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I know what you mean. My grandparents built their house in 1979 and aside from a carpet change in the den, it remained the same until it was knocked down in 2011 by the people they sold it to a few years prior. They had the old school wood paneled walls and the awesome sculpted brown carpets you see in older vans. All of it is long gone.The carpet was almost 30 years old and had maybe a year's worth of wear on it at the time of the demo. Shame.

Nice find Charlie.

Looking sweet , that visor wool be nice on it.

So I found a broken wire on my voltage regulator today. I think that's why it isn't charging the battery. I did a few other things I had put off until recently. I installed the aftermarket temp gauge, new thermostat and the proceeded to break off the bolt of the housing while tightening. There went a while and perfectly good housing after I took the grinder to it.

I also removed my overhead console and I think I'm gonna ditch it. We'll see.

Sometimes it’s a few steps forward, a few steps back.

I have a tenant who did wood working for about 35 years professionally. I contracted him to make a new cup holder for the van from the old one and refinish the wooden arm rests that scream "1970's". I'll get them back on Monday and I am super stoked for them. They armrests are oak, so I had him make the cup holder from oak also and then stain them with cherry wood to tie in the maroon paint and the black interior. I wish I had them to take some pics of because they're so cool.

That sounds awesome Charlie; can't wait for pics. ( tenant ??? ) Do you have a line on cheap beach front property with a garage ?

I wish. No, I manage an apartment complex in Sacramento.

Well,
its was sunny a lovely sunny day here in Brisvegas, so I decided to make a start on the van, I need to get it out of the shed so I can get rolling on finishing the fitting of the power windows and central locking. First up fitted the new alternator, refitted the fan shroud, radiator & top and bottom hoses. I rechecked all the vacuum hoses, with a sigh I could see they hadn`t fixed themselves while in storage, they are in a mess, there seems to be dozens of them. cracked and perished as well. I`ve had new hoses for months, not looking fwd to tackling this, maybe I`ll just remove them all and replace each one as I go as and when needed,
Tomorrow I`ll fill the rad and engine with a flushing mix and run it, see if I cant get rid of the rust colored water before I add coolant.[u][/u]
Once thats done I can back it in and out to get to work on the interior.