*If you're a fan of older vans and pickups, please click Like and Subscribe. Any comments you have about the classics shown here (perhaps you used to drive one, or own one now?) please post to the comments section below, same for corrections etc (PS I know the yellow van near the end is a Jowett Bradford, I just started reading the name on the side before I corrected myself!) Thanks for watching!* 😀
Thanks for the feedback, don't forget to look around the rest of the channel as old vans and pickups appear in many of the other videos (including one I just uploaded today on the 1/2 Bedford PC vans).
I was born in Auckland in 1951 after a dash to the hospital in a baby Austin. All the British makes are very familiar and I owned a A40 van in younger days. I currently have a 1952 Commer 15 hwt that my father bought new and is still going well. Thanks for the nostalgic slide show.
Being an antique car and truck guy from the U.S.A., how refreshing to see the british side of things. I can honestly say that I have never, ever seen any of these vehicles on our side of the pond...I would definitely remember them if I did. Closest I've come is a '65 Cortina Mk.1 family wagon (shooting brake?) I had for about a year to go with my '66 Lotus Cortina. Wonderful, fun cars...but NO parts in the states...everything had to come from Britain....kind of kills the fun! Thanx for Posting, Bravo!
Thanks-another great set of pics.Last week here in Aust saw a lovely totally original looking Ford 400 E truck with a Rover V8 out of sight in the engine bay somehow and gear linkages for the auto connected to the original column shift-very clever and totally innocuous looking !
Im Australian and grew up in the 60s and 70s, and remember in particular the BMC cars and commercials...loved them. My favorite was a 1950 Armstrong Siddeley utility coupe. Along with my first car, a 1951 Vauxhall Velox. The building Company I worked for back then had a Morris Minor pickup, us young guys loved thrashing the daylights out of it. My dad had Vauxhall Velox and Wyverns when I was a kid. "Pommy" Cars have a special place in my heart. The young really are robbed in today's society, every car is a rebadged version of some other stereotypical car, nothing unique anymore...
Wonderful memories, my Dad drove us (5 kids) around in Bedford CA Dormobiles. I joined Austin (BL by then) at Longbridge in Sept 1969 as a Student Apprentice and my first job was fitting grommets under the bonnet of A55 pick ups in Trentham Assembly Shop alongside the Austin (Mk 1) 1800 landcrabs. Happy days. 25000 people employed at Longbridge then. All gone now.
I love your classic car site Especially the commentary because I can’t possibly remember all of the names and types of vehicles I can however remember what vehicles I’ve travelled in throughout my life and where I remember seeing these vehicles To know what model they are really helps My dad used to take me to the London to Brighton commercial vehicle rally when I was a child and the car one as well I enjoyed seeing them on the road and talking to the owners at Brighton parade😊
Partic nice to see the Marina & Maestro, vans I can identify with… I’m no youngster now and these 'later' vehicles are those I remember from when I were a Boy
Loved this video. Learned to drive in a Austin A40 Countryman, coulomb change as well, went on to own, MK1 and MK consul and Zephyr convertibles pre 1970.not long after I started oval racing and for a while used a tired but sturdy Bedford CA long wheel base camper van as a tow vehicle for Bangers, the trip from just inside the M25 to Iwade near Isle of Sheppey was fun after you crossed the Medway on the M2, as the CA`s 1500 commercial revved its nuts in 2nd then 1st as we climbed the hill towing well over ton and half uphill (ready to race A60 plus numerous spare wheels, tools petrol & water containers) had both sliding doors open, heater flat out on hot and the engine access flap in front of the windscreen open adding extra air to everything getting rather hot.. It got us there much to our and others amusement, then after a days racing got us home again bless it.. One day i felt the rear end give a strange "wobble" going round country lanes, the rear chassis had give way before the axle - Oh what to do ? so jacked it up, lined up the break, cleaned it all up best i could, found a length of angle iron the size i needed, and welded it all up/ never troubled me again.. Down the bottom of my road sits an early CA truck, the cabs off but everything Is there, "waiting for it to be restored" !! - been there over 10 years covered with shredded tarps over it sadly, the elderly owner will never do it sadly but wont let it go either..Usual story.... Thanks for the video.. Ian - UK.
