The Sportsmobile is here!!!!
So Senjay arrived today after 4 days on the road...I met him in Antioch and took delivery of the van. This thing is big!
Senjay gave me the grand tour...there's a lot of neat features on this van. Furnace, tons of storage, including a rear secret underfloor compartment. Lots of interior lights. Pop-top is very spacious, but also very heavy! there are 2 large solar panels too.
The van looks great, but as I expected, there's going to be some work needed...
The exterior of the van is really nice. The body is straight, the paint shinny and there's no rust.
The engine, transmission, suspension and brakes are great.
Beside the alignment problem, the van behaves almost as good as new.
But the inside of the van is green and "woody".
It may have looked nice when the van was new, but now it looks....bizarre....let's just say it needs a makeover.
So this week one of the first task will be to remove the interior cabinets. I intend to replace the carpet and repaint the cabinets in white or grey. Eventually I am also going to replace the green headliners on the ceiling...
And this van is also going to get new wheels and tires!
more tomorrow. I'll try to take some pictures.
Christian
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I agree about the ugliness of the interior. I don't know why so many people go with the wood interior - I think the only reason that Sportsmobile offers it is so that they can upcharge $200 for plain gray cabinetry - gray laminate can't cost more than woodgrain, can it? I saw the van on eBay and it seemed like a pretty good deal to me, too. The woodgrain doesn't look as bad as the Sportsmobile that I keep seeing on Craigslist in upstate New York.
My plan, when I finally get my used Sportsmobile, is to lightly sand the laminate and paint it some reasonable color. I've never actually tried this, but it seems like it ought to work.
Not to bother you with yet another comment, but while you have the cabinets out, you might want to work on uprating the insulation - according to the folks over at badgertrek, the factory insulation job leaves a bit to be desired.
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