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General Category => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: greasey monkey on October 14, 2010, 08:24:33 AM
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i recently purchased my first beddy off my good mate mike(WraithKinght) when he upgraded his wheels to an El Grande.
its a lil rough and needs some lovin. its running a Nissan Skyline RB20e six cylinder n auto, ive only got to drive it a couple of times so far as who ever did the conversion on it munted the trans and made a hell of a mess of the wiring loom so its back to square one with her.
since i've had it i have already replaced the trans with a 4spd with overdrive and completely stripped the wiring and purchased a donor R31 skyline thats guna donate its loom,gauges and interior
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another pic plus one of the donor skyline
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were's mike now mate, did he survive the quake ok, i hear they got it pretty bad were he lives
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hi, yea they did get it pretty bad out there, mike and family survied it ok, they were in apart of kaiapoi that wasnt torn up,like the rest of us cantab's he's pretty shaken up bout it.
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tell him stevo was asking after him next time ya talking to him, whats your plan for your beddy? cheers stevo ;D
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Sweet will do, probably will catch up with him today.
Hmm plans for it, sfar its to get it up and running rite so its a driver, am slowly and painfully making my way through a complete rewire
once thats done ive got a bodykit of a jap van that i am slowly cutting and extending to fit.
havent quite made up my mind on the interior yet im not sure if i want to put a bed in the back or turn it into a rolling lounge suite
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looks good, rolling lounge suite i would say, as long as its shagadallic baby ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Back in 99-2000 and 01 b4 ending up in a wheelchair, i would drive my van to work of a day when i was driving forks, i had a bed in the back, so at lunch i would climb in the back with my alarm clock and have a sleep for half hr. Why, well i would finish work at 1500hrs, and deliver pizzas from 1700hrs till 2100hrs and then go and do security work fom 2200hrs till about 0500hrs then back to driving forks from 0700hrs, my beddy bed got used a lot, and now you know how i bought and paid for the custom work on my van. Man i miss those days.
george.
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you used to work a lot george.
i used to work 3 jobs..
but over that now.
just want one really good business then ill just work with that.
ben
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I did that George, supermarket in morn. mechanic at day and cleaned a school at night... cracked it one day and walked out on all.... bought farm couple months later no morgage and no stress .... never again :'( :-\
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looks good, rolling lounge suite i would say, as long as its shagadallic baby ;D ;D ;D ;D
Definetly thats the plan ae. 8) ;)
Dam some of you guys work'd some serious hours in the past, n i thought havin two part time jobs was hard enough
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Rolling lounge or bed? Why not both? My travelling Beddy back in the 90's (now sadly in beddy heaven in the NT) had a setup that delivered the goods I think. Gallery page 5, Banksx2, Bedford the First album, Annexe Kitchen pic.
The couch you'll see ran along the driver's side and the back of the van giving an L-shaped lounge, then simply pulled out for a seamless queen-width bed that I had to shorten a little to fit the fridge in. I slept on the passenger side and my feet hung over by a few inches - they did that at mates places (avoiding DUI), outside and behind pubs (same), at roadside stops (too knackered to drive further) and (luxury) caravan parks on a round Oz trip. Comfortable as if you go to Clark rubber for the mattress. Storage for blankets/sleeping bags/pillows was at the rear and you pulled them out before pulling out the bed. Still left room for tools/trolley jack/jerry can/spares.
The wood you can see underneath the couch was a big pull-out drawer that we used as a fold-the-clothes-flat wardrobe.
The design and mechanics of the lounge/bed is simple and I can sketch it out if you're interested. I'll put better pics in the gallery as soon as I can find the buggers - several house moves and being flooded out once in Darwin have taken their toll on what I can post!
Cheers,
Garry ;D
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wow garry, that definetly looks like it was an awesome set up to get around with.
i am very interested to have a look at a sketch of the design and mechanics of how you had it set up
Cheers
Scott
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Still a bit of a newbie as to uploads and couldn't do what I wanted - go to the "lounge/bed" entry in my gallery and click on " Download Document" to see the quickie plan I did in Excel. Any queries I will be more than happy explain.
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Still a bit of a newbie as to uploads and couldn't do what I wanted - go to the "lounge/bed" entry in my gallery and click on " Download Document" to see the quickie plan I did in Excel. Any queries I will be more than happy explain.
Thanks for the sketch Garry, had a look at the document, definetly a sweet set up you had, going to have to incorparte some of the design into my van.