Sherpa Freight Rover LDV alert

[Cavcraft]

I think it's high time we had a thread dedicated to the glory of the Sherpa van, and it's later guises.

(2) Marketplace – 1996 LDV 200 | Facebook

[Dave_Q]

https://www.facebook.com/share/1EpnqzwtLQ/

[eddyramrod]

^Actually I like that.  I've just looked up the MoT history, and OK, it's got less than a week to run, but the last few have seen a shitload of welding, plus work to the brakes.  I think this is a better prospect than the yellow 200 we saw earlier, at least on paper.

Naturally the timing is crap, because I haven't got any money at the moment!

[warren t claim]

8 minutes ago, eddyramrod said:

^Actually I like that.  I've just looked up the MoT history, and OK, it's got less than a week to run, but the last few have seen a shitload of welding, plus work to the brakes.  I think this is a better prospect than the yellow 200 we saw earlier, at least on paper.

Naturally the timing is crap, because I haven't got any money at the moment!

What's that sound I can hear from here????

[andy18s]

[comfortablynumb]

I used to work for a bloke with an ldv400, biggest piece of shit I've driven, wandered all over the road so badly we expected to be pulled for drink driving on the night shift.

He had a couple, one met it's end when the Muppet yard hand put a load of paper in the back, backed it up to the (lit) incinerator, put half the papers on, and went for a fag , leaving the rear doors wide open.

The inevitable happened, the van was reduced to ashes!

We all thought it was brilliant, but the owner was practically in tears (probably more from the thought of having to spend money to get something else!)

The Muppet yard hand? "It's not my fault!"

That's why he was a Muppet, I wouldn't let him in the workshop....

[sierraman]

Someone near us had an ex Ambulance one they’d converted to a camper. Presumably they enjoyed being told to fuck off from various campsites up and down the country. There’s no disguising an old ambulance of that era, it looks like exactly what it is, a scruffy old ambulance. 😂

[eddyramrod]

26 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Someone near us had an ex Ambulance one they’d converted to a camper. Presumably they enjoyed being told to fuck off from various campsites up and down the country. There’s no disguising an old ambulance of that era, it looks like exactly what it is, a scruffy old ambulance. 😂

You're not wrong...

[Cavcraft]

Freight Rover Sherpa 200 Pick Up..no Reserve..can Deliver | eBay UK

[eddyramrod]

13 hours ago, eddyramrod said:

 the yellow 200 we saw earlier, 

As I was saying!

1 minute ago, Cavcraft said:

Freight Rover Sherpa 200 Pick Up..no Reserve..can Deliver | eBay UK

 

[Cavcraft]

ldv convoy 400 LWB | eBay UK

'Starts with a boost'

Shame you don't know anyone with a spare battery, M8

[eddyramrod]

That battery's probably scrap anyway.  Doesn't matter, I have one here.  Now who's in Norwich that could go and look at that "welding to rear of chassis" that it allegedly needs?

[D.E]

Daf 400

[New POD]

5 hours ago, D.E said:

Daf 400

So I showed this picture to a volunteer at the Daf Museum this afternoon.  And said "where are the vans" 

Unfortunately I don't think they like to be reminded of their history. Edit: look carefully in the picture to the left of the organisation chart. It looks like the Daf400 ? 

Sorry about the shadow above. 

They only had 2 vehicles that would be in the same size class ; a Pickup

And a police van 

I only asked him to wind him up. 

Edited June 22, 2025 by New POD
Edited because I see a Sherpa

[andy18s]

[neil72]

Here's a few local ones, the two pick-ups are long gone now!

 

[R Lutz]

2 hours ago, New POD said:

So I showed this picture to a volunteer at the Daf Museum this afternoon.  And said "where are the vans" 

Unfortunately I don't think they like to be reminded of their history. Edit: look carefully in the picture to the left of the organisation chart. It looks like the Daf400 ? 

Not true; me and @andrew e went a few years ago prior to the Frankfurt motorshow and they had a very unusual spec LDV 400 crew cab pick-up but with standard wheelbase and single wheel rear axle. What's more, you could play in it. Let me go into the archives 

[warren t claim]

Here in Wirral, there's still a Y reg Freight Rover pick up working for a living in the hands of an old bloke.

[R Lutz]

Just now, warren t claim said:

Here in Wirral, there's still a Y reg Freight Rover pick up working for a living in the hands of an old bloke.

Sherpas don't quit; neither do their drivers. 

[warren t claim]

1 minute ago, warren t claim said:

Here in Wirral, there's still a Y reg Freight Rover pick up working for a living in the hands of an old bloke.

I'll try and grab a pic so all you Sherpa pervs can shoot your "Lode Lane" over it.

[rustdevil]

My memories of a ldv pilot with a Perkins prima in it although can't be sure of the engine because no one ever lifted the bonnet on it, was driving with  the sliding door open coping with the quarter of turn play in the steering and getting 2nd year wheel spin on the turn from Stratford Broadway into romford road there was only one other lad in the firm who would drive,he loved it too . Good times.

[Dyslexic Viking]

We were never lucky enough to get them up here. But I have seen one come up for sale, it was a ex Royal Mail LDV short wheelbase I guess it was bought by a Brit who moved here and used it to transport his stuff and had it registered in Norway.

[warren t claim]

The LWB LDV 400 Convoy used to enjoy a huge amount of the XL 3.5t van market that has now been dominated by the Merc Sprinter.

[shampooefficient]

NMP but saw this in York a couple of years ago...

[R Lutz]

16 minutes ago, warren t claim said:

I'll try and grab a pic so all you Sherpa pervs can shoot your "Lode Lane" over it.

You mean 'get your Ward End away'?

[stuboy]

drove 1 of these at the college, very noisey and slooooowwww.. and steering wheel was small

[R Lutz]

 

[R Lutz]

[R Lutz]

DAF factory museum LDV400.

[Snipes]

My school had a (i guess) LDV 200 minibus. I don't recall a great deal about it other than the distinctive graphic down the side. "Combi", possibily?

Edit: oh it had the square lights and body coloured (white) grille.