Tranorak's Mk2 Di

[tranorak]

so heres the front, good bonnet eh! That awful looking bit on the sill is where I yanked off sinister filler expecting a hole but its only a dent underneath all the rust is surfacey except there may be a little hole in the tip of the wing...

and heres the other side, mmmmmmmmm see theres rusty bits at the top edge of the tailgate, probably thats the only bit you cant reach to squirt waxoil into.

and heres the 3 slider heater control which Fred reckons makes it an original diesel from new. & its a Lucas Cav pump ok.

and heres the CO-OP tourquoisey blue colour showing everywhere the white respray is peeling off. Dunno what graphics a CO-OP funeral wagon ought to have Did any of you forum users have their Granny taken away for a CO-OP funeral back in the 1980's and if so did you have the presence of mind to nip indoors for a camera???

[MrMPuk]

Would you like to put the pictures of the other vans too in the gallery!!!

[FredTransit]

She looks good! And I think that the engine could be original!

[chrisvmax]

That looks like a Di to me. Looks the same as mine in my Mk2 ambulance.
Probably lucky for you, as I used to have a Mk2 with a york engine and if the temperature was ever at freezing or below it would never start.
When it would start it was embarassingly smokey!
Di is much better,

Regards,
Chris

[Luke]

Looks tidy!! not much work needed to get that back showroom eh?

How many mk1s and 2s have you got

[mk2panelvan]

Very very nice, so back to CoOp livery?

[tranorak]

Well maybe go for the CO-OP livery if I can find out what it was. Just spent all my pocket money on getting the Mk1 resprayed so its not happening soon anyway! All contributions greatly appreciated by the way!! Seems like it left the factory white, then was probably just that tourquoisey blue colour allover, cant see any logos on the side, must've been DA'd off I quess when it went back to white again. What I like about this van is all the panels are the originals and no serious welding needed, maybe a bit of titivating on the back arch where accident damage has let the rot in but it won't need new arches Phew. Theres a patch needed on the floor near the passenger's foot and thats it I reckon, should take all of half an hour to sort out. Luke asks

How many mk1s and 2s have you got

only this one, the blue one and the yellow one, honest oh and a Mk1 diesel panel van but thats a rusty pig so doesn't count does it?

[madmark]

do i spot a ex AA van there?????

[tranorak]

Nah, not AA the yellow one is ex-Hornchurch local authority van, somebody suggested 'meals on wheels' not very glamourous is it? Ziebart rust proofing studs allover it though

[FredTransit]

All contributions greatly appreciated by the way!!

If you send me some clear pics, I will put them on my site and maybe get you some film work! One thing though, art directors don't like white as it's difficult to light and appears as a blob if used in the background. Think about going back to the tourquise, but keep it plain.

[tranorak]

Hey Fred, that would be good. I'm not keen on the white either, how about grey or grungy green? By the way, for the 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' filming at Pinewood last year, they prepared about 140 vehicles (but you only see maybe half a dozen for a split second in the final edit). They were all sprayed up in semi Matt paint because shiny comes out dazzly shiny on screen. Health and safety meant only water-based paint could be sprayed, and that meant Household Emulsion with a dash of glossing agent. So heres a piccy of a few Willi Wonka wagons ~ a UAZ van, Austin Somerset, Moskvitch, Volga...oh and whats that at the back?.. a Transit Mk2 dolled up as a TV newsvan, nice?

[FredTransit]

That last pic is good! wonder where they got the parcel van from? Wasn't us cos we only got going earlier this year. It hasn't surfaced since, these things usually get trotted out again and again. Got to be honest the parcel van is my least favourite van, Mk1,2 or anything else.

[tranorak]

Dunno where it went. They were trying to sell it off after filming, as I recall it was diesel, meant to be a very good van and asking about £100. Most of the stuff got shifted through ebay but I dont think this one did. Very little was hired in for that film, they preferred to buy, giving them total freedom to do as they please e.g. a respray in Household Emulsion !! There were about 20 Ladas and 20 Volvos that all got weighed in, ruthless but you just gotta clear the tarmac, its rented.

[FredTransit]

Any idea who actually supplied the vehicles? I never saw the film so didn't get to check the credits and wierdly nobody has ever mentioned the film to me, usually there is some talk about various films (biggest rumour mill is Batman Begins at the mo) whilst you are hanging about. Parcel vans were rare enough in thier day, so I am sure there are hardly any left now. That said, I know where there is a Mk2 phase2 not far from me, and a late reg e reg at that!

[tranorak]

That'll be ACTION VEHICLES for the 'Charlie' film. £200,000 budget for vehicles and I think they managed to spend it all
As for those 'parcel van' things as you call them, yes ugly as sin but I suppose someone loves them, people get the strangest enthusiasms Over ten years ago well before I started to get interested in the early transits, one of my dodgy mates had a ridiculous shabby Mk1 with that sort of boxy body and massive windscreen and must've been shortwheelbase as it looked taller than it was long. It was still in full 'MOTHERS PRIDE' livery but scruffy as hell. He dawbed it over with red oxide when he finally came to sell it and it looked even worse. Of course if someone tried to sell it to me now I'd find it hard to resist