My first car was a minivan, which I bought for £35. I drove it down from Birmingham to my parents in Bath two days after I bought it, spent the weekend repairing the rust in the front wings, drove it back to Birmingham, and wrote it off three days later jumping a red traffic light next to Edgbaston Cricket Ground. Happy days!!
I always loved the old "Painter & Decorator" signs. Most of the painters I knew back in those days wouldn't have known what "Decorator" meant! But it was on the sign...😂😂
Loving these, dad had an Austin Morris J4, replaced his MG Magnette, and the J4 was followed by a Marina estate. I might be in the market for a pick up or van next year. I'm returning to UK after several years in New Zealand and i'll be looking at starting a light engineering or restoration business, so something like that would be ideal !
I bought an imp for £5 in 1974, the rust was terrible I found 2 second hand doors and filled the sills with chicken wire to hold the fibre glass together, and used waterproof emulsion paint. Passed the MOT. Wouldn't chance it today!
I remember Portsmouth Corporation had a Morris PV van 50 odd years ago. It was painted up a bit like the buses and the van could be seen out and about and parked near various bus shelters- some of which were cast iron structures from the tramway days and employees would be painting them up with aluminium paint- everything was silver.
The first vehicle I drove as a 14/15 year old apprentice mechanic was a Morris J type. The first vehicle I owned was a Fordson 10 cwt van, in blue, which I paid 6 quid for ;)
Great to see these old vans. My first vehicle was a 1967 Bedford HA. it was just a year old when I bought it from my local Vauxhall/ Bedford dealer for £385 (JBE275E)
We had to re-shell an HA van following an accident. The damaged shell was put outside the workshop. Somebody had a bright idea. Fill the shell with balloons filled with oxygen, run a taper of petrol to the van and see what happens. BOOM! the square shaped van became oval.
Living in a North Yorkshire village as a schoolboy (1960’s) I picked up a Ford/Fordson 10 van, ever so cheap to have fun driving around the farm tracks. The first time that it rained I found out why it was cheap. The back of my head became wet & mud started to build up on the inside of the windscreen! The rear wheel arches inside the van were full of holes. My mum taught me to drive on the road in an Anglia van. Somewhere around 30 to 40 MPH it would shake & jump around the road like something possessed. She told me to put my foot hard down on the throttle & it eventually smoothed out but for sure it would go through the same crazy wheel wobble as I slowed down. Aren’t vans fun!
Hi, great video! I have couple of Cobs myself plus a Fordson E83w that used to be a partscar, now lacking the drivers' side rear wheelarch. Any idea where I could get one?
Hi, glad you liked it! I think you would probably have to have a wheelarch made, the chances of finding a replacement are very small. Anyone who fabricates bodies for vintage cars could make one, ideally using the wheel arch from the other side as a template.
Sir, ford motor Co England, made mk 11 zephyr ute's not many though, the difference to the Australian one's was that the tray followed the height of the rear guards. I exported 1 to New Zealand a few years ago, it is supposedly 1 of less than 20 made, under going restoration next
Standard 10, morris minor pickup with rare ali tub one of the last minor vans with austin badge ,morris all steel pickup j2? commer equilant,Bedfor CA lwb van serris 3,nearly all the serris LR's except 80's ( not keen on them) but 86+107 favourites,commer Bantam tipper,Transit 35cwt drop side custom cab,Amglebox van,cummins CA ice cream Vans, bedford HA ha Renault 4 van and rare piickup ,loads of period cars and estate cars pre 1975 ,they often came cheap and need of repair ,which was always easy to do even if it was an engine or a gearbox ,fixed over a weekend ready for work on a monday morning,, were hey happydays?,Yes I think they were! It was a time of selfsuficiency, which gave great contentment.
Those three wheel vans with the motorcycle girder forks were made by Reliant. There was one in our road in the 1950's when I was a lad. I used to drive a Morris J in the 1960's. I was bidding on one at an auction, it went for £22, I only had £20.
I have driven series 1&2 Land Rovers, a J3 and a Bedford Blitz (CF) mini buses in the army. In civvy street Transits, Commer PB, J2, and an awful JD diesel van, similar to what the PO used to have in the 70s. I have also driven Mazda pick ups and a Ford P100 pick up.
