Renault 5 Extra wheelchair van

[Vulgalour]

You may remember me from ages ago when I bought a green Renault 6TL. I wasn't specifically looking for another Renault, let alone a van, and definitely not a wheelchair adapted one. However, it was the right price at the right time and the sort of vehicle I needed and given that it was fully road legal I thought it'd be rude not to. Then of course it decided to overheat and cook the head gasket because the plug for the radiator fan fell off the wiring and Renault never saw fit to install a temperature gauge just an Oops Light.




That minor failure aside, it's actually a really solid if tired looking van. I don't plan on this being a long termer, more a practical vehicle bought for a purpose that I'll move on once I've used it for that. In the meantime I'll sort what foibles it does have, which seem minimal, and we'll see how we go with it.

 

[Vulgalour]

Oof, well it took slightly more than the promised 'within five working days' to get the van recovered but it is finally here now. I've a (surprisingly short) list of jobs to attend to and I'm not planning to MoT until January so I can spend December sorting it out. Getting some stuff fixed and ordered is going to be hampered by seasonal events so I've decided not to rush things.

I will post updates here, of course, but I am making a switch to posting on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/NoExpenseSpent first for a lot of my content these days. I've got to earn a living and since making videos and art and stuff is what I do, that's how it is. Most of the stuff I post on Patreon does make it out so you can read and watch for free anyway, just a smidge later (or a lot later in the case of the Lanchester and Princess) than real time.

The most important thing to state is that I'm actually pretty happy with this van at the moment. Been a bit of a saga to get it home because of my health issues recently, that's no fault of the van or the previous owner who I honestly can't thank enough for being so accomodating with the purchase. I'm looking forward to having a bit more daylight to go through the van with properly, I've not had a lot of time to really dig in because it gets dark so quickly at this time of year. The only problem I have is I rather like it and I'm not really supposed to be keeping this one long term.


Oh and before I go, does anyone know who was responsible for doing the conversion on these vans? I'd be interested to learn a bit about their history and what sort of parts bin action was happening.