The
pictures you see on this page is my van as I have got it now. The van was originally
a Devon Conversion (right) but I started to have problems with the roof (ie leaking in
struts went on one side) so I decided to put a Dormobile roof on it. This would give me more headroom than the one
I have got in. I got this from a
bloke in Gloucester who was breaking up a VW and was selling the wardrobe and
optional chairs for the Dormobile at the time, but when I got there I purchased
the cooker off him and some other bits and pieces. I asked him what he was doing
with the van after it had been stripped and he
was sending it to the scrap yard,
so I asked him for the roof of it and to my surprise he said I could have the
roof for nothing along with the bunk beds, so long as I took it off myself. So the
following day I set out with my Mother and all the tools I would need to do the
job, and
after 4 hours of non stop chiseling I finally got it. But the main problem was
how I was going to get it home? because it wouldn't fit in the van. So I called on one of my mates at work Steven
who borrowed a pick up van (not a VW) and he took me for it and brought it back
home. (Thank You) The next thing was could I fit it or would I make
a pigs ear of it. I took the original roof off and then came to this big obstacle
of welding a plate in the roof because the Dormobile roof is smaller than the
Devon conversion. I then set out to go to the scrap yard and chisel the top off
a panel van that they were breaking. Got home with it and cut it down to the
right size, and welded it in no problem. When I started to fit the roof and allsorts
were going through my mind like is it in the right place, will the canvas be
slack or tight when I have finished, I hope I'm not going to get it twisted and
will close in the right place. But when I finally got there it was absolutely
bob on, and I'm glad I fitted it because it looks so much better than the other
one I had and I have now over 8 feet of standing space
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The
pictures you see on this page is my van as I have got it now. The van was originally
a Devon Conversion (right) but I started to have problems with the roof (ie leaking in
struts went on one side) so I decided to put a Dormobile roof on it. This would give me more headroom than the one
I have got in. I got this from a
bloke in Gloucester who was breaking up a VW and was selling the wardrobe and
optional chairs for the Dormobile at the time, but when I got there I purchased
the cooker off him and some other bits and pieces. I asked him what he was doing
with the van after it had been stripped and he 
was sending it to the scrap yard,
so I asked him for the roof of it and to my surprise he said I could have the
roof for nothing along with the bunk beds, so long as I took it off myself. So the
following day I set out with my Mother and all the tools I would need to do the
job, and
after 4 hours of non stop chiseling I finally got it. But the main problem was
how I was going to get it home? because it wouldn't fit in the van. So I called on one of my mates at work Steven
who borrowed a pick up van (not a VW) and he took me for it and brought it back
home. (Thank You) 
