Subject: | Re: When did you last see...
| Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:45:14 +0100
| From: | PJML <pjml@nerc.ac.uk.loopback>
| Newsgroups: | uk.rec.cars.classic
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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.
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