regularly :thumb:
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Persuading SWMBO that we need a newer van is going to be the hard bit,converting it will be easy after that !
 
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Go for it mate! 2.5 is Ok if you know how to use your g/box. That has always been my dream to convert a bus, nothing like a Leyland or such, just a Merc "hopper type" bus a 24 seater maybe!
Ho Hummm! Mrs R ( who knows where all the dosh is hidden) has still to come round to the idea! Iwish you well!!
 
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I was referring to the typo in the advert :roflmto:

3.9KG

:ROFLMAO: never noticed :thumb::ROFLMAO: took me all my time to find one like the one I have found, without giving out where it is :Eeek: Need a couple of weeks to persuade the boss :thumb: At the moment she is adamant that
1 she likes what we have
2 she does not want the mess and hassle on the drive :ROFLMAO:
3 she says we need to get rid of ours first :thumb: but she will not let me sell it :Doh:
4 she keeps going back to 1 :ROFLMAO:
terry
I want to do another because I am bored :ROFLMAO:
 
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Mate!!! we're married to the same woman! The excuses are the same!


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At the moment she is adamant that
1 she likes what we have
2 she does not want the mess and hassle on the drive :ROFLMAO:
3 she says we need to get rid of ours first :thumb: but she will not let me sell it :Doh:
4 she keeps going back to 1 :ROFLMAO:
terry
I want to do another because I am bored :ROFLMAO:

Rearrange into a well known phrase or saying: POO DEEP

For goodness sakes don't say it's because you are bored.

Surely we can do better ?

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isn't this the van that the winnibago rialta is based on, if so they are a rust bucket.

The Winnebago Rialta is based on the Volkswagen Transporter T4 and not the Renault Master that is in the Ebay ad :Smile:

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:ROFLMAO: I do not tell her I am bored :Eeek: that's just asking to decorate or do the garden :Eeek::Sad:The problem I have is that the other one still suits our needs down to the ground :thumb: Nothing needs renewing or changing :ROFLMAO: It is just me wanting to get a new toy :thumb: and her saying we don't need one :Angry::Sad:So now it is a case of convincing her that we have to get one or start loosing money on the one we have :ROFLMAO::winky:Unfortunately I am not winning this argument at the moment :ROFLMAO::Sad:
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Dearest, I have been so lucky to have you in my life and feel the need to do something to prove to you that I am man enough and worthy enough to be the man you deserve..... I need to build monuments in your honour .. I need to climb mountains as yet undiscovered in the deep Hymalayas ... I need to carry you upstairs and make mad deep passionate love to you over and over again..... if you do not let me rid myself of this obssession to build a ... whatever it was you said.

By the time you get to passionate love to you I feel that you may just be given permission to go out and build it. Good luck.:thumb:
 
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Dearest, I have been so lucky to have you in my life and feel the need to do something to prove to you that I am man enough and worthy enough to be the man you deserve..... I need to build monuments in your honour .. I need to climb mountains as yet undiscovered in the deep Hymalayas ... I need to carry you upstairs and make mad deep passionate love to you over and over again..... if you do not let me rid myself of this obssession to build a ... whatever it was you said.

By the time you get to passionate love to you I feel that you may just be given permission to go out and build it. Good luck.:thumb:

Been married for 32 years (the other day ) that will not wash :ROFLMAO: even tried to say I would build it for our anniversary :thumb: :Doh: still did not wash either :cry:
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There you go terry, you should not have made such a good job of present one.

You missed one important detail when you built it, you should have thought like a commercial builder and built in planned obsolescence.

Then you would have had an excuse to build another, the more up to date improved version.


Dave :thumb::thumb:
 
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There you go terry, you should not have made such a good job of present one.

You missed one important detail when you built it, you should have thought like a commercial builder and built in planned obsolescence.

Then you would have had an excuse to build another, the more up to date improved version.


Dave :thumb::thumb:

:Doh: Always knew I did something wrong :winky::ROFLMAO:
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