Jmark40

No, but I hope to come your way after January.

Try not to tear any more apart then you need to. More of these projects end up not getting completed. Bite off small things. Take it camping. Coolers work fine.

Sorry Dolly but some are not worth restoring. A National being one of the worst constructed Rvs These are not GMC or Airstreams or even Sunraders. This was on the way to the recyclers if I had not taken it.

I used steel angle iron welded to the frame on ours. 3/4 plywood floor. I epoxy coated the bottom before I laced them in. I used the outside boxes as headers to the floor instead of extra angle iron. Used pocket screws and polyurethane subfloor glue to hold it al together. The floor does not move.

GoNe for a couple weeks and look what happen! We have not had a whole lot of time to put in ours. Here are the newest picks.

I've seen it. Kinda cool. Not quite what ours will look like.

Jim, the walls are 1 1/2 thick poplar. I used pocket screws to hold most of it. I plan on installing Dow foam between the walls. National built the side walls on a table with everything but the metal siding. Then they screwed the panel to the sides of the floor. Leaving interior paneling to rot below the floor line. The wall framing was 3/4 pine with thin fiberglass insulation. The original floor framing was just as bad in regards to structure. I found areas over 32 inches void of any support. Just a sandwich of 1//4 FRP, 1/4 foam and 3/4 plywood. The FRP did keep the water off the bottom. I did weld in quite a bit of angle iron to better support the floor. We need all those clamps for building curved handrails. Our day job is stair construction.

Making the roof bows. I bent 1/4 Baltic birch to a form. Six laminations to each bow. It was rainy in Denver this weekend. Slowing my progress. Hope to have the roof on by the end of next week. The birch was cover sheets from the shipping boxes. The price was right. All the plywood except the floor was cover sheets. My hardwood supplier has big stack of it.

The side walls are framed and covered with thin plywood. Glued and screwed. I will be laminating the roof framing next. I am bending 1/4 inch plywood in 2 inch wide strips 6 at a time to make the curve for the roof. Then the end walls can go in. I will upload pics from my desktop later. The pics from my iPad end upside down.

The filon is a nice option. It would look brand new. It installs with contact cement. Would not recommend applying on a windy fall day. Just not the look I want for this use. It could easily morph into a motor home. I think of this project as the perfect mobile man cave

The scope and use changed. As I now have a larger motorhome. This will be a rolling workshop. I am using 1 1/2 inch poplar for the walls. I have 1/4 plywood going to the exterior with a thin beadboard paneling as infill to 3/4 a oak trim. The ceiling now is a curved bow made by glued and laminated pieces of hardwood. Epdm For the roof covering. A dutch door on the rear. Think gypsy wagon. 1 1/2 inch solid foam for wall and ceiling. I was going to use filon for the walls and roof, but found it too plain for my new use. For heat I use a buddy heater in my current box truck.

If your talking about the other motorhome, it's a 80s ford with a 460. 45000 miles. It's a Mallard and very clean. Transmission replaced 1000 miles ago. Had not been ran in ten years. Drained the tanks, cleaned the Holley. Engine purrs!

Yes, it's our kids toy. Don't like the wind in what's left of my hair.

Not sure what's up with image upload