Willy Eckerslyke wrote:

> A Mini van?
> 
> It struck me recently that I could do with a back up classic for those 
> times when I'm halfway through replacing my Rotoflex couplings and find 
> the lower vertical link bolt seized and end up spending three days over 
> the job when all I originally set out to do was adjust the handbrake. 
> You've been there too, no doubt.
> 
> A tax exempt Mini van would be the perfect cheap to run, practical and 
> fun second classic. Except they all seem to have vanished.
> So am I too late? Are the few remaining ones all sought after and 
> changing hands at hugely inflated prices, or does that start in a year 
> or two?

Commercials tend to have a hard life, and get scrapped when
their usability as business-tools ceases. When did you last
see a Mk.1 or Mk.2 Escort van?

Tax-exempt means pre-1973 - trying to find *any* commercials
of that sort of age is really hard, unless you look to oddballs
like motor-caravans or ice-cream vans.