#42 - Okay, so we’ve been away.
We’ve been away for a really long time.
And for this, we can only beg your forgiveness, although we suspect that we have missed you more than you’ve missed us. But finally, after weeks and months, we are back with a new video …
The Bedford Truck restoration has, generally, been going really well, but like most big projects, we’ve been held up by … what do you call it? Oh yeah … ‘unforeseen circumstances’. Most recently, we were unceremoniously evicted from our rented house, and with nowhere else to live, we were forced to take a break from the workshop whilst we sorted out our lives. Well after a challenging few months, we are BACK, literally picking up the pieces from where we left off, and looking forward to a long, productive summer ahead.
We will fill you in on those missing months soon, but first, let us bring you up to date a little on where we got to with the restoration project before we were forced to down tools …
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We are Lisa & Tim and for the last 2 years we have been busy restoring this 1975 Bedford Firetruck which, in a moment of madness, we bought at the end of 2020 with the dream of turning it into an off grid rolling home on wheels. The dream is still alive ... just. After a few ups and downs, we are currently at the business end of this full on nut and bolt restoration. Having taken literally everything apart, we recently finished the arduous task of cleaning up and painting the 22ft chassis frame, and now we are working our way through all the stuff we removed from it ... From the engine to the humblest washer, it's all getting the star treatment. We're getting close. But for now, it's all in bits, and we're just taking it one day at a time ...
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This channel is the story of us, Tim & Lisa, and our attempt to build the World's Greatest HOUSE-on-WHEELS on the World's Smallest Budget ... A unique motorhome, if you like, part vintage 70s, part off road overlander, all tiny home on wheels.
We are 2 'old enough to know better' artists from Cornwall in the UK, and together we are building this off-grid home on wheels from the remains of a 1975 Bedford Firetruck.
We bought the truck on eBay at the end of 2020 and had it delivered by an even bigger truck to a huge, old barn-on-a-farm we are renting to use as our workshop whilst we undertake this challenge.
Well, several months and a few set backs later, we’re currently in the process of ‘lovingly’ restoring the base vehicle, taking the whole thing apart, piece by rusty piece, so we can make it all new and shiny again, before we embark on the even bigger task of building a home on its back out of nothing more than grit, imagination, sweat, tears and possibly a bit of magic and wishful thinking!
Oh, and tea!
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New video every second Saturday (or thereabouts ... we do our best, you know?) Grab a cup of tea, Subscribe and join us on our quest ...
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• Playlist 'A New Home on Vintage Wheels' for every video of the build from the beginning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISU1...
Music in This Video as Follows:
Take Me On Down by Jay Denton
Swamp Shack by James Paul Mitchell
Think Myself to Death by Kyle Lalone
Memory Street by Bob Hart
Spare Me February by The Hunts
Dust on An Old Dirt Road by Tony Peterson
Yeats (instrumental) by The Hunts
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18 май 2023
