We are off!! Off on the camper renovation adventure. We were finally able to make it to my parents farm to start the process of cleaning, clearing and gutting the little 1968 Mercury camper. First of all, I am still in shock (3 months later) that we were able to find someone gladly willing to get rid of their "project camper" for serious cheap $$$. I think I had been on the hunt for about 10 months before I was contacted via my Craigslist wanted post. Before that, I did get quite a few people trying to sell their campers but they just weren't exactly what we were looking for. I think for awhile I was overly picky, but I had a vision and idea in my head what kind of camper I wanted to work on. And when this one pretty much fell into our laps, I was beyond excited and knew we had found the perfect one!
Right when we got her (or him?!) we made a major to-do list and waited. Since we are storing it at my parents farm that is 3.5 hours away, we can't make it there every weekend! Total bummer but it is so nice to know it's safe and we have all the tools imaginable right there. But needless to say, I want to be there every single day to work on it. So we have gotten one solid weekend of work down. It was great to start but wow do we have a lot left to do.
Here are a few pics of what we accomplished. Basically gutting the inside (which wasn't planned) because we found lots of mold and water damage to the walls and insulation. We also painted everything a nice white to open the small space up. Seriously so much left, but we are heading back next weekend for a full 5 days of camper time!!
And he was done for the day!
