Lets start at the begining

Hello there, if there is anybody there, welcome to my blog.
This is hopefully going to be an account of the restoration of our 1983 CF Bedford camper.
We are not going for a full concours type of restoration just enough so that we can put the van back on the road and be able to use it for weekends away and still be able to park it in the supermarket carpark with out worrying if it has been damaged by a runaway trolly.
We bought the van a couple of weeks ago through ebay and had it collected from Suffolk and brought to our home in bedfordshire. This in its self proved to be harder than expected as the recovery company that we first contacted to do the job gave us a resonable quote but on the morning of recovery they decided that they had misscalculated and told us that it had more than doubled in price!
This would have meant that the recovery would have cost almost much as the van!
Well thats the start, I will be back later with some of the pics that we have taken so far and a bit more info on what is required to put the old girl back on the tarmac.