{"id":219,"date":"2008-09-13T16:20:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-13T16:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=219"},"modified":"2015-11-20T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T15:30:26","slug":"clean-shaven-vw-crafter-conversion-is-mobile-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/219","title":{"rendered":"Clean Shaven VW Crafter Conversion Is Mobile Barber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new van is rather like a blank canvas &#8211; with a bit of money and skill, it can be converted into almost anything &#8211; from luxury living accomodation to a mobile workshop or restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>This VW Crafter conversion proves that new ideas are always possible &#8211; and that they aren&#8217;t as complicated as they might seem.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-222 aligncenter\" title=\"The Barbus - Mobile Barber in Volkswagen Crafter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barbus1-sm.jpg\" alt=\"The Barbus - Mobile Barber in Volkswagen Crafter\" width=\"350\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barbus1-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barbus1-sm-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Barbus provides a mobile barber service to the good people of Banbury, Oxfordshire and is the brainchild of Stella O&#8217;Neill and Louise Viggers, the directors of Barbus Service UK Ltd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-223 aligncenter\" title=\"The Barbus mobile barber interior\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barbus2-sm.jpg\" alt=\"The Barbus mobile barber interior\" width=\"350\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barbus2-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/barbus2-sm-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The conversion took four weeks to complete and involved ply lining and insulating the walls and ceiling in the load area, before covering it in a high gloss flame retardant plastic covering; the floor was covered in black rubber stud tiles; shelving was fitted and a generator was installed to power the heating and air conditioning system.<\/p>\n<p>The van itself is a long wheelbase, high roof Volkswagen Crafter with a 2.5l, 136 PS engine driving a semi-automatic Shiftmatic gearbox.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly looks like a <em>cut <\/em>above the average van to me and is very well <em>trimmed<\/em>&#8230; I thank you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new van is rather like a blank canvas &#8211; with a bit of money and skill, it can be converted into almost anything &#8211; from luxury living accomodation to a mobile workshop or restaurant. This VW Crafter conversion proves that new ideas are always possible &#8211; and that they aren&#8217;t as complicated as they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[405,403,406,404,402,66],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}