It’s been a little while, but here we are.  A little progress report on how Blooie Scampette, our VW T4 Transporter is getting on.

The conversion project taking Blooie from work-horse van, to leisure vehicle is leaping forward.  At the same time it is taking over our apartment and making us a little bit crazy!  Just keep thinking, camping trips, camping trips, camping trips… BBQ’s and wine, BBQ’s and wine, BBQ’s and wine…

 

Our roadside workshop has still been keeping locals and holiday-makers entertained, and Chamonix is VERY busy at the moment.  We get regular visitors to Blooie’s sliding door, checking on progress and wondering how long until the ‘van warming party’ we have excitedly planned.

 

Progress so far includes, bolting in the cupboards, fitting the side step, finishing off the carpeting, sealing the underbelly from rust and corrosion and reconnecting all the lights – nothing very exciting to photograph, but here are a few.  (a picture of me covered head to toe in black underseal crawling out from under the van would have been a good one.   Oh, we should have taken it!)

Ben has stormed ahead with van work while I’ve been catching up with Head Full of Feathers custom orders.  He’s been an unstoppable machine!  I do think, however, that if he was told he had to paint another cupboard door green, he might be safer contained in a padded room!  Ballz has been easing the workload, he wants to get out on the road soon.  He gets paid in bananas, so he’s pretty cheap labor.

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