That gas turbine engine sounds very interesting.. Thanks for the vid mate.. Iam from Rochdale u sound like ur from not two far away from were I am these cars are so pleasing to the eye..what happened.!!!!???
The triumph courier van belonged to my uncle. Frank buck. when he bought it the van had windows in the sides he removed them and put steel panels back in it had it re sprayed and then sold it i have some pics of it.
Thanks for watching, sometimes I read the vehicle registrations just to help me locate any notes I may have made on a piece of paper I'm holding while recording.
Here is a bit more info on the first of your wonderful Pickups & Vans, 1935 Austin Light 12/4 Pickup Registration No: SJ 848 Chassis No: H23571 Registered on the Isle of Arran in 1935 Purchased by the war department in 1939, census number L4411082 still carried on bonnet Number 24 of only 48 produced
The standard vanguard it’s nice weren’t the utes only in aus and that’s a phase 1a with the short doors and chrome hood emblem the earlyer ones never had a emblem on the hood and the second standard vanguard is a phase 2 has a different grill the third is also a phase 2 and the barnfind one is also a phase 2 looks good rust wise
Lord Herbert Austin opened up export markets around the world in the 1920's and 30's the Austin Seven was sold around the world under license and the Austin Seven became the base design for the first cars produced under license for Datsun, BMW, Lotus, McClaren (Bruce raced an Austin 7 Ulster) and Jaguar (emerging from the SS Swallow Sidecar company) just to name a few currently quite well known companies. And now we can't even export sausages to Northern Ireland. oh dear!
I restored an Austin 1923 tourer that arrive to me as a flat bed pickup I also have a Bradford Delux Van 1953 I bought a 1975 Moris Marina Pick up brand new I live in New Zealand they tell me the 1923 Austin in now in the Austin Museum in the UK.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
Just got 83WF/A C559385 trying to verify year 528B/339 barn find Alberta Canada now in Ontario any help some parts needed tail light , left window, front hood hood down center piece hope to keep 90 percent orginal paint green and black fenders two stuck valves may need gasket to do motor only 13883 miles on truck last time on road 1962 but was driven in fairs
There's no option to add photos to RUclips posts as far as I know. You'd find it useful going on Facebook as there's an active E83W group on there that will be able to help, including several members in Canada
@@oldclassiccarUK And then we can't hear what you have to say, I'm not making a big deal out of it I just found it repetitive and a little bit annoying , other than that great job!
OK let me caveat what I am about to say that I may be repeating myself and if so sorry, age has it's price. My farther purchased a brand new A35 van (because it was cheaper than a car) and then put a seat in the rear for my brother and sister, being the youngest I got shoved right at the back between the rear made up seat and the rear door, my luxury was a piece of 4 inch foam however had we been rear ended I would have been strawberry jam :(
Some are Fordson, others are Thames, but all made by Ford. In fact E83W was only an internal model identification, they were never sold as E83Ws, only 10cwt vans (or pickups etc). Thanks for watching!
Very sad to say that, regardless of what country you're from, it's very difficult to follow the sequence and take in the commentary because of the speed of the clips. Being an avid collector of British vehicles, from real to models, I got so far but, very sadly, I had to stop. Not being given enough time to absorb the whole content, took the good away from it. I sincerely hope that this will be helpful / useful. Many thanks. John.
Hi there and thank you for your speedy reply. Re your suggestion, I would be reluctant to do that because, while I'm no genius with computers / phones, I would imagine that, whilst running at half speed, this would only serve to interfere with the sound by distorting it, thereby ruining the description / s of these beautiful memories /treasures. For what it is worth to you, my other main interests are British vintage motorcycles. In particular, ones with Villiers engines. ( my late elder brother reared me on them ). I have a 1955, three speed 150cc 8e Norman B2S with a Villiers engine. And, a 1953 DOT 197CC Scrambler with a three speed 8e Villiers engine. ( apologies if I've bored you ). Both machines are still in top condition, with the Norman taxed and insured. Many thanks again for reading this. Best regards. John.
