Shite Vans.

[Vin]

A previous Autoshite favourite, the Spanish coachbuilder 'Emelba' deserve a mention again for producing amongst other things a Horizon and Ritmo/Ronda van that are just AWESOME.

 

For Example,

 

 

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[Cleon-Fonte]

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:

 

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Lack of performance was definitely a feature. As we didn't have a car for a long time when I was a kid T2s were our primary means of transport (unless we took a taxi), and my abiding memory of them is being ragged everywhere flat out but barely actually moving.

 

Still, the earlier round-nosed van conversions managed 12 years of receiving such abuse 10 hours a day, seven days a week (despite living their entire lives in salty sea air), some of them doing a few more years in the driving school after that. The later square-nosed ones with proper bus bodies did even longer service and worked up moonship mileages.

 

I will own one eventually, even if they do begin to attract some kind of scene tax, as they're probably the vehicles that kicked off my automotive interests in the first place. And, let's face it, the round-nosed ones look fucking mega.

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BoonieBug

 

[Ghosty]

[Louise2cv]

https://goo.gl/images/qdzXkW

[Louise2cv]

I don't know how to do pictures. Sorry.

[Dead_E23]

Allow me:

 

 

(When you're in the box where you compose your post, click on the icon beneath the smiley face that looks like a polaroid snap and paste the image's URL into the dialog box that appears.  You usually get the URL by right clicking on the 'target image' wherever you found it on the web).

[Dead_E23]

Earlier today, I was delighted to discover the Lada Tarzan whilst not really paying attention to a rather dull conference call.  

 

 

They're a rare but factory made combination of Lada Niva underpinnings and a Lada 110.  The earlier ones look cool - they've got a Samara body.

[Supernaut]

BoonieBug

 

How about a Brubaker Box?

 

[Louise2cv]

Thanks Dead-E23, I was on the mobile. Will switch to full version next time, ta!

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Love that Lada.

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[Junkman]

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https://www.donedeal.ie/vintagecars-for-sale/starlet-van/12275617

 

[Cavcraft]

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[Asimo]

Commer Walk-Thru

 

Daihatsu Mira

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That Daihatsu Mira is so awesome, here's another one - you wouldn't want to drive the bugger in a wind though

 

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I was torn between the 'Ebay Tat Thread' and here for this one - 1953 Chevy Sedan Delivery, lovely van but mucho fuckin dinero

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chevy-Sedan-Delivery-1953-Hot-rod-Surf-truck-Classic-American-Ratrod-RARE/391525551725?_trksid=p2047675.c100010.m2109&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D2%26asc%3D38052%26meid%3D935ed0720e92498c9a4bd392fe030e2f%26pid%3D100010%26rk%3D6%26rkt%3D24%26sd%3D131906741734

 

 

[Cavcraft]

Mini vans (the 'original' ones) are truly fucking awful.

[Sheefag]

You know you're not allowed to say that?

[legasoil96]

Collected this morning 

Sat up since 2000

Spares then scrap

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Rather classy beavertail.

[chaseracer]

Those early Masters are a fantastic piece of industrial design.

[quicksilver]

Allow me:

 

 

(When you're in the box where you compose your post, click on the icon beneath the smiley face that looks like a polaroid snap and paste the image's URL into the dialog box that appears.  You usually get the URL by right clicking on the 'target image' wherever you found it on the web).

Some cracking stuff here. I rememer seeing this one at a show and it's the most pointless van ever - you can't actually put anything in the back cos there's a wheel in the way.

[Cavcraft]

That recovery truck (AEC Mammoth?) is a work of art.