The Mighty Sherpa (LDV etc)

[Guest Lord Sward]

 You've more chances of winning the lottery.

 

 

Son, the fact he's got that Sherpa littering his drive already marks him out as one of lifes WINNAZ.

[Lankytim]

Yay! Another Y TDA reg. As mentioned somewhere else in this thread Y833 TDA was my regular van for a couple of years. I like the fact you want every single door in mint postie red. You've more chances of winning the lottery.

 

Yeah, this is what i'm finding. I can get a side loading door without a window but good versions of the the other panels are pretty hard to get hold of. I'm reluctant to use different colours and have to paint them. 

 

There's an issue with stress fractures that i'm dealing with ATM, the pillar for the sliding door has cracked once and been welded up but a fresh crack has appeared in the centre and at the bottom, presumably due to over exuberant use of the sliding door. The drivers door has practically fallen apart with cracks in the metal, the rear door on the passenger side has the spare wheel attached to it and again is full of stress cracks. The words "Post Brenhinol" can just about be seen ghosted into the sides of the van so I'm guessing constant hammering around bumpy Welsh villlage roads has taken it's toll!

 

BTW, is there any way of tracing the history of my van? The fleet number is 0781001

[CreepingJesus]

Good luck with that: post office vans don't so much have a service record, as a family tree. Or something biblical.

 

From 1st Brum's letter to the Postofficians, 23:12 "...and lo he said unto them, listen. Let the hearts and guts of your chariots intermingle, until all the bad stock has been cast asunder for use as bean tins and boat anchors. For shining in the glory of that hybridisation will emerge the chariot to end them all. Red of hue, and sliding of door, it shall chug and fart its way among the heathens until all are converted to our faith by its mighty reek. Amen brothers and sisters..."

[mk2_craig]

Worth ringing round the local Royal Mail depots? Its possible there are bits of crashed Pat Van Pilots hanging around in dusty corners.

[somewhatfoolish]

I was a postman for a few months in the mid noughties; at our delivery office the reg post was done by a grizzled ex-Royal Navy CPO in a pogweaseled Convoy Hightop. When they took it away and replaced it with a Maxxus that shat itself weekly he resigned and became a landscape gardener.

[Felly Magic]

There is the Post Office Vehicle Club, they might be able to help with things such as tracing the vehicle history

[beko1987]

Tesco prince's risborough earlier

 

 

Was on an X but it's how I remember them looking when I was a child!

[somewhatfoolish]

Tesco prince's risborough earlier

 

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Was on an X but it's how I remember them looking when I was a child!

A truly beautiful bit of framing there, top photoshiteing; the rows of shopping trolleys draw the eye to the wondrous yellow chod that sits yonder, the light at the end of a tunnel.

[matty879]

Yeah, this is what i'm finding. I can get a side loading door without a window but good versions of the the other panels are pretty hard to get hold of. I'm reluctant to use different colours and have to paint them. 

 

There's an issue with stress fractures that i'm dealing with ATM, the pillar for the sliding door has cracked once and been welded up but a fresh crack has appeared in the centre and at the bottom, presumably due to over exuberant use of the sliding door. The drivers door has practically fallen apart with cracks in the metal, the rear door on the passenger side has the spare wheel attached to it and again is full of stress cracks. The words "Post Brenhinol" can just about be seen ghosted into the sides of the van so I'm guessing constant hammering around bumpy Welsh villlage roads has taken it's toll!

 

BTW, is there any way of tracing the history of my van? The fleet number is 0781001

have you tried siddals near mow cop? he has loads of panels for every model

[Cavcraft]

https://www.ldvpartsdirect.com/

 

There used to be a place in Bootle (Liverpool) I'm sure that only broke LDVs for spares, but I can't seem to find the details on the net at the moment.

[Lankytim]

I'll have to try that Mow cop fella. I've seen the LDV parts direct site before and they seem to be laughably expensive. I've got plenty of time to scour eBay for panels when it goes off for welding. I've found a side loading door for £20 but it doesn't have the window and Cba to cut it to fit one. May just got for it anyway.

[beko1987]

 

It looked alright inside tbh. All the instruments were in the middle of the dash though, presumably for easier lhd/rhd conversion?

[wuvvum]

I quite liked my Maxus.  Build quality was appalling and the turning circle was a bit shit, but it drove nicely enough and went like the clappers - would outdrag my Movano despite being the same size and 20bhp down.  I guess that's one advantage of having body panels made out of tin foil.

[beko1987]

This one was nicely pogweaseled too!

[twosmoke300]

Ex RM ?

[Yoss]

Found this today, looking resplendent* in in some sort of livery that's been very cleverly designed to not look like a livery at all. It looks like random splashes of black and yellow and it's only when you look at the pictures afterwards you realise someone has actuality designed it that way.

In fabulous company too. PT Cruiser, ZT190 and three E36s.

[Lankytim]

Looks like Dazzle camouflage on a WW1 dreadnought.

[Guest Lord Sward]

One of the lads on MacD is making one good Convoy from 2.  Thats means V8, LSD & Air Springs.  BEAST.  Oh, and its going to be styled to look like a Rover Group Racing back-up vehicle.

[Yoss]

This one has a British Rail look to it I think.

Also comes with a free mattress as all good vans do.

[Lacquer Peel]

Local authority look.

[500tops]

Luton in Plymouth

[Pillock]

Local authority look.

Aye, I'm pretty sure British Rail was dead and buried by 2002, they used to use earlier models in similar hues with similar boxes though.

[Guest Lord Sward]

I once watched a BR LDV Convoy Crew Cab LWB fully laden go off road to repair a section of ECML track.  Its off road ability was astonishing. 

[Yoss]

Aye, I'm pretty sure British Rail was dead and buried by 2002, they used to use earlier models in similar hues with similar boxes though.

Ok, Network Rail look then. British Rail was indeed long gone by then as was Railtrack but they all used yellow as NR still do for their trains.

[Guest Lord Sward]

Its called Highway Yellow in Washwood Heath.

[catsinthewelder]

In 2002 rail maintainance was provided by private companies such as Jarvis.

 

Jarvis painted everything maroon,  it was pointed out to me by one of thier employees that the colour was a standard Ford colour that all of thier Transit, Connect and Courier vans were supplied in.   Jarvis didn't do all of the rail maintainance but Balfour Beatty seemed to do the rest and they painted thier vans white and blue.

 

Yellow was avoided as all of the ex-BR machines they had inherited were yellow.

[somewhatfoolish]

What's with the bin-motor-esque soft toy zip tied to the grille; why do bin motors have soft toys strapped Ben-Hur-like to the front? Do all bin men hate teddy bears?

[beko1987]

Well look what I just found on my facebook

 

 

 

Quite a clean mot history too by the looks of it

[mk2_craig]

Couple of bulbs for MOT, riiiiight.

[beko1987]

True, ill edit my last sentence to "quite a clean mot history, friendly tester?"