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Post by sidewaysjas on May 17, 2015 22:09:42 GMT 1
Next week 'For the love of cars' is the programme on the MK1 transit ! Sunday night, I'll be watching.
Jason
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Post by muttleymk2 on May 17, 2015 22:44:55 GMT 1
Me too
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Post by jonochap on May 18, 2015 0:01:20 GMT 1
I'm liking the idea of driving a tank too
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Post by conrod on May 26, 2015 22:45:59 GMT 1
Just watched it on youtube (we won't get in on TV for a while here) First off, great programme to celebrate and draw some attention to our beloved vans. I fast fwded through the "filler" about London black cabs and tanks etc. There was plenty of resto work going on in the background that would have been more interesting to me that all of that - the director/producers of this programme do this quite a bit, annoying..... Continuity was average, lots of footage of the van at the end pre auction, missing grille badges, next bit has them fitted, then without etc.
Question: - shouldn't the 1970 Mk1 have the early split indicators and different grille (8 slots instead of 9?)Okay I know that is trainspotter stuff, but I am closet trainspotter! And what is the deal, I thought these guys bought the cars, did the resto then sold them? But it was presented as if the proceeds of auction were going to the previous owner?
And rather disappointed at the selling price, the resto work alone surely would have cost that much, or more? I think the purchaser got a very good deal there. Old VW Kombi's are getting silly money here in NZ now, and although the Mk1 and Mk2 Transits are MUCH rarer over here than a Kombi, you can still pick them up for cheap. I don't get it. Anyone who has driven both vans knows which is the better one, and I much prefer the look of an old Transit to a Kombi. Perhaps I (we) are a bit different to everyone else?
Conrad
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Post by jonochap on May 27, 2015 7:45:47 GMT 1
I liked it. The format of the same on every episode, someone donates a vehicle and they do it up and sell it at auction and give them the money. Maybe the selling price will reflect in parts prices now and also help generate a few more lines of bits. I've never seen a mk1 driven as it was so that was cool.
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Post by conrod on May 27, 2015 8:42:54 GMT 1
I don't understand what you mean about the selling price being reflected in parts prices. Did you think the selling price was high or low? What do you expect parts prices to do now in light of this?
BTW, I did actually like the programme. But I think Car SOS does a much better job of showing the resto, which is what I am interested in. FTLOC seems to put in a whole bunch of unrelated filler which takes time away from the resto project.
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Post by FredTransit on May 27, 2015 11:05:58 GMT 1
We were contacted way back to supply a van for this, but not only did we not have a bullnose, I didn't want to sell. They also wanted to dry hire (hire without driver) and do a road trip, for nothing. Er no thanks. What did it sell for?
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Post by conrod on May 27, 2015 12:27:10 GMT 1
£9500 at auction. What was the deal, were they offering to buy it off you? or offering to restore then sell, then pay you? ?
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Post by dodgerover on May 27, 2015 12:27:15 GMT 1
£9k ish from whats been said on facebook
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Post by conrod on May 27, 2015 12:38:36 GMT 1
Interestingly, I just found this page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_CarsIf you scroll down it details the Transit project. Said it sold for £11 210 at auction, with TV selling price of £9500. Not sure what that is all about? And that the van was given to the team for £0, and any money made at auction went to the owner. So effectively the owner got somewhere between £9500 and £11 210 for his old bucket of rust then? Not bad!
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Post by FredTransit on May 27, 2015 16:02:01 GMT 1
£9500 at auction. What was the deal, were they offering to buy it off you? or offering to restore then sell, then pay you? ? Yep they were offering to buy then sell through the programme. Then they wanted a van to match the one they found (bullnose) and do a road trip in it... couldn't help either way!
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Post by 81cortina on May 27, 2015 17:06:29 GMT 1
I did enjoy the program and will watch it again. I also fast forwarded through the boring taxi and tank part , was totally irrelevant in my opinion and would have much prefered more details on the rebuild. In one shot it was a shot blasted shell next time it appeared they were putting on the finishing touches. and filled the gap in between with tank and taxi.............
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Post by harry2012 on May 27, 2015 20:30:38 GMT 1
The van used has been up for sale for ages by that guy. He was after £5750 for it in its previous state! www.classiccarsforsale.co.uk/detail/motors/classic-vans-and-commercial/ford/transit/111217Having been in the VW scene for years I think it's the whole hippy bus, dream of freedom and the whole massive VW scene that drives prices up, plus classic vdubs are seen as classless, but fords just aren't, and even nowadays VW is seen as a premium brand whereas ford isn't. The VW scene is also a worldwide phenomenon but the Transit was Europe only so hasn't got the US pushing up prices either. Also Fords just don't quite have that following that you get with Vdubs, there's shows most weekends of the year based around vdubs. Weirdly though people get hung up on VW but forget it's very shady origins. Whereas Ford brought motoring to the masses, and people forget how revolutionary the Transit was. I still can't believe how car like my mk2 is to drive. 1978 was still the Bay Window those things are effing awful to drive. Although I do think mk1 & mk2 Transits will go up in value in the next few years, they are starting to creep now, especially as they are so rare.
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Post by conrod on May 27, 2015 21:43:23 GMT 1
Holy crap, £5750! I remember seeing it advertised on Ebay, and thought it looked like a pile of poo.....
Interesting comments regarding the VW's, I think you have probably nailed it there.
If the values of Mk1 & Mk2 Transits do go up as you suggest,(and I sincerely hope they do) then that would see many more saved from the scrapper and restored, as it becomes more economically viable to do so.
What does everyone think that resto would have cost? Bear in mind, it is a TV production company, who would have been paying full shop rates to get the job done quickly.I am guessing the TV presenter just did that small rust repair on the floor for posterity,(not that it was a bad repair or anything) and the rest was left to the companies who actually did the work.
I can't speak for the UK, but in NZ I would say it would have been $30-$50K (£15-£25K) to restore without too much problem.
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Post by sidewaysjas on May 27, 2015 22:30:52 GMT 1
Overall I liked the programme and anything that gives airtime to the Transit is a good thing, but I would have prefered to have seen more of the restoration work and not taxi's and tanks. It took me 12mths to weld up my Transit and it was 10times better condition than the teabag they got back from the blasters. Also they didn't talk about the inevitable brake steering and engine rebuilds that must have been done.
Looked a lovely van when they had finished though and worth every penny of £9500.
Jas
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