Geraldine update 2015

Hello All been a long time on update ... Well Geraldine has been a Busy..... She has been on German tv ... Rosamond Pilcher tv serial .... Was great  being involved in the making of a tv program .

It's been about 4 years now since geraldine had her make over ... She still looking great and she will soon be having a rebuild....

A complete body strip down with all new body panels... Also with a new vinyl wrap...!! WAIT AND SEE what her new look will be ...!!!! With a new custom interior... She should be done by mid 2016...!! 

Geraldine our vw camper in all her glory

Geraldine VW Camper having paint put on.............

 Hi all,
Well the big day is here..... Geraldine is having her long awaited paint and lower body wrap !!!!! i am keeping secrete to what graphics are going on the lower section till shes all done...bellow are photos showing the strip down and preparation process...........ENJOY.....

Hear she is as we have all got used to seeing her............all the long hard work over the last year or two in cutting , replacing panel's and welding under side is now paying off............

The last time you will see her like this.......loll

We started by removing the beloved roof rack and all out side trim parts.

Head lights out , wires taped up and wipers removed with new ones ready to go on............

With the pop top canvas removed the hard job began...there was about 30-40 screws all very hard to remove....3 hours later top all of...................

Here we are with the help of Matt.........he is the bud that made this all happen.....cheers Matt

Parts removed............and parts to be used....primer / paint / and yes filler......

You can see the og paint..........red..... when we got Geraldine she was hand painted red............many hours if not weeks of scraping and sanding to get rid of this..........

This is the lower part of the pop top ready for a good clean and some TLC.

As you can see most of the grey primer has come of  ready for a barrier coat of paint then high build primmer.

Sand...filler....sand.....filler.....many more hours....................

The top ready for paint.........YYYAAAAEEEE

masked and lets get some paint on THE BIG DAY...................

Primed then flatted back then primed again...............

And there you have it.........well the top any way........more to follow.,

Look a great shine........me smiling from ear to ear...............keep looking for more photos

colin.

Geraldine our vw camper her move nearer paint and engine up grade............

 Hi all so sorry its been so long again ....................Well were do i start. Since i last updated you all on Geraldine's progress, The vw trimming has kept me so biz I'm finding it hard to give her the attention she deserves......loll. Well the dreaded day happened we Brocky down in a lay bye and yes i had to call the RAC....lovely man.... still we had to wait over 2hrs.............Had contaminated fuel...so once petrol drained and a few cans later we managed to get home....The very next day brake down number two and this time the fuel pump packed up...............Thanks to Justin at RETRODUBS in chacwater NR/ truro came out with a new pump and of i went.....I decided it was time to pull the engine out and give her a well deserved clean and upgrade and replace any parts ready for the summer.......So hear it goes...................

 This some pics Ive also put in to show the finished repaired window surrounds.............all primed ready for some real paint.....loll.

 This is a photo showing the interior coming together...........GREEN   mmmmmmmmmm may be a hint of the paint.....

 Closer photo a few weeks before just after fitting the rock and roll bed.

With the engine out work started on the clean down of the engine bay and with the petrol tank removed this helped me to repair any hiden rust...........

 Wider angle photo showing the painted engine bay area.... looking good.....

 As you can see the engine striped down cleaned and checked for and worn parts...........You can see two new items.....Two inlet manifolds for the reconditioned twin Weber carbs  mmmmm

 The engine looking good.......re painted tim wear and a few chrome bits makes all the difference..............Note the free flowing new exhaust...........

 All done ..............paint and chrome and some performance parts.....

 Engine in with primer all ready now....some more sanding on the sliding door is needed.........

 The primer used is a zinc based primmer, this is a great primer as its not porous like normal primer.....

 The rear of the van.....it needs a new or second hand engine hatch..... its rusted beyond repair.....

 Petrol tank out.....the start of the problems....was bits in the tank.....that was causing all the problems...but all clean now.

 The petrol tank ready to go in the hole you see with all the pipes.

hear you can see the petrol pip neck....this was the problem it was leaking and bits were falling of into the petrol tank.....

 Hear you can see Geraldine having an operation.....well rust cut out and Sam the weld...putting in new metal...........cool

 This is the new metal all in and ready for some filler and primer and as good as new........
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You can see how far we had to cut the metal back to get a good starting place for the new panel....note the holes on the inner wheel arch......all cut out as well and replaced.

So keep looking and i will up date you more often............Cheers
Colin.