David, Phil and Josh are three guys that have a dream of restoring a 1961 Ford Econoline Van (A.K.A. Betty) in time to travel to the 2010 Cochella Music Festival and camp next to their dream van. They quickly dismissed their dream when they realized that funding the project would be impossible given their current financial situations. I suggested that they ask for help by accepting donations from friends and family, in return they will track their restoration progress for everyone to enjoy. If you've ever had a dream project that you wanted to undertake with your best friends, then you can certainly relate. Read our blog, comment our posts, and put on your seatbelts cause its gonna be one hell of a bumpy ride. Please do your part in helping these guys accomplish their dream by making a contribution through the Paypal donate button located at the bottom of this page.
Any contribution and I mean ANYTHING will be of huge help. Thanks!
Today we got a good idea on how much work its going to be. Started planning what were gonna do to fix this bad girl up. The homeboy Jason came over and told us what were going to need to do in terms of body work. We also changed betty's oil and figured out the engine still cranks (Positive sign the engine might actually run!). This weekend were gonna get a little help from Phil's friend with the engine. If all goes well and the engine turns out to be in good conditions, we hope to get it close to running by the end of this week!
Getting Betty up on jacks.
Jason testing out his sander on the van.
Philibuster sanding down some cracks. Looks like were gonna need ALOT of sandpaper.
Finally got them ugly ass windows out.
David checking out spots where we're going to need body work.
Fillup and Dave servicing the van....... Lol.
Putting some new oil to replace the danky black gunk that was in there.
Last night turned out to be pretty productive. Good job guys. Next comes the sheet metal to cover up the holes for the windows, sanding her down and and try to get her to purr by saturday. If all goes well we will be looking pretty good and on schedule to meet our deadline.
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Last night turned out to be pretty productive. Good job guys. Next comes the sheet metal to cover up the holes for the windows, sanding her down and and try to get her to purr by saturday. If all goes well we will be looking pretty good and on schedule to meet our deadline.
nice progress guys! keep spreading the word!
Good job boys!! really seeing some progress! keep up the good work!
I might be stopping by soon to lend a hand :)
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