Akeley Van Nats pics

[quicksilver]

Having nothing else to do this afternoon I decided to make the short trip to Akeley for the Van Nats classic and custom van show. Lots of fancy customised stuff with airbrushed paint and massive V8s but also some unmodified vehicles. No pineapple VWs though, which was nice.

 

 

 

 

 

This was running a 5.7 Chevy V8

 

Six wheels on my wagon

 

Somewhere under there is an Escort van

 

This appears to be ex US Air Force

 

 

6-wheel V8 tipper with centre lift-axle!

 

Genuine Thames minibus

 

One of a couple of Talbot Expresses

 

Early Cargo with Serck plates lurking in the corner

 

 

 

 

The Zombie Outbreak Response Team

 

 

 

Little Austin looked out of place

 

This was airbrushed with images of the band Madness. Quite apt really.

 

 

The yellow CF is powered by this supercharged Jensen engine. 750bhp and 0-100 in 8 seconds!

 

Not a van but my postman's pride and joy

 

All the way from Belgium. I bet this guy doesn't suffer from road rage!

 

A small Airstream

 

Um Bongo

 

The Sintra's American cousin

 

Weird sideways folding caravan

 

Car park OLLI. Looks like it's lived several lives already.

 

As is customary, I have written a blog post about the event which can be found here: http://rustyoldrubbish.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/visiting-van-nats.html

[Cavcraft]

Class! If you didn't go to shows like this, you'd barely know such stuff (old vans with murals, etc) still existed.

[cort16]

Some amazing stuff there.

[skattrd]

Great stuff there.

Sitting in that CF with the Jensen motor next to you must be quite something.

[Matt]

If those were cars modified to some of those tastes we'd be laughing I'm sure of it.

[alf892]

That mk1 Transit lwb is sublime........a really good looking van

[mercrocker]

Class! If you didn't go to shows like this, you'd barely know such stuff (old vans with murals, etc) still existed.

 

My thoughts exactly, I thought the scene had died out completely. Its made me want one again (remember Steve Stringer?)

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Was a there an over the top muralled red lwb mk1 Transit there. I saw just such a vehicle towing a caravan south on the M1 tonight in convoy with a Suburban, possibly that one with the subtle plastic bull bar, and 3 Dayvans. They looked furrin, I assumed the Tranny was one of those Kraut Fire engines that seem to outnumber all other old Transits these days.

[sheffcortinacentre]

remember a few of those from years ago.

I last saw that mid eng'ed CF  in kings lynn over 10 years ago & thought it was great.

 

those rapido caravans are really amazeing things , sold mine a couple of years ago & now have an esterl pop up one

[plasticvandan]

was going to say it was a rapido,a mate of mine lived in one for 3 years,towed it behind a Reliant Kitten!

[mouseflakes]

Call it 'EU Madness' or whatever you like, but EU Agricultural policy states:

 

"In exchange for some corner of a foreign field that is forever England, there must be some corner of an English field that is forever 1978."

 

I think you found that corner.