OT classic ford?

Just coming from a scrapyard, needed some vw parts.
Between the usual crap on the yard is a little ford
van, looks a bit like a vw kombi but the front says
ford thames.
Chassis looks very decent, paint good, all parts
there and fully original, and the price is a bargain.
Papers and all are there.
Too good to be true?
Can anyone point me in the right direction, parts
wise (easy to fix, owner says engine blown) or is it
a straight keep your hands off, pain in the ass?

Bart Bervoets
South Africa

bet the wheels look like this one of mine.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...44099308NEFnyp


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On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 21:01:29 GMT, Michael Cecil >
wrote:

>Looks like this?
>http://www.btinternet.com/~roncobb/photoE83Wvan.html
>
>Pretty neat looking.


My guess is that it is the later model:
http://www.witpg.org.uk/images/buses/BUS19.JPG

My grandfather used to run several of them for his business

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Howard Rose
1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe
1962 Austin Mini Deluxe
1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
http://www.howard81.co.uk/ (cars on website)

Definitly not it, the front is flat, no long nose.
Yours

Bart Bervoets
"Michael Cecil" > wrote in message
...
> On Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:49:23 -0800, "Bart Bervoets" >
> wrote:
>
> >Just coming from a scrapyard, needed some vw parts.
> >Between the usual crap on the yard is a little ford
> >van, looks a bit like a vw kombi but the front says
> >ford thames.
> >Chassis looks very decent, paint good, all parts
> >there and fully original, and the price is a bargain.
> >Papers and all are there.
> >Too good to be true?
> >Can anyone point me in the right direction, parts
> >wise (easy to fix, owner says engine blown) or is it
> >a straight keep your hands off, pain in the ass?
> >
> >Bart Bervoets
> >South Africa
>
> Looks like this?
> http://www.btinternet.com/~roncobb/photoE83Wvan.html
>
> Pretty neat looking.
>
> --
> Michael Cecil
> http://home.comcast.net/~macecil/

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 17:49:01 GMT, Michael Cecil >
wrote:

>Were they easy to maintain? In the US it's probably easy to get parts
>still but what about Bart's location?

I've no idea since I wasn't around in the '60's *grin*

I have a rather nice photo of one of the vans on it's side in a snow
bank - with the AA breakdown motorcycle next to it!

Parts? I've only ever seen a handful of those vans in all my time of
visiting classic car shows...

--
Howard Rose
1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe
1962 Austin Mini Deluxe
1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
http://www.howard81.co.uk/ (cars on website)

On Wed, 10 Nov 2004 21:28:39 +0000, Howard Rose
> wrote:

>Parts? I've only ever seen a handful of those vans in all my time of
>visiting classic car shows...


On second thoughts - body panels will be very hard to find, but
mechanics were certainly shared with the rest of the Ford lineup.

--
Howard Rose
1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe
1962 Austin Mini Deluxe
1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
http://www.howard81.co.uk/ (cars on website)

On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 14:45:06 -0800, "Bart Bervoets" >
wrote:

>
>> My guess is that it is the later model:
>> http://www.witpg.org.uk/images/buses/BUS19.JPG
>
>
>That's it!
>Buy or not?
>
>Bart Bervoets
>

buy it! if its cheap, and complete :-)

--
Howard Rose
1966 VW Beetle 1300 Deluxe
1962 Austin Mini Deluxe
1964 Austin Mini Super Deluxe
http://www.howard81.co.uk/ (cars on website)

> My guess is that it is the later model:
> http://www.witpg.org.uk/images/buses/BUS19.JPG


That's it!
Buy or not?

Bart Bervoets