What does Chippy Minton drive?

[RustbucketP6]

Do you remember Chippy Minton from Trumpton? Well I'm trying to work out what he drives. It's for an article I'm working on for Commercial Motor magazine. Here's a link to a picture: http://www.pierschristian.co.uk/harrop/ ... k/cg90.jpg

It's definitely got a hint of 1950s America to it - and isn't that bullet-type nose a bit Studebakeresque? Unusual to have suicide doors on a truck!

Any advice/guesses/opinions will be greatly appreciated.

And while we are on the subject, anyone care to guess what Postman Pat drives? http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Um9_ooyeJVU/S ... an-Pat.jpg

Thanks for your help.

[Lord Sterling]

Look to me like some sort of Studebaker:

 

 

But then there is a 49 Ford:

 

 

Though I could be (and am almost always) wrong.

 

I know the Postman Pat van strongly resembled a British made Blue Van seen in some obscure museum, I'm trying to find the thread........

[chaseracer]

And while we are on the subject, anyone care to guess what Postman Pat drives?

Bedford HA?

 

 

 

[trigger]

Bedford HA

 

I was going to say the same thing!

[Tayne]

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[pogweasel]

I suspect it is a russian thing aping the styling of americana a decade or two after the event.

Komrade Chippy would have it no other way, else fear a visit from the Chigley Secret Police.

Life was hard in the People's Communist Republic of Trumptonshire.

[seth]

 

A roadster version obviously.

[RustbucketP6]

Thank you very much for the suggestions.

[autofive]

 

the bastard child of CA pick-up and a stude

[pompei]

I've no idea what he drives but I love this ...

 

 

ENJOY!

[Albert Ross]

I love Nerys Hughes.

Bob Todd is a gargoyle.

[Guest]

I love Nerys Hughes.

Bob Todd is a gargoyle.

Allways loved H.M.H.B

[VWPowered]

 

ummm

 

 

[pompei]

What are they, VWP?

[Lord Sterling]

 

ummm

 

 

Thats exactly what I was thinking of. Didnt someone here take a photo of a Blue one in some obscure car museum. I think its called a 'Willam'

[Dead_E23]

There was one of those in the Bubble Car Museum at Byard's Leap - it's a Willam.

 

Unfortunately their website isn't very informative, so here's some info from a different museum in America: link

[mouseflakes]

What does Chippy Minton drive?

 

Nails

[wuvvum]

Pat's van isn't an HA - it has a single wiper hanging down from the top of the screen. It also has a two-tone horn, which HAs never did. Maybe it's some obscure Eastern European offering?

 

Apparently this is what Pat drives nowadays:

 

 

The original van must not meet Royal Mail emissions standards any more. What's the new one though? Looks Korean to me.

[Rod/b]

Looks like a MODEC ZEV to me:

 

[Mash]

Shouldn't that cat be dead by now, it must be knocking on 30 years old!

[Alexg]

 

 

 

[GJR 11L]

No idea what Chippy's vehicle's meant to be, but it does have a hint of Andy Saunders' work about it.

 

HMHB FTW here too,

 

They're playing our tune:

 

[Guest]

What are they, VWP?

French.