Mr_Bo11ox Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Ken Barlow BorniteIdentity 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSdriver Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 Rambling on... I can remember producing ads for the Bedford TJ which was being sold in Africa long after we had the TK over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercrocker Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 That Bedford is close, those Vikings are far away (or else it's the worlds largest lorry/smallest people). post-5367-0-74448100-1542922469.jpg Lego. martc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spottedlaurel Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I too remember an early which knocked around the village I grew up in, probably mid 1980s. It confused me at the time because it didn't look like the later ones which were moderately common at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 ESL470V was definitely a pre-facelift one. The claim of it being the first in Scotland is unlikely if they had been on the market for four years by then but maybe there wasn't much call for that sort of thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quicksilver Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I have vague memories of these things existing and looking pretty decrepit in the 1990s, never seen the earlier type though. Even the Bravas are getting thin on the ground nowadays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dome Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I have memories of my late uncle piloting one of these(column change gearshift?) up the unopened and mostly untarred Glenluce bypass in the 80s with a young me sat in the bed in a mixture of fear and terror. Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted November 23, 2018 Author Share Posted November 23, 2018 Column change indeed according to the brochure shot posted earlier. There are a couple of You Tube videos about the KB but I haven't watched them yet. dome 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthonyG Posted November 23, 2018 Share Posted November 23, 2018 I remember the odd second generation one around Herefordshire in the late 1980s but never knew they sold the early ones as Bedfords as well. There’s a dark blue Vauxhall Brava running around Cheltenham on an L plate, it is in damn good condition, original paintwork and very little rust, even the pickup bed is solid. Owned by a tiny backstreet garage which also ran a white Metro van a few years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangernomics Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 One appeared in Lovejoy. 6A0F3609-4EC5-4CF0-9C99-DE754822827D.jpeg https://www.imcdb.org/vehicle_57533-Bedford-KB-25-1984.htmlThat’s random in the extreme. A+ effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangernomics Posted November 24, 2018 Share Posted November 24, 2018 Ex father in law had one, made the scuttle out of biscuit tins when it dissolved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sawdustman Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 One for sale in Leicestershire: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1988-BEDFORD-KB-PICK-UP-FOR-RENOVATION/202517015111?hash=item2f26f46a47:g:vREAAOSworNb~Vc-:rk:9:pf:0 Lacquer Peel, LightBulbFun, Skizzer and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Snipes Posted December 3, 2018 Share Posted December 3, 2018 I remember a neighbour had (I presume) a later one with the square front years ago. The bed must have rotted out as it appeared one day with the whole back end rebuilt with wood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barrett Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Amazingly, here's another survivor, recently exhumed and coming up at ACA with no reserve! https://angliacarauctions.co.uk/classic/saturday-13th-april-2019/1989-bedford-kb-4x4-pick-up/ Sir Snipes, MorrisItalSLX, Jim Bell and 6 others 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted March 14, 2019 Author Share Posted March 14, 2019 Holy moly! sierraman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Blimey, I'd take that to Nando's alright twosmoke300 and HMC 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wuvvum Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 Wow! Thankfully the next KL auction is not just after pay day... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mk2_craig Posted March 14, 2019 Share Posted March 14, 2019 There were TONS of these the time I went to Malta, a couple of years ago. Actually Feb 2010. FFS Lacquer Peel 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Bell Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F323740455774 LightBulbFun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Split_Pin Posted March 17, 2019 Author Share Posted March 17, 2019 Ooft, look at that! Flatbed too, bet that can take a few haybales. Jim Bell 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anonymous user Posted March 17, 2019 Share Posted March 17, 2019 Back in the late 1980s the local country park had one for the park wardens to use. It had an interesting life, including ending up in the lake (it survived). While the warden was having words with some youths about their rowdy behaviour some of their mates let the brake off. The other warden had a deterrent to such actions as his Rottweiler used to sit in the cab guarding it. It did rot like anything and was replaced with a Land Rover, as of course they are not prone to rotting when dipped in a lake. Jim Bell and Lacquer Peel 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_Bo11ox Posted March 18, 2019 Share Posted March 18, 2019 That flatbed truck is so great my eyes have literally seized up from looking at it. I think its even got the column shift!!! Just fantastic. Split_Pin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisItalSLX Posted March 26, 2019 Share Posted March 26, 2019 Bedford KB - Australian Style Lacquer Peel and Datsuncog 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crofty98 Posted August 23, 2019 Share Posted August 23, 2019 I have the only Bedford kb41 on the uk roads since 2014 according to "how many left.com" anyone interested in buying it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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