*If you're a fan of older vans and pickups, please click Like and Subscribe. Any comments you have about the classics shown here (perhaps you used to drive one, or own one now?) please post to the comments section below, same for corrections etc (PS I know the yellow van near the end is a Jowett Bradford, I just started reading the name on the side before I corrected myself!) Thanks for watching!* 😀
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I loved the sideshow from the start to the end. Thank you for sharing.
Glad you liked it! There are plenty of others, please see this playlist:
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Really good to see the old British vans and utes again - thanks for uploading the pictures.
Thanks for the feedback, don't forget to look around the rest of the channel as old vans and pickups appear in many of the other videos (including one I just uploaded today on the 1/2 Bedford PC vans).
Thanks for sharing this great collection of to often overlooked but so useful vehicles.
Great collection of great trucks and vans. Great commentary also. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Nice to see some of the old vehicles that were around when I was a child , thank you .
I remember using HA Van's on the Railway enjoyed the video of the Van's and pickups its shows how popular these vehicles are all the best Paul
Very enjoyable half hour thanks for the video
Glad you found it of interest
I have just got 83WF/A C559385 trying to verify year 528B/339 any help would love
I was born in Auckland in 1951 after a dash to the hospital in a baby Austin. All the British makes are very familiar and I owned a A40 van in younger days. I currently have a 1952 Commer 15 hwt that my father bought new and is still going well. Thanks for the nostalgic slide show.
Thanks for the feedback, the Commer sounds neat
Being an antique car and truck guy from the U.S.A., how refreshing to see the british side of things.
I can honestly say that I have never, ever seen any of these vehicles on our side of the pond...I would definitely remember them if I did.
Closest I've come is a '65
Cortina Mk.1 family wagon
(shooting brake?) I had for about a year to go with my '66 Lotus Cortina. Wonderful, fun cars...but NO parts in the states...everything had to come from Britain....kind of kills the fun!
Thanx for Posting, Bravo!
Glad you found the photos of interest, I bet most of the lorries featured in the other photo vids won't have ever made it to the USA either.
New to the site,fantastic info thanks so much
Glad you found it ok! videos are being added regularly so please keep an eye on the channel
Slipped in to a pensive mood seeing these old generations RIP once queen and kings on roads sharing the feelings of the forgotten users.
I still make the interiors for many of these Classics, Carpets, and Headlining,s It is lovely to see the different Classic cars,
I owned and drove quite a few of these vans at one time or another, does that make me a classic!
Great video and nicely narrated, thank you for putting that together Mr. J
My pleasure! check out some of the other vids if older commercials are particularly of interest, cheers
Thanks-another great set of pics.Last week here in Aust saw a lovely totally original looking Ford 400 E truck with a Rover V8 out of sight in the engine bay somehow and gear linkages for the auto connected to the original column shift-very clever and totally innocuous looking !
Im Australian and grew up in the 60s and 70s, and remember in particular the BMC cars and commercials...loved them. My favorite was a 1950 Armstrong Siddeley utility coupe. Along with my first car, a 1951 Vauxhall Velox. The building Company I worked for back then had a Morris Minor pickup, us young guys loved thrashing the daylights out of it. My dad had Vauxhall Velox and Wyverns when I was a kid. "Pommy" Cars have a special place in my heart. The young really are robbed in today's society, every car is a rebadged version of some other stereotypical car, nothing unique anymore...
Wonderful memories, my Dad drove us (5 kids) around in Bedford CA Dormobiles. I joined Austin (BL by then) at Longbridge in Sept 1969 as a Student Apprentice and my first job was fitting grommets under the bonnet of A55 pick ups in Trentham Assembly Shop alongside the Austin (Mk 1) 1800 landcrabs. Happy days. 25000 people employed at Longbridge then. All gone now.
I love your classic car site
Especially the commentary because I can’t possibly remember all of the names and types of vehicles
I can however remember what vehicles I’ve travelled in throughout my life and where I remember seeing these vehicles
To know what model they are really helps
My dad used to take me to the London to Brighton commercial vehicle rally when I was a child and the car one as well
I enjoyed seeing them on the road and talking to the owners at Brighton parade😊
Hi, glad you find the site and RUclips channel of interest, thanks for your comments!
