We Finished The Bedford Chassis Restoration! But Was The Pain of Doing it All Ourselves Worth it?

#37 - After all these weeks of pain and suffering through the grinding and the sandblasting of this massive, 22ft long industrial sized, rusted up Bedford chassis frame, we are finally done. Fair to say, it’s a good day for progress in the restoration of this 1975 Bedford firetruck. Join us this week for the final stages of priming and painting, as well as loads of other seemingly random stuff, more zinc plating, some early Christmas decorating and, er, oh yeah … of course … some sandblasting … ... 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! Subscribe to the channel and join us in our workshop and we promise it will be nothing if not value for money … it’s free, you see? New video every second Friday. Grab a cup of tea, Subscribe and join us on our quest ... SUPPORT US: • Patreon:   / oldropesalvage   FOLLOW US: • Website: http://www.oldropesalvage.co.uk​​ • Facebook:   / oldropesalvage   • Instagram:   / oldropesalvage   • 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: Pasture Blues by Bennett Sullivan My Cup is Nearly Empty by David Jack Marshall Deck The Halls by Ziv Moran Born Tough by James Paul Mitchell Keepsakes by Be Still The Earth Sunny Days by Team Callahan All the above music is licensed by Artlist