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Postby tranorak » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:18 am

malta transit wrote:Yep, pictures please. And if posibile a picture of the real van of the avtar in fjord blue. :D :D :D :D. Mr Tranorak.

Hey don't go buying tins of FJORD BLUE paint !! its very similar but a few shades darker than FIORD BLUE. :shock:

Anyway ~ heres my Jan '66 van & Yes it is Rusty :roll: but it's the genuine article, vents both sides and different ribbing in rear floor etc :lol:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby Luke » Sat Dec 29, 2007 12:11 pm

love the phone number on the door :lol:
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Postby urbtree » Sat Dec 29, 2007 1:18 pm

Luke wrote:from the DVLA website :?


Cylinder Capacity (cc) 99999CC



thats some engine :P
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby transitgeoff » Sat Dec 29, 2007 9:22 pm

lovely to look at the old girl but i am pretty sure shes finished mate :( has it even got a roof :?:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby madmark » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:24 pm

yep she is bad imo its hadit :( :(
so as far as we know there is only 4 1965 transits left :?: pete has a 1965 and a erly 1966 witch i think will turn out to be a late 1965 and fords gec and your one!
anymore :?: :?:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby malta transit » Sat Dec 29, 2007 10:34 pm

Great for rescuing it .But what are your plans for this van.
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby captain hook » Sun Dec 30, 2007 12:09 am

I'm sure the GEC one is 1967, although GEC never had Transits :shock:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby tranorak » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:10 am

malta transit wrote:Great for rescuing it .But what are your plans for this van.

Cheers Mr. Malta Transit. Love the photos you have posted :D I quess there are loads of really early vans in Malta?? I fancy a holiday and drive one back to UK... Is that possible?? :?
Meanwhile my rusty '66 is sat there waiting for work to begin :lol: Sometimes I look at it and think 'Nah.. it's finished' :( but then I look harder and its all repairable in fact. :D For years I have been gathering the panels to fix it, like a rear valance of the earliest type with just one locking bar hole (left door just has a little cupboard type latch).
At least you can see all the rust, its never been welded or fillered. & the roof :shock: thats the worst bit, dented down by Agricultural machinery stored on it :( Need a whole new one really :? Planking in the back has protected the floor well. I am a decent welder so its all possible, just will I ever find the time :(
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby Luke » Sun Dec 30, 2007 1:15 am

:shock: good luck to you in restoring it 8) keep us updated - i'd love to see you go for it :D

and when it's done you've got to keep to retro signwriting 8) 8)
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby malta transit » Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:24 am

Hi Tranorack, sure you can buy one and take it back home,but don't forget these are working vans not pampered ones,they v got to earn there living. Every Mk1 Transit was imported second hand,after about 5 years service in the UK,and i have a big feeling that early ones ended hear. Most of them had diesel convertions and even cosmetic changes,like side lights to big all orange indicaters. Only the log book can say the year of manufacture. My friend Karmnu who you can see his tread called Karmn's Transits or Yard , has this red one below which once was of an earlyer petrol type, even the indicators have been changed.

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In the backround of your photo there s a bit of a fjorid blue transit, presumably yours,can we see a good look of it as i m dieing of curiosity to see that one. Or lead me to a tread which its shown that i v missed.
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby madmark » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:01 am

the gec van is a 1965 on a c reg! :wink:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby captain hook » Mon Dec 31