1987 E reg Transit

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rich.
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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#2 Post by rich. » Thu May 25, 2017 12:09 pm

was it yours?

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#3 Post by steviea » Fri May 26, 2017 5:56 am

No just seen it on Facebook

I heard it was sold for charity

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#4 Post by rich. » Fri May 26, 2017 6:50 am

that is a nice van, i was hoping you bought it & we could have more pics :drool: :drool:
edit, found this!
https://www.spyequipmentuk.co.uk/latest ... or-auction

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#5 Post by GHT » Sat May 27, 2017 8:02 pm

rich. wrote:
Fri May 26, 2017 6:50 am
that is a nice van, i was hoping you bought it & we could have more pics.
Rich, it's just a van. Nothing to get excited about, good grief, did you get that therapy that I recommended?

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#6 Post by JPB » Sat May 27, 2017 8:54 pm

There was only the one place left in the therapy group, GHT, and I nabbed it :lol: . It was very useful in spite of its only offering one piece of advice: Avoid arsebook like a dog avoids yoghurt and life will be just fine. It's even easier to avoid the book of face when links need a victim's sign in details before the material is visible so the Transit could be the best one left on the planet and I'd still not get the joke, much as I appreciate a Transit. :|
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true.. :oops:

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#7 Post by rich. » Sun May 28, 2017 7:03 am

GHT wrote:
Sat May 27, 2017 8:02 pm
rich. wrote:
Fri May 26, 2017 6:50 am
that is a nice van, i was hoping you bought it & we could have more pics.
Rich, it's just a van. Nothing to get excited about, good grief, did you get that therapy that I recommended?

ght have you overdosed on extra grumpy pills again??
its not just any van! its a transit :lol: i like anything different.. i get bored at shows with only expensive tat that your not allowed to look at let alone touch or god forbid ask the owner a sensible question...

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#8 Post by GHT » Sun May 28, 2017 1:52 pm

rich. wrote:
Sun May 28, 2017 7:03 am
]ght have you overdosed on extra grumpy pills again??
its not just any van! its a transit :lol: i like anything different.. i get bored at shows with only expensive tat that your not allowed to look at let alone touch or god forbid ask the owner a sensible question...
Go on then, go into raptures over one of Henry's workhorses. Sorry if I come across as grumpy, but you see, I've spent my working in logistics, to me a van is a van is a van. Some of the contracts that I have been in charge of range from M&S Finance division, that was pre-internet, meaning much paperwork and hundreds of vans. Argos, Waitrose, Scottish & Newcastle Breweries. I didn't actually work for those companies, I worked for the Hays group who ran those company's operations. So trucks, vans, forklifts, warehouses and lots of gophers swearing has been my lot.
It's not just vans I find dull, can't get my head round those truck drivers who pimp their motors. I once actually saw a truck driver's funeral where the deceased's coffin was lashed to a trailer and taken to the crematorium. As for those TV shows like Eddie Stobart & Super Truckers, puh-lease, spare me.

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#9 Post by rich. » Mon May 29, 2017 6:13 pm

i have spent my life in vans, dad was a builder & since i was old enough to carry bricks ive worked in the trade, vans are a big part of my life... :D :D most vans don't get the trailer queen treatment & don't last mine are always overloaded & abused...so i think its nice that someone has made the effort to restore one, especially for charity.. i owned 96 190 lwb the same colour that was rotten, falling to bits but it still kept going.. in the end the brakes went & she got sold :cry: :cry: :cry: i miss my old van, only time she let me down was when the starter motor fell apart, just as i was getting on the ferry.. getting off i got a bump start & she kept going & got me home
calm down dear, i am sure there are things that you find interesting that most normal people would find dull.. ;) ;)

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Re: 1987 E reg Transit

#10 Post by GHT » Tue May 30, 2017 6:24 am

rich. wrote:
Mon May 29, 2017 6:13 pm
calm down dear, i am sure there are things that you find interesting that most normal people would find dull.. ;) ;)
Well, I like old biplanes, steam trains and cars with side opening bonnets, running boards and exposed headlamps. Being dressed smart gets attention, whilst you lot call my Aloha shirt collection dodgy, others can be down right rude. A youngish chap, with his jeans worn so low they nearly exposed his crotch, a garish pair of orange dayglow trainers, a T-shirt bearing an unprintable profanity and a baseball cap with the peak hanging over one ear, told me that I looked like a prat. It was a vintage suit that I was wearing, some months previous my sister had unearthed some family photos, they were very precious as mother died young, she was just 33. In the photo was little three year old me with my parents. Dad's suit was the one he had been issued with when he was demobbed after serving in the armed forces during WW2. I took the photo to a specialist tailor and had a replica made. It has wide lapels and trouser turn ups, but other than that it's quite a conservative sombre sort of suit. I do wear it with braces, perhaps that's what made me look a prat.

Back on the subject of vans, I wouldn't mind a van like Jones the butcher in Dad's Army.

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