Adam Dalliance on Nostr: As I [said a few months ago](https://boing.world/@pre/113276843755868130), the estate ...
As I [said a few months ago](https://boing.world/@pre/113276843755868130), the estate offered me a garage meaning I finally have somewhere to put a van that I can convert into a microcamper.
So I bought this Berlingo last month.
I thought the fact it was already converted into a van would probably make the camper-conversion easier.
Turns out that's likely not really the case. So it goes. It's previously been converted for a wheelchair ramp, which means the floor has been lowered, and this means there's nowhere safe to bolt rear passenger seats, and so can't have that "rock and roll" bed, that converts into seatbelted seats for passengers.
It does add a large underfloor storage area though.
I thought it would be fairly easy to remove the metal plates over the windows, but that turned out to be a mistaken assumption too. Was no metal plates. They'd just painted over the glass with some metallic paint. Luckily this can be just scraped off, presumably with some paint dissolving solvents applied too. Dunno. I let the professionals handle that.
So I bought this Berlingo last month.
I thought the fact it was already converted into a van would probably make the camper-conversion easier.
Turns out that's likely not really the case. So it goes. It's previously been converted for a wheelchair ramp, which means the floor has been lowered, and this means there's nowhere safe to bolt rear passenger seats, and so can't have that "rock and roll" bed, that converts into seatbelted seats for passengers.
It does add a large underfloor storage area though.
I thought it would be fairly easy to remove the metal plates over the windows, but that turned out to be a mistaken assumption too. Was no metal plates. They'd just painted over the glass with some metallic paint. Luckily this can be just scraped off, presumably with some paint dissolving solvents applied too. Dunno. I let the professionals handle that.