1974 Bay Campervan (Tin top)

I just recently bought this beauty from Ebay for only 720 quid. Doesnt look much in the pictures but this bus is about 95% complete, ie all doors are supplied, all windows, Bumpers, Pannels, The engine also came with it but is a non runner. This has been dry stored for 8 years and this definatly shown by the lack of rot. The small sections that it did have in the rear wheel arches, and rear floor pan are cut out ready to be re welded. I also noticed that there is no filler and that the pannels and bottoms of the doors are solid and straight as a die.

Anyone know what needs to be changed to make it RHD, I also would like to change it from a Q plate to a "74 L Reg... Is it possible.

cant be that hard???

looks good

if you look at the floor in the cab you can see that the floors are universal, have the pattern stamped on, steering box will have to be altered/changed and a right hand dash board.

your last pic just poped up of the floor and looks like im wrong , on my rhd crew cab you could see the layout on the left hand side??

from what littlie info i know about bays, lol....

as said, u can swap the bits over on the floor, or buy 2 x new floor sections, a rhd drivers side, and a rhd left side.....

urm, as for dash, teh inserts for guages etc and glovebox are interchangeable, so shouldnt be difficult, just a matter of swapping them over, and maybe extending a few wires??

then you may want a rhd speedo cable? if theya re different...

and you'll deffo deffo need a rhd steering box, the column will no doubt be the same, but the gearstick may be different? depends if its cranked towards the driver or not???

Cheers for the advice guys, so dont look difficult at all then, I didnt know if there would be any cutting any welding etc on the body/chassis involved. I wondered if it being a LHD it would be more to insure????

i didnt find the insurance a problem on my lhd drive split, but i know a few people have found it costs a little more??

the gearstick i think will stay same as i think it's straight up, the instuments on the dash gets swapped over but i can help you out on a rhd drive set if you went a head , as rixy said the wires will need to be longer, even the fuse box might need to be moved?? alot of work though

also ive got a set of bay bumpers if you need any??

Blacky wrote:

also ive got a set of bay bumpers if you need any??

Cheers for that Blacky, defo wana go ahead with it, maybe we can all get together when the times right and give it a bash hey . Got a set of bumpers with it, although they are early bay bumpers and not the Europa style.

i was speaking to steve earlier about this, and he says the steering shouldnt be a problem, new box probably, but column should be the same??

as for everything else, its easily do able :-)

woohoo - this bus is now my bus :-)

Rixy wrote:

woohoo - this bus is now my bus :-)

Have fun with it dude...

i will indeed....hopefully got some panel comin back from wales this weekend for it :-)

Rixy wrote:

i will indeed....hopefully got some panel comin back from wales this weekend for it :-)

Bloody hell, crack on...

check out the progress :-)

http://ec-dc.editboard.com/aircooled-chat-f27/our-new-bay-camper-project--t2584.htm

Q plate, Write tp wolfsburgh factory museum in germany to request what is essentially the birth certificate for the vehicle. This provides proof of age and date of manufacture - I believe that the DVLA are able to give an age related plate with this evidence, well they used to 10 years back I'm pretty sure.

Just collect the numbers off your vehicle and check they match your document n'all.

J.

mustard wrote:

Q plate, Write tp wolfsburgh factory museum in germany to request what is essentially the birth certificate for the vehicle. This provides proof of age and date of manufacture - I believe that the DVLA are able to give an age related plate with this evidence, well they used to 10 years back I'm pretty sure.

Just collect the numbers off your vehicle and check they match your document n'all.

J.

i think Ryan has already done this???

lol, no worries. skipped through the posts fairly quick so didn't see.

yeah man, tis done...just not sure how to get in touch with the dvla to get it changed? does the van need to be mot'd to change it (as they do for private plates etc?)

Any info you can help me with would be ace...the birth certificate is here, showing age, orig eninge number and optional extra's and what not.....just need to get hold of the dvla...

I cant find anywhere on their site that lists a phone number, or anything, just says to go into a branch? im guessing the nearest is in norwich?

yeh im pritty sure it will need to be mot'd