Shite Vans.

[Sheefag]

Alfa Romeo AR8 apparently:-

 

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Alfa+Romeo+AR8&client=firefox-b&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj5ppmz9rTOAhXCBcAKHQVGA3MQsAQIHQ&biw=1440&bih=821

 

[SOUL]

 

 

[RoadworkUK]

That Alfa Daily is a photoshop isn't it ?

 

I'd say more Painters Workshop on a Commodore 16.

[mercrocker]

These represent the tools of my trade as a port agent very many years ago....

 

Had 2 Renner 4s, killed one within 4 months in a dust up with a Singer Vogue, the other died a more natural death.   The Simca I had was actually badged as Dodge, Talbot and Simca in three different places and was orangier than this pic.   That died too, having shat its coolant on the M3 after an urgent airport run.    

 

The Escort was far better but much duller  

 

 

 

 

 

[Sheefag]

250JU Limo Edition

 

[Vin]

Ram ProMaster...FWD with a Pentastar V6 up front...To me that sounds insane. It could be absolutely Ace though...

 

[Vin]

A shite holy grail...the Uno based Fiat Citivan...

 

[Sheefag]

Have we had a Lancia?

 

[mercrocker]

When Martini & Rossi had a bottling plant in the docks there was one of these things running around in their livery.   Bloody awesome thing and yet I never papped it much to my continued annoyance.... 

 

 

 

 

 

[SOUL]

 

Chinese Monty-Maesto Van

[mercrocker]

Those letters even look like they are spelling Cantonese for Crap Van.  Awesome!

[Lacquer Peel]

[Sheefag]

I nearly made the mistake of buying a Vanette years ago. Slowest and loudest thing on the planet, We'll have to work hard to find a shiter van.

[Lacquer Peel]

I liked my Vanette but I'm mental. Not sure it's slower or louder than a Transit 2.5Di or LDV Convoy and they handle well enough.

[Cleon-Fonte]

The Mercedes T2 Dusseldorfer set the benchmark in terms of unkillability, eventually becoming the darling of bus operators up and down the UK. It also made a delightful racket,

 

[Sheefag]

I liked my Vanette but I'm mental. Not sure it's slower or louder than a Transit 2.5Di or LDV Convoy and they handle well enough.

 

In the face of 1st hand experience, I stand corrected.

Did the LDV Cub differ in any way apart from the badge?

[sierraman]

Did they ever sell the Ebro Trade in the uk?

[Lacquer Peel]

In the face of 1st hand experience, I stand corrected.

Did the LDV Cub differ in any way apart from the badge?

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.

[Sheefag]

Did they ever sell the Ebro Trade in the uk?

 

They certainly did, they all seemed to be either white or orange.

 

They had EBRO in large letters with 'Powered By Nissan' in a smaller font. I seem to remember they all rotted like bastards.

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nissan-Ebro-Trade-Van-1985-86-UK-Market-Foldout-Sales-Brochure-/171620373451

[Sheefag]

Whilst searching for the above I came across a Nissan CABSTAR brochure. I was struck by how simple it would be to change CABSTAR to BASTARD.

Hope this helps someone here.

 

[chaseracer]

Is it me, or do those alte Schule Merc vans look like they've already had an accident?

 

Anyway: more Alfa Romeo goodness, this time the Milanese version of the Fiat Ducato/Talbot Express, the imaginatively-named AR6...

 

[Supernaut]

Ram ProMaster...FWD with a Pentastar V6 up front...To me that sounds insane. It could be absolutely Ace though...

 

That's nothing. Apparently the American market Transit has options for AWD, and the Ecoboost (twin turbo!) V6. Now that would be a giggle.

[f1fan111]

another promotional vehicle, now ok, Worthies is pish, but if there is nothing else to drink, it'll do....

 

 

they aren't the only brewery to have the same idea, this one i've not seen or heard of, and looks like its built up on a 2CV chassis

https://www.bushys.com/history/bottlecars/

 

They are 2cv based and I'm sure one maybe based on a dyanne or have square headlights fitted. Will take photo if I see them out

[mat_the_cat]

The Mercedes T2 Dusseldorfer set the benchmark in terms of unkillability, eventually becoming the darling of bus operators up and down the UK. It also made a delightful racket,

 

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My mate has one, which has been in the family since new. Hugely slow, with only 60 bhp but feels incredibly well built. Don't know if they're standard, but it even has grease nipples on the door hinges!

 

Camping in France a few years ago:

 

[mercrocker]

This miserable bastard was an attempt by Standard-Triumph to break into the medium delivery van market alongside Ford's Thames, the BMC J vans and the Bedford CA.  

 

Originally bestowed with the Standard Ten engine/gearbox (necessitating a cack-handed reverse-rake gear lever arrangement) it soon became obvious that 948cc was not going to haul half a ton very quickly......Later vans had the Ensign version of the wet-liner Vanguard engine.

 

It lived into the 1960s as the Leyland Fifteen and Twenty and even longer in India.   

 

 

 

[sierraman]

Jesus Christ. Not only miserable to drive but miserable to look at. At least the Sherpa had a daft silly name.

[Sheefag]

Cavcraft would be all over this one

 

[vulgalour]

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