cool it worked
Alright. Pics are a go.
Ive unfortunately erased all the pics of the conversion process up to this point and i know how you all are about pics..lol. hopefully the back story will fill in some blanks, so here goes;
I aquired the bus about a year ago from a friend who needed help with awrecking yard that had been passed onto him when his dad died..the bank was taking the land back and he needed to make what he could off of the 150 or so wrecked cars that remained.. he worked out of town so he needed someone to watch the yard, feed the dogs, overseethe crush and sell whatever possible.. it was pretty time consuming so i ended up looking for stuff to take in trade instead, thats when the bus caught my eye..
It had been left at the yard by a guy who got caught driving with no insurance and decided to just leave it.. fast forward acouple years and it was sunken into the ground where it sat and ready to be claimed by me..
The previous owner had begun a conversion by taking a couple seats out and filling it with camping and fishing gear.. a couple uears outside with broken windows filled the rest with dirt..
After a lengthy cleaning out process i had an empty vessel to convert.. fortunately i found this site around then and got to see what other people had built..that was a definiteadvantage.. another advantage i had was an entire wrecking yard to pick conversion stuff from, most importantly a2004 ambulance that had crashed just hard enough to bend the frame after only a year or so of service.. it was easily the most well-built vehicle in the whole yard.
After finding some Allure Trafficmaster flooring sitting in the office i laid a nice floor down and got to work on a layout, which, as you all know, is completly different on paper than it is on the bus.. my layout ended up being dictated by the fact that im a pretty big guy with two old cats.. theres two areas that just require as much room as they require and cant be scaled down; where you take your boots off and where the litter box is. I also need at least a double bed, and a real bed at that..oh and a wood heater...
My sink\icebox combo is from a '68 vw westfalia, oven/stove out of a little trailor, kitchen counter from a winnebego, bed platform and large plastic water tank under bed from a bounder motorhome.. pretty much everything else is out of the ambulance.
Drivers captains chair, aluminum divider and shelf, numerous aluminum cabinets, leather trim\seats, rear bumper/step, variousinterior and exterior lights, 1000 watt fleet power inverter/charger... needless to say the ambulance was a big help
