Carl & Helen's 67 Split Veronica

by **carl & helen** Tue Mar 08 2011, 14:56

Veronica Wheatywheels or the V-bus for short by Helen & Carl.

Here’s the first instalment of our story. We bought V in 2004 and spent 2 ½ years in the restoration of her. We knew nothing in those days and have learnt loads in the process of getting her back on the road.

Veronica as we found her in 2004 – UK registered RHD tin-top in diamond white & Citroën green. She’s had all her welding done by the previous owner and a fresh coat of paint.
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No engine bay let alone an engine! Just an old bird’s nest nr the petrol tank

No bulk heads, no panels, no interior, just the glass for the windows
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Grinding back & redoing the stone chip layer
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The reconditioned 1641 engine in place
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V-bus on the low loader going to Bridport for interior door cards
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The new door cards by SJ Bowles
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The new leather seats, the fresh coat of pearl white and velvet green, note that the roof has been chopped ready for the Martin Walter dormobile roof
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Carl & Helen's 67 Split Veronica NewseatsJuly05

The nose sprayed with pearl white & pastel white over velvet green, we chose pearl white.
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2009 cleaning the underneath and then putting protection on the underside.
Before:
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After:

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Us doing the dirty work
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More to follow.....

Installation of the twin carbs Dec 2010 - very cold silent

V-Bus going into the work shop
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The engine as it was a 1641 Single carb
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The engine out
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Mr Muscles
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Mr Muscles work – a broken fly wheel nut
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Rob the DJ – kept us all grooving in the cold.
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Carl was very good at cleaning & polishing tinware!
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Winter afternoons turn into night – more light needed
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Right carb needed a bash to get it on
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The oil breather tower in place
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Daz putting the linkage on
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The engine back in
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Fuel pump on left hand side
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Jump starting the engine
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The Rolling Road @ Millway
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Driving onto the rollers
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The readings on the score-board!
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Headley doing his thing
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Thank you once again everybody for your input, advice, experience, patience & fun!

Found some more photos on the Vanshack website of our resto....2004-2006
The new Dormobile roof (found in a ditch!)
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The subframe for the roof
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The bulk heads welded in
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Front nose
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No back engine lid
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New engine lid and wheel hole
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In the workshop
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Reconditioned engine
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Engine going in
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Undercoat of paint
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New coat of Velvet Green & Pearl white
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Safaris fitted
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Fitting the Dormobile interior
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by Liam Tue Mar 08 2011, 17:20

Great pics dont like the look of that dirty work underneath! Helen are you so tired you had to rest your head on a bucket?!?!
Are your interior door handles deleux ones?

by **carl & helen** Wed Mar 09 2011, 08:47

Our handles are not delux, they are just standard chrome handles. The most difficult handle to source was the exterior cargo door. Interior chrome handles also a bit tricky to source but plastic ones easy to find. We will have to look through all our old stuff to see what you can make use of.

The bucket was actually an old potty!! God knows where it came from but it was the perfect hight to rest my head coz my stomach muscles couldn't cope any more - I had toned abs after all that! All gone now mind cyclops

by **Grizzly** Wed Mar 09 2011, 09:47

Great story Helen & Carl

You did forget to put

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before and after the pics, so we can see them without clicking the links I have started amended . . . Very Happy

by Liam Thu Mar 10 2011, 17:34

Great pics love the shots of it on the rollers!
Forgot how cold it was doing the carbs though! Why is it we allways seem to do things on the coldest possible day! Reminds me when we were stripping Dazs bus in the snow!

by **carl & helen** Thu Apr 07 2011, 17:04

Just been browsing on the Vanshack website and managed to lift more photos or our resto story. Seems ages ago now!

by **Grizzly** Thu Apr 07 2011, 18:00

Great pics surprising how much work has gone on there . . .

by **Tone & Linz** Thu Apr 07 2011, 22:57

It's good to see those early pics again C & H!

by Liam Thu Apr 07 2011, 23:25

Grizzly wrote:Great pics surprising how much work has gone on there . . .

Hell yea especialy the bulkheads and roof! I wouldnt have wanted to cut that!

by **carl & helen** Sat Apr 09 2011, 09:55

What Liam not up for doing Dormobile mods then????
Me thinks that you are the reso king now... or will be in 4 years time when you've done the same and completed your soon to arrive split! What a Face

by **Grizzly** Wed Jan 15 2014, 10:14

You mean this one . . . they are all in the general chat page at present ! Very Happy

by **carl & helen** Wed Jan 22 2014, 18:22

Yes thank you, just need to get photobucket to upload my pics of the new engine. Has any one else struggled with photobucket recently....with it failing to load pics.

by **carl & helen** Wed Jan 22 2014, 18:48

The new engine install:
A 1776 engine, with Dell 34 carbs, vintage speed exhaust and a MST serpentine pulley

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Starting the engine for the first time....
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The engine and tinware finally on....
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Many thanks to Owen & Ron for all the elbow grease and manual labour, thanks Daz for the advice as always.
So far she runs lovely, with so much more power. Just need to run her in a bit now at a gentle pace.