The Beddie's Now In Brisbane

[doofhard]

I stand by by guess.

[MAYMANN]

Oh wow, not even close.
I picked it up for $1,800 and spent another $150 for a tow truck up to Brissie.
I know that now is when the real spending starts, but given how clean the body shouldnt be too much of a hassle.
I think that i'll spend way more in rego, mod plates, road worthy etc then I did on the actual van, I'm certainly not complaining tho.

[ben]

waow what a flippen bargin!!! well done..

[eddy]

ummph ummmph (sound of envy!!!)

[Jock]

Going by the photos in your gallery, that is a very good buy Maymann!!! 

[Tweaker]

Wow Maymann!!!!! What a price!!!!!!!!!!! If you were given no engineers Cirts with van you'll wanna get some. And not just for the motor brakes and exhaust. you'll need some for the seats dash and collum also. Shouldn't cost too much though if the work was done well. Great to see the collum was added with the dash it looks great! I haven't got the glove box in mine because that's where my aircon is fitted, but I'm looking at changing that at some stage and adding the gbox to complete the dash. Can't wait to see your van for real. You gonna make it to the Brissi meet up?

Hey Ben you've probably noticed that the GTS dash is a couple of inches narrower than the Bedford, so if you center the dash you won't see the tacho as it'll be behind the steering wheel because all the instruments will sit over to the left.

From memory my last engineers report which was for my seats cost me $175. Don't know if that's good or bad but I was pretty happy!

I have to say again that that is a top van!  What a score!   

[ben]

175 sounds really god for me ay..

for a motor down here in vic i recall $700 starting price hey.. expensive..

yeh i knew it would not be wide enough but i didnt know that the tacho would be over the steering colum if centred cheers for that..

have you get the same setup in your van tweaker? if so did you have to cut into the body behind the bedford dash to make it fit good or did you just go over it?

cheers
ben

[Tweaker]

Hi Ben,
I'll post some pics of my setup into my gallery for ya. And yes I have the same, but mine started out as a HX Statesman dash. You'll see the transformation from Statesman to GTS in my photos (when they go up). I've cut my dash in 2 places and extended it so it reaches all the way accross the Bedford. It's not quite finshed but when it's done it'll look like a long HZ GTS dash. The way mine was done was to cut out the front of the Statesman (bit under windscreen) and weld it into the Bedford. That way you just connect up the dash as you would originally into the Statesman. Makes it easy and looks great. I've seen a few done, but non others with the front section from under the widscreen fitted. You'll notice that I have 5 windscreen vents. 3 original Beddy and 2 Holden..... and the old speaker grill.

You will also see that the whole dash does sit too far over to the left. Which was no real problem when the dash was Statesman, but when I changed to GTS I had to make the move so I could see all the guages and the left indicator.

I'll take some photos of a local Bedford trayback with a complete GTS dash fitted and post if the owner don't mind........ I've been eyeing this off for 10 years, it's a nice machine.

Hey Maymann got any pics of the section under the windscreen for us? Between the windscreen and dash pad that is.

Cheers!

[ben]

cool thanks
ben

[MAYMANN]

Hey guys, thought it was about time I made an update.
Here's some photos I took of the last visit to old mate panel beater.
I got all the accesseries together, wheel flares, mirrors, side steps and  bubble windows that I got from Arron.
Still working on the handles, big thanks to Jock for that and all in all shes still a work in progress.
Should be getting painted this week then back to the mechanic for road worthing and certs.
I'll try to keep updating as I go.