Partic nice to see the Marina & Maestro, vans I can identify with… I’m no youngster now and these 'later' vehicles are those I remember from when I were a Boy
Loved this video. Learned to drive in a Austin A40 Countryman, coulomb change as well, went on to own, MK1 and MK consul and Zephyr convertibles pre 1970.not long after I started oval racing and for a while used a tired but sturdy Bedford CA long wheel base camper van as a tow vehicle for Bangers, the trip from just inside the M25 to Iwade near Isle of Sheppey was fun after you crossed the Medway on the M2, as the CA`s 1500 commercial revved its nuts in 2nd then 1st as we climbed the hill towing well over ton and half uphill (ready to race A60 plus numerous spare wheels, tools petrol & water containers) had both sliding doors open, heater flat out on hot and the engine access flap in front of the windscreen open adding extra air to everything getting rather hot.. It got us there much to our and others amusement, then after a days racing got us home again bless it.. One day i felt the rear end give a strange "wobble" going round country lanes, the rear chassis had give way before the axle - Oh what to do ? so jacked it up, lined up the break, cleaned it all up best i could, found a length of angle iron the size i needed, and welded it all up/ never troubled me again.. Down the bottom of my road sits an early CA truck, the cabs off but everything Is there, "waiting for it to be restored" !! - been there over 10 years covered with shredded tarps over it sadly, the elderly owner will never do it sadly but wont let it go either..Usual story.... Thanks for the video.. Ian - UK.
Ha great memories, you're old CA was a plucky little fella!
My first car was a minivan, which I bought for £35. I drove it down from Birmingham to my parents in Bath two days after I bought it, spent the weekend repairing the rust in the front wings, drove it back to Birmingham, and wrote it off three days later jumping a red traffic light next to Edgbaston Cricket Ground. Happy days!!
Great stuff - very nostalgic.
I always loved the old "Painter & Decorator" signs. Most of the painters I knew back in those days wouldn't have known what "Decorator" meant! But it was on the sign...😂😂
Love the running commentary,,
glad you liked it!
Excellent video. I'm in the states particularly like the vanguard's , fordsons,and. That military truck . I want 2 of each.
Loving these, dad had an Austin Morris J4, replaced his MG Magnette, and the J4 was followed by a Marina estate.
I might be in the market for a pick up or van next year. I'm returning to UK after several years in New Zealand and i'll be looking at starting a light engineering or restoration business, so something like that would be ideal !
Excellent video well done top man 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Thanks Phil - one tries :)
Another nice vid - cheers, Les.
Passed my test in Austin A55 in 1960 loved the bench seat and column gear change
I passed mine in my dad's Vauxhall Cresta in1966, Kgn Jamaica West Indies.
I was born in 1952 and remember I these old trucks fond memories from my child hood.
In the 1960 you could pick up a Austin 7 for five £5 second hand.
I bought an imp for £5 in 1974, the rust was terrible I found 2 second hand doors and filled the sills with chicken wire to hold the fibre glass together, and used waterproof emulsion paint. Passed the MOT. Wouldn't chance it today!
I remember Portsmouth Corporation had a Morris PV van 50 odd years ago. It was painted up a bit like the buses and the van could be seen out and about and parked near various bus shelters- some of which were cast iron structures from the tramway days and employees would be painting them up with aluminium paint- everything was silver.
Good stuff, an old friend of mine is restoring a Morris PV
The schamel ..spelt wrongly.. Was a very special vehicle ....I love all these vehicles much respect for the people who keep them alive!!!!
The first vehicle I drove as a 14/15 year old apprentice mechanic was a Morris J type. The first vehicle I owned was a Fordson 10 cwt van, in blue, which I paid 6 quid for ;)
like this vid brings back many happy memories
Glad you liked it Johnny, please keep an eye on the channel for future uploads along the same lines
Great to see these old vans. My first vehicle was a 1967 Bedford HA. it was just a year old when I bought it from my local Vauxhall/ Bedford dealer for £385 (JBE275E)
We had to re-shell an HA van following an accident. The damaged shell was put outside the workshop. Somebody had a bright idea. Fill the shell with balloons filled with oxygen, run a taper of petrol to the van and see what happens. BOOM! the square shaped van became oval.
