Tinware WANTED

Front and rear engine tinware needed for late bay camper. any condition will do as long as its reasonably solid. cheers.

bixit wrote:Front and rear engine tinware needed for late bay camper. any condition will do as long as its reasonably solid. cheers.

You gonna say hello first then??
Is it a type 4 engine or type1??

Sorry, yeah hi ! we're Damo and Joe from Glosvegas.
we've got a '77 bay. can't miss it, it's bright green.
just got myself a new type 1 motor after blowing the old one. but need the tinware to close the engine bay off.

bixit wrote:Sorry, yeah hi ! we're Damo and Joe from Glosvegas.
we've got a '77 bay. can't miss it, it's bright green.
just got myself a new type 1 motor after blowing the old one. but need the tinware to close the engine bay off.

Did you not have any with your old engine?
Did you have a type1 motor before or swapped over from a type4??
Its just if you have swapped over from one to another,the tinware is like rocking horse shit to find

Yeah!!! upgraded from a standard type 1 1600 TP, to a 1914cc MoFoCo engine. and like a muppet, let the tinware go with the old engine not realising that nobody does reproduction versions and its rarer than rare 2nd hand. DOH !!
I'm now thinking about getting some beetle tin and using it as a template, then making up the rest with a cut sheet of tin. leaving the front piece off, and fitting an external oil cooler (and an oil temp sender and gauge).
Not ideal i know, but just cannot get hold of the right pieces of tin at the mo'.

bixit wrote:Yeah!!! upgraded from a standard type 1 1600 TP, to a 1914cc MoFoCo engine. and like a muppet, let the tinware go with the old engine not realising that nobody does reproduction versions and its rarer than rare 2nd hand. DOH !!
I'm now thinking about getting some beetle tin and using it as a template, then making up the rest with a cut sheet of tin. leaving the front piece off, and fitting an external oil cooler (and an oil temp sender and gauge).
Not ideal i know, but just cannot get hold of the right pieces of tin at the mo'.

Ooh tasty mate,ive bought a case to build a 1914,cant see me ever doing it though

Where have you tried mate?
I know its quite hard but i think i remember seein someone doing bus tinware

only stuff we can find is for early bays... pre72..if you do manage find tin for the late bay (i.e. 1977) that wud be great?! as that is now the only thing we need to get her on the road!!! we have literally surf the internet nothin?

ray at bug barn normaly has tim where kicking about . someone will have his number . mite be worth a shout .

I'll stick a post on vizzy
Can you tell me which bits are missing??

Hello Bixit.
Are you based in Abbeymead? If so I use to live at the end of your road.
Love the bus.

someone off vzi has linked me to this
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170443073980&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123

He reckons volksheaven have some but they want premium money for it

Dickie, thanks for the link, I found that on ebay already, it's not the best bit in the world, but a bit of elbow grease and a lick of paint it should be ok. I shall be watching closely and bid last minute if the price isn't stupidly ridiculous me thinks, the bits i need are front and rear tin (bit over the bell housing and bit over the exhaust silencer)
Toastie, thanks for the advice, but I already tried Ray at bugbarn, and he's got nothing at the mo'. but he's only 2 mins up the road from where i work so i'll keep checking with him from time to time.
Egg, yep that's us, was that you at the end of Honeysuckle ??

Yeah thats mine, use to live in the last house before the cycle path. Moved to Stewarts Mill now.
No visor (spelling?) on your advatar pic of your bus. Use to have one didn't you, don't say you got rid looked sweet.

There were two light blue 1303's down Honeysuckle. The other was down the last turning on the right. Opposite our old gaff.

bixit wrote:Dickie, thanks for the link, I found that on ebay already, it's not the best bit in the world, but a bit of elbow grease and a lick of paint it should be ok. I shall be watching closely and bid last minute if the price isn't stupidly ridiculous me thinks, the bits i need are front and rear tin (bit over the bell housing and bit over the exhaust silencer)
Toastie, thanks for the advice, but I already tried Ray at bugbarn, and he's got nothing at the mo'. but he's only 2 mins up the road from where i work so i'll keep checking with him from time to time.
Egg, yep that's us, was that you at the end of Honeysuckle ??

Where do you work dude??
Im working in bredons norton at the moment

Egg, yeah thought that was yours parked on the end of last bunch of houses on the left at the bottom of honeysuckle, yours was the one closest the road i think?? oh, and thats an old pic, we still got the visor on the old girl.
Dickie, I work in Bish Cleeve . Is Bredons Norton out past the army place at ashchurch?