From Rusty WRECK to Shiny MARVEL - A 1 Year Restoration Special of Our Vintage Bedford Truck Cab …

This video is a special recap on everything we've been doing for the last few months, which is the restoration of the cab of our Bedford Truck. So, you can either watch it all here in 20 minutes, or you can go back and watch it all in fabulous detail from the start by tuning into this handy playlist ... 'A New Home on Vintage Wheels':
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISU1

If you're one of our regulars here, well, we have a little treat for you: You get to live it all over again while we have a short break from filming! Lucky you! We've had a bit of a re-group at the workshop, getting everything good and tidy for the next round of work while we wait for our mains electricity (yes, that again!) to be installed.

We'll be back in a couple of weeks with our usual progress report, so don't forget to subscribe and hit the bell icon so you don't miss future videos and the continuation of this mammoth restoration and eventual build of our tiny off grid home on wheels to be!

Thank you so much for watching,
L&T

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This channel is the story of us, Tim & Lisa, and our attempt to build the World's Greatest Adventure Mobile on the World's Smallest Budget ...

We are 2 'old enough to know better' artists from Cornwall in the UK, and together we are building an 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.

It’s not the first time we’ve attempted something as daft as this … We once spent several years restoring and converting a 50 year old fishing trawler into a houseboat, so when we set out on this latest adventure, we told ourselves it would be a breeze …

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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• Playlist 'A New Home on Vintage Wheels' for every video of the build from the beginning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ISU1...

Music in this video as follows licensed from https://artlist.io​​ ...

Served on A Platter by Leon Laudenbach (Instrumental Version)
Take Me on Down by Jay Denton (Instrumental Version)
Heaven Knows by The Hunts
Work, Sleep, Repeat by Ben Bostick
Working The Fields by James Paul Mitchell
Fire & Gasoline by David Jack Marshall
Tough by Rafael Rico
Good Times & The Bad by Leon Laudenbach
Sunny Tuesday by Rafael Rico
Love of Mine by The Hunts

0:00 Introduction
0:05 The Old Rope Salvage Workshop November 2011
3:14 The Bedford Cab Restoration
3:18 Delivery Day
4:23 The Dismantling
6:16 Stripping Down
6:46 Fun With Paint Removal
7:45 Welding, Grinding & Panel Beating
10:14 Sandblasting
15:03 Epoxy Primer
16:44 Sanding, Filler, More Sanding
18:15 High Build Primer
19:16 The Top Coat