Living in a North Yorkshire village as a schoolboy (1960’s) I picked up a Ford/Fordson 10 van, ever so cheap to have fun driving around the farm tracks. The first time that it rained I found out why it was cheap. The back of my head became wet & mud started to build up on the inside of the windscreen! The rear wheel arches inside the van were full of holes.
My mum taught me to drive on the road in an Anglia van. Somewhere around 30 to 40 MPH it would shake & jump around the road like something possessed. She told me to put my foot hard down on the throttle & it eventually smoothed out but for sure it would go through the same crazy wheel wobble as I slowed down. Aren’t vans fun!
Hi, great video! I have couple of Cobs myself plus a Fordson E83w that used to be a partscar, now lacking the drivers' side rear wheelarch. Any idea where I could get one?
Hi, glad you liked it! I think you would probably have to have a wheelarch made, the chances of finding a replacement are very small. Anyone who fabricates bodies for vintage cars could make one, ideally using the wheel arch from the other side as a template.
Sir, ford motor Co England, made mk 11 zephyr ute's not many though, the difference to the Australian one's was that the tray followed the height of the rear guards. I exported 1 to New Zealand a few years ago, it is supposedly 1 of less than 20 made, under going restoration next
Standard 10, morris minor pickup with rare ali tub one of the last minor vans with austin badge ,morris all steel pickup j2? commer equilant,Bedfor CA lwb van serris 3,nearly all the serris LR's except 80's ( not keen on them) but 86+107 favourites,commer Bantam tipper,Transit 35cwt drop side custom cab,Amglebox van,cummins CA ice cream Vans, bedford HA ha Renault 4 van and rare piickup ,loads of period cars and estate cars pre 1975 ,they often came cheap and need of repair ,which was always easy to do even if it was an engine or a gearbox ,fixed over a weekend ready for work on a monday morning,, were hey happydays?,Yes I think they were! It was a time of selfsuficiency, which gave great contentment.
The P.J. Evans van was a good one to see. Ken Rawlings worked there, an interestng fellow. Google him to learn more.
Those three wheel vans with the motorcycle girder forks were made by Reliant. There was one in our road in the 1950's when I was a lad. I used to drive a Morris J in the 1960's. I was bidding on one at an auction, it went for £22, I only had £20.
Thanks for watching, funnily enough we spotted a three-wheel Reliant in a town a few days ago
I have driven series 1&2 Land Rovers, a J3 and a Bedford Blitz (CF) mini buses in the army.
In civvy street Transits, Commer PB, J2, and an awful JD diesel van, similar to what the PO used to have in the 70s. I have also driven Mazda pick ups and a Ford P100 pick up.
My dad had a A35 van from new cream coloured. Those were the days.
Great little vans aren't they
That gas turbine engine sounds very interesting.. Thanks for the vid mate.. Iam from Rochdale u sound like ur from not two far away from were I am these cars are so pleasing to the eye..what happened.!!!!???
I had an ex GPO J type van with side windows and fitted seats when courting my wife much to her embarrassment, oh to have it now!!
Prachtig!!!
I'd love a classic with off-road ability that can sit 6....any ideas?
I wonder if a Land Rover 109 or 110 would seat 6, not sure if they were available with a third row of seats or not?
Can Bedford come back and start to build vehicle's again and triumph.
The triumph courier van belonged to my uncle. Frank buck. when he bought it the van had windows in the sides he removed them and put steel panels back in it had it re sprayed and then sold it i have some pics of it.
Hi, thanks for the background info!
Very enjoyable. I prefer videos like these where you don't read the tag numbers.
Thanks for watching, sometimes I read the vehicle registrations just to help me locate any notes I may have made on a piece of paper I'm holding while recording.
Here is a bit more info on the first of your wonderful Pickups & Vans, 1935 Austin Light 12/4 Pickup
Registration No: SJ 848
Chassis No: H23571
Registered on the Isle of Arran in 1935
Purchased by the war department in 1939, census number L4411082 still carried on bonnet
Number 24 of only 48 produced
Thanks Neil!
The standard vanguard it’s nice weren’t the utes only in aus and that’s a phase 1a with the short doors and chrome hood emblem the earlyer ones never had a emblem on the hood and the second standard vanguard is a phase 2 has a different grill the third is also a phase 2 and the barnfind one is also a phase 2 looks good rust wise
Great collection, as always. Background music, on that one, repetitive an irritating. Just my opinion , not a complaint. Keep up your good work.
