Shite Vans.

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[JeeExEll]

That would be my 73 Mercury Marquis.

 

 

I imported it from the states a few years ago. It's a full fat with all the trimmings big block 7.0 V8! Which has just recently had a full rebuild.

 

Edit; you can read the whole tale of woe and despair here http://autoshite.com/topic/18142-huge-yank-shite-its-home-pics-pg-11/

If you want to of course!

Thanks dan, look forward to checking it out later. 7 litre, think that's a 390 in Merican metric.

[JeeExEll]

 

 

Makes you wonder what Ford uk could have done at time with the Mk1 Cortina and Mk3 Zeffer.

[danthecapriman]

Thanks dan, look forward to checking it out later. 7 litre, think that's a 390 in Merican metric.

In Merican it's a 429 cubic inch. Nice and big!

[Asimo]

Moskvich!  

 

 

Moskvich!!  

 

 

Oltcit!!!  

 

 

Tatra!!!!  

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[Sheefag]

BAZ Furgonet

 

[Junkman]

[Sheefag]

That Tatra is glorious.

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[andy18s]

Not really, I think they were all high roof versions, and the specs were slightly different.

I like them but they are definitely shite.

Fitting the 2.0TD installed in Japanese versions would have made them a lot more palatable.

I had a Cub for a good few months.

They all need the rear crossmember welding,and the alternator was built into the power steering pump but it soldiered on at a relentless (but slow) pace

The 2.7 Terrano engine will go in with a bell housing swap from an LTI taxi which used the Nissan engine....FX4 iirc ....

[Skut]

Honorary mention must go to Magic Iris

[Supernaut]

I dare anyone to stamp on the brakes in that thing while the back is empty.

[bub2006]

I miss this old girl. Travelled length and breadth of the country in it. R.I.P ya noisy old bugger.

[Sheefag]

STREWTH!! What happened to that bub?

[bub2006]

Speeding car hit me and chompy snake from behind. There is a thread about it.

[Lacquer Peel]

I miss this old girl. Travelled length and breadth of the country in it. R.I.P ya noisy old bugger.

[Lacquer Peel]

 

 

I had a Cub for a good few months.

They all need the rear crossmember welding,and the alternator was built into the power steering pump but it soldiered on at a relentless (but slow) pace

The 2.7 Terrano engine will go in with a bell housing swap from an LTI taxi which used the Nissan engine....FX4 iirc ....

Mine was scruffy but had never been welded and was sound underneath.

The alternator/power steering pump setup is similar to the Isuzu 1.7TD, must be a Japanese thing.

I did think about getting a TD27 fitted or turbocharging the LD23 - I know someone who's ace at retrofitting turbos to old diesels.

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[AMC Rebel]

 

Vans I've had -

 

MK1 Escort - my first "car" sold my motorbike to buy it.  By the time I sold it, it was a trigger's broom patchwork of scrapyard doors and replacement panels held together by a million hours of skilled gas welding I cadged off friends.

 

Commer PB - Perkins 4108 Dizzler - slow and generally 100% dire ex -Royal Mail..  I used to do mobile discos.  One really cold night the compacted snow in the car park had frozen, so even after loading tons of lights, amps records and bass bins into the thing there was no grip on the rear wheels.  I put it in second and let the clutch out, latched the driver's door open and ran round the back and gave it a shove until it started moving, then ran alongside and jumped in and set off.

 

Nearly crashed when I jumped in one morning, reversed off parents drive and found I had no brakes.  A slave cylinder had popped out overnight and the brake fluid had leaked away - despite being a 1977 van it single circuit brakes!  handbrake operated the front wheels IIRC.  Ftp in the 86/7 winter of diesel freezes - due to frozen diesel, worked fine after a thaw.

 

VW Type 2 Bay window - 1979 - last of the bays.  1.6 slow and unreliable.  Had a (sort of) ftp when the throttle cable snapped on the way to work one day - I jammed it open on the fast idle cam and managed to kangaroo to work.  Once rear-ended by an old boy in a (then) quite new Volvo 340 who was a git about it.  Had another sort of ftp when the clutch went, but I got home by stalling it at traffic lights etc, then selecting first and starting it, and going through the box clutchless.  Was always going wrong and VW must've been having a laugh with the "heating".  Once drove it from Nottingham to Devon with a shed on the roof rack and a load of other crap in it for a mate who offered to pay my fuel costs but was shocked when I told him what it actually cost.  Sold to an Indian guy who ran a corner shop and last heard of from the Police who said it was on it's roof and did I still own it - several months later. 

[SOUL]

Chinese Peugeot 504 double cab hash up.

 

 

Irish market 306 van

 

 

 

Chinese lash up, Citroen ZX double cab.

 

 

Dongfeng Citroen ZX van

 

 

Iranian goodness hashed up from bits of old 405.

 

followed by a bit of Bardo (not of Eurovision).....