First Project Year in Review

It is hard to believe that we have been working on this project for a year already. Before we started (or is that, before we found the rust) we thought it would take us 9 months.

Our plans has changed a lot since then. The project is no longer a quick, but nice, conversion. Now it is a monster of a project and at the end we'll have a super motorhome.

ORIGINAL PLAN

Remove seats
Clean inside and re-skin inside
New windows as the old windows could not be opened
Seal roof (make water tight)
Clean/repaint outside skin
Fit-out into nice motorhome
Valued at about $200,000 completed

Duration: about 9 months part-time

ACTUAL PLAN

Remove seats
Remove inside skin
Remove outside skin
Remove floor boards
Remove roof skin
Remove rear frame
Remove front frame
Remove/repair all rust from frame
Raise roof
Centre door
Reshape rear (more room/modern look) (for our needs as bedroom)
Reshape front (lots more window area! and modern look)
Use latest model front and rear fibreglass headers.
Use one piece fibreglass roof skin
Glue all outside skin on. No pop-rivets. (Major contributor to rust issue)
New 19mm 'marine' type ply floor boards.
Latest technology in electronics (some we still need to invent ;-) for lights, solar, air bag suspension control, resource management, satellite (GPS) navigation. Maybe satellite TV, phone, and internet.
Fit-out into super motorhome (Captain seats, handmade wood furniture, etc...)
Seats and sleeps 8 people. (2 on queen bed, 2 bunk beds, 2 on fold-down couch, 2 on lowered dinette table)
Valued at about $350,000 to $400,000 completed