Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2008 15:07:07 GMT 10
Hi Guys,
I'm new here and looking to finding ways forward with my classic.
Apologies for the rather poor photo, it was taken on a disposable underwater camera, at Scotts Head NSW some years ago. Funny that it hasn't appeared in more happy snaps
Edit: I see the pic had gone walk-a-bout so re-inserted.
Anyhow you guys can probably tell me more about the York. My memory was that the York was a downgraded Millard? It has a 'four season hatch' (so it's modern by classic standards).
It's a rear bedroom and robe/dresser configuration, with a 4'6'' double mattress on a 'slide out from the wall' frame. There's a middle kitchen (4 x burner grill and oven) and very large lounge /table and at the front; twin bunks. So it's a 5 x bedder with the table down. And room for 6 or more at the table (quite a large crowd). Tare weight is 1450 (from manufacturers specs I believe)
But the real beauty of the York and I guess the reason I first bought it, is the 'gal' chassis and aluminium frame. It's complimented with independent bogey wheels and four wheel electric brakes. It's 100% waterproof, even after all the weather it has seen so it'll be around for a while yet. It's now shedded.
I picked it up in 1995 for $2,500, out of a backyard the other side of Parramatta. It had original tyres with no wear, but was well worn on the inside, I suspect as a spare room or the like. The outside is well faded with a few damage points, scratches dings and the like, but nothing major, and there's little to no paint left on the roof.
It then went on annual family holidays to northern NSW and proved a wonderful cheap holiday van for a few idyllic weeks a year by the beach with teenage children. It did a couple of years 'on site for 3 months' as a Ski van for the 'then driving' kids, at Jindabyne and has lately resumed holidaying by the beach in northern NSW with two empty nesters. A 1996 80 series cruiser is the capable tow vehicle.
About the only things I've done to it thus far apart from a new set of light truck tyres and the original re registration in 1995 is:
1. Rewired the electric brakes to equalise the cable runs to each wheel. The shortest cable run (wheel) did a disproportionate amount of braking (locking up) in it's original factory wiring configuration.
2. Changed a few overhead cupboard doors to swing up rather than out.
3. Removed the sadly worn folding door to the bedroom.
4. Ply sheeted the double mattress base (simply covered the creaking springs)
5. Removed (at my wifes stern directions) and much against my better judgement, the 'upside down wine' rack curtain pelmets over all the windows. Curtains and all fly-screens were replaced 6 years ago.
6. Spare tyre a-frame mounted.
7. An external power point was added and the tv point was re-wired with RG6 and f-type connectors for digital reception. The old 2-way fridge works fine, but is certainly not tropical rated
8. New gas inspection certificate and an upgraded gas safety cut-off switch, hose and regulator was added after it fell out of rego two years ago and had to suffer re-registration again.
9. A mains pressure water and new waste water connection point was added at the side of the van.
10. An extra annexe track was added to the off-side van roof, so that the original annexe (timber poles) and a new awning (1997) can be rigged at the same time. Or just the awning can be used on the near-side as in the picture.
11. The window rubbers at the top of the louvre windows were replaced along with I think every pop rivet hinge joint on the windows. The window to aluminium louvre frames rubbers are badly perished and starting to fall out, but they don't leak.
So apart from the pelmets it's still pretty original.
I'll post elsewhere about my tentative plans to retrofit.
I'm new here and looking to finding ways forward with my classic.
Apologies for the rather poor photo, it was taken on a disposable underwater camera, at Scotts Head NSW some years ago. Funny that it hasn't appeared in more happy snaps
Edit: I see the pic had gone walk-a-bout so re-inserted.
Anyhow you guys can probably tell me more about the York. My memory was that the York was a downgraded Millard? It has a 'four season hatch' (so it's modern by classic standards).
It's a rear bedroom and robe/dresser configuration, with a 4'6'' double mattress on a 'slide out from the wall' frame. There's a middle kitchen (4 x burner grill and oven) and very large lounge /table and at the front; twin bunks. So it's a 5 x bedder with the table down. And room for 6 or more at the table (quite a large crowd). Tare weight is 1450 (from manufacturers specs I believe)
But the real beauty of the York and I guess the reason I first bought it, is the 'gal' chassis and aluminium frame. It's complimented with independent bogey wheels and four wheel electric brakes. It's 100% waterproof, even after all the weather it has seen so it'll be around for a while yet. It's now shedded.
I picked it up in 1995 for $2,500, out of a backyard the other side of Parramatta. It had original tyres with no wear, but was well worn on the inside, I suspect as a spare room or the like. The outside is well faded with a few damage points, scratches dings and the like, but nothing major, and there's little to no paint left on the roof.
It then went on annual family holidays to northern NSW and proved a wonderful cheap holiday van for a few idyllic weeks a year by the beach with teenage children. It did a couple of years 'on site for 3 months' as a Ski van for the 'then driving' kids, at Jindabyne and has lately resumed holidaying by the beach in northern NSW with two empty nesters. A 1996 80 series cruiser is the capable tow vehicle.
About the only things I've done to it thus far apart from a new set of light truck tyres and the original re registration in 1995 is:
1. Rewired the electric brakes to equalise the cable runs to each wheel. The shortest cable run (wheel) did a disproportionate amount of braking (locking up) in it's original factory wiring configuration.
2. Changed a few overhead cupboard doors to swing up rather than out.
3. Removed the sadly worn folding door to the bedroom.
4. Ply sheeted the double mattress base (simply covered the creaking springs)
5. Removed (at my wifes stern directions) and much against my better judgement, the 'upside down wine' rack curtain pelmets over all the windows. Curtains and all fly-screens were replaced 6 years ago.
6. Spare tyre a-frame mounted.
7. An external power point was added and the tv point was re-wired with RG6 and f-type connectors for digital reception. The old 2-way fridge works fine, but is certainly not tropical rated
8. New gas inspection certificate and an upgraded gas safety cut-off switch, hose and regulator was added after it fell out of rego two years ago and had to suffer re-registration again.
9. A mains pressure water and new waste water connection point was added at the side of the van.
10. An extra annexe track was added to the off-side van roof, so that the original annexe (timber poles) and a new awning (1997) can be rigged at the same time. Or just the awning can be used on the near-side as in the picture.
11. The window rubbers at the top of the louvre windows were replaced along with I think every pop rivet hinge joint on the windows. The window to aluminium louvre frames rubbers are badly perished and starting to fall out, but they don't leak.
So apart from the pelmets it's still pretty original.
I'll post elsewhere about my tentative plans to retrofit.
