A record of a bus conversion in text
and photos to a home on wheels.
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The
interior framing begins and
painting the exposed metal that is not aluminum.
Rustolium covers lots of ugly spots we'll never see again, Ha!
The
benches that will become padded couches. This is the wood recycled from
the old bus seats.
New
walls appear almost overnight.
A
closet cubbyhole, cutting the aluminum to make the facings for the
benches.
Getting it down to the original primer and patching the rust or corrosion
damage with autobody filler.
There are at least 3, sometimes more, separate coats of brown primer
and schoolbus-yellow plus damaged areas with old body filler. In some
places they peel off like a skin.