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General Category => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: taggraphx on May 28, 2012, 08:23:57 AM
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Hi everybody, my name is Graham, some of you early vanners might rember the van I built and showed, Moonlight Dreamer, that was back in 77-88, found your great site while doing some reserch on the bedfords, I am thinking of a starting a new project using a bedford, I have allways wanted to do one up, heaps of room to go wild with my airbrush, I dont have one yet, just started looking so any help would be greatly appreciated, looking forward to getting back into vanning againe, its been 25 years and its good to see some of the old vans are still aroud.
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hi graham welcome to buga ;)
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Hey welcome aboard Graham... ;D Good to see that the beddie bug is biting again. If you can ,throw up some pics of your old show van for us here.... ::) ::)
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Hi everybody, my name is Graham, some of you early vanners might rember the van I built and showed, Moonlight Dreamer, that was back in 77-88, found your great site while doing some reserch on the bedfords, I am thinking of a starting a new project using a bedford, I have allways wanted to do one up, heaps of room to go wild with my airbrush, I dont have one yet, just started looking so any help would be greatly appreciated, looking forward to getting back into vanning againe, its been 25 years and its good to see some of the old vans are still aroud.
Welcome back to vanning Graham, l still own the van l brought from you back in Janurary 1987 but its changed alot
cheers Monk (Peter)
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Hi Pete, well if I do start this project it proberly wont be as wild as the MD, but thats what I said to my self back in 77 and look what hapened, so who knows, we shall see, one thing is for sure is my skill level and taste has changed and I realy miss all those good times and friendships, I also need somthing big for the 3 great danes we have lol
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there are still alot of us old vanners around, still get around the shows & see old friends
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you got pics of your old van mate
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sure do but I think some of the best pics are in the first issue of Vantastic magazine, there is a 7 page article done just before I sold it to Monk, who is on this curent post with a picture of the HK Holden as his avatar. Now I have moved on and looking forward to doing up a bedi, dying to get the airbrushes out again, designs have just about been done, just need the van, maybe I will call it Moonlight Dreamer 2 lol, just joking Pete, this van will have no name, nothing wrong with names, just my personal choice this time
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a wise old man once said to me ..... i think it was something like 1% of vanners will always be vanners and surround themselves in the van scene, van clubs and the like,these are what you call true vanners as it's not all about the van, it's the comradery the company the good times and the memories. How many vanners do you know that are still involved in the van scene and how many went on to the hot rod scene?
welcome aboard Graham youv'e now found a second home, seee you somewhere, sometime at the not too distant van nats ... one day.
Dano.
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Thanks for the welcome Dano, your dead right, its not the shows I miss its the people and the good times, I am sure we will bump in to each other one day
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hey Graham Welcome to bug land ;)
.....ahh like me, once ur infected with the CF bedford virus it comes back after yrs sittin dormant ;D
will be nice to see what u can do with an airbrush too!
so what part of OZ do u reside? ebay has had a good flow of beddies along with gumtree!
r u after a SWB or jumbo?
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Thanks for the welcome Wendyh, I live in the gippsland area of Victoria, came very close to buying the one on ebay for $3000 two days ago, missed out because I wanted to see it first and could not get there till the weekend, it was a good buy and price for what you got, never mind it just wasnt ment to be this time, the right one will come, it only needs to be a rolling shell, I am used to starting from scratch, would prefer a SWB
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ahhh buga another mexican! ;D ;D ;D
boy the beddie virus is infecting u lot down there! at least the Victorian guys get organised sometimes n have a weekend away...trying to round up the nsw guys is trying to heard a mob of browns cows.. ::)
anyway thanx for the repy..and good luck beddie hunting! remebr to post heaps of pics for us all. ;)
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Thanks for the welcome Wendyh, I live in the gippsland area of Victoria, came very close to buying the one on ebay for $3000 two days ago, missed out because I wanted to see it first and could not get there till the weekend, it was a good buy and price for what you got, never mind it just wasnt ment to be this time, the right one will come, it only needs to be a rolling shell, I am used to starting from scratch, would prefer a SWB
If you're in Gippsland, get in touch with Ben, he has a few.. are you after a standard or custom Bedford? Also, with 3 Great Danes, will a SWB be big enough?!
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Thanks for that, rang Ben on Monday and might be doing somthing soon, not realy bothered if its custom or not, either way it will be changed. The van will be great for the danes, we curently use a crewman with a canopy and thats a bit of a squeeze, its amazing how small they can get when they want to sit on your knee when watching tv, they are a great lap dog, you just need a big lap ;D