Lord Herbert Austin opened up export markets around the world in the 1920's and 30's the Austin Seven was sold around the world under license and the Austin Seven became the base design for the first cars produced under license for Datsun, BMW, Lotus, McClaren (Bruce raced an Austin 7 Ulster) and Jaguar (emerging from the SS Swallow Sidecar company) just to name a few currently quite well known companies. And now we can't even export sausages to Northern Ireland. oh dear!
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I restored an Austin 1923 tourer that arrive to me as a flat bed pickup I also have a Bradford Delux Van 1953 I bought a 1975 Moris Marina Pick up brand new I live in New Zealand they tell me the 1923 Austin in now in the Austin Museum in the UK.
What is that cycle. Van...??
"Long front" Transits are diesels - very rarely V6 petrol.
Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !"
Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam."
Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!"
Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..."
Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!"
Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky."
Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction."
Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment?"
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The van,s were a60 no 55 s only cars were 55s
Just got 83WF/A C559385 trying to verify year 528B/339 barn find Alberta Canada now in Ontario any help some parts needed tail light , left window, front hood hood down center piece hope to keep 90 percent orginal paint green and black fenders two stuck valves may need gasket to do motor only 13883 miles on truck last time on road 1962 but was driven in fairs
Can I add pictures of it
There's no option to add photos to RUclips posts as far as I know. You'd find it useful going on Facebook as there's an active E83W group on there that will be able to help, including several members in Canada
Real vehicles ,unlike the recycled tin cans we drive toady
Very interesting pity about the music
Glad the photos were of interest anyway (I should have said that the volume can always be turned down)
@@oldclassiccarUK And then we can't hear what you have to say, I'm not making a big deal out of it I just found it repetitive and a little bit annoying , other than that great job!
I have series 1 land rover 80 and 109 pickup
Nice!
A notable abscence is VW vans & pick ups....
Hi thanks for watching - this video is for British vans and pickups, so no VWs
OK let me caveat what I am about to say that I may be repeating myself and if so sorry, age has it's price. My farther purchased a brand new A35 van (because it was cheaper than a car) and then put a seat in the rear for my brother and sister, being the youngest I got shoved right at the back between the rear made up seat and the rear door, my luxury was a piece of 4 inch foam however had we been rear ended I would have been strawberry jam :(
A lot of people bought vans then put rear seats (and sometimes rear side windows) in them, it avoided a fair chunk of tax at the time
@@oldclassiccarUK Windows, That's Luxury :)
THEY ARE FORDSON E83W VAN'S NOT FORD !
Some are Fordson, others are Thames, but all made by Ford. In fact E83W was only an internal model identification, they were never sold as E83Ws, only 10cwt vans (or pickups etc). Thanks for watching!
@@oldclassiccarUK I KNOW I OWN 2
I love morris minors... Hot rods..!! Sorry to the purists ..but that j type is beautiful why the rubber wings..??
Post Office J-Type vans had the rubber wings
Old beetle
Very sad to say that, regardless of what country you're from, it's very difficult to follow the sequence and take in the commentary because of the speed of the clips.
Being an avid collector of British vehicles, from real to models, I got so far but, very sadly, I had to stop.
Not being given enough time to absorb the whole content, took the good away from it.
I sincerely hope that this will be helpful / useful.
Many thanks.
John.
Fair enough, later compilations do have longer delays. Maybe try playing at half speed :-)
Hi there and thank you for your speedy reply.
Re your suggestion, I would be reluctant to do that because, while I'm no genius with computers / phones, I would imagine that, whilst running at half speed, this would only serve to interfere with the sound by distorting it, thereby ruining the description / s of these beautiful memories /treasures.
For what it is worth to you, my other main interests are British vintage motorcycles.
In particular, ones with Villiers engines.
( my late elder brother reared me on them ).
I have a 1955, three speed 150cc 8e Norman B2S with a Villiers engine.
And, a 1953 DOT 197CC Scrambler with a three speed 8e Villiers engine.
( apologies if I've bored you ).
Both machines are still in top condition, with the Norman taxed and insured.
Many thanks again for reading this.
Best regards.
John.
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