The conversion

The seats attached to the runners

The first job was to remove the minibus seats. The seats themselves came out easily as they were attached on sliding runners.

With all the seats gone

A much more difficult job was removing the runners. They were attached through the floor of the van with over two hundred bolts. I tried unscrewing them, but most were too rusty, so I had to drill them out. It took me two days and I broke about 6 drill bits!

Runners gone after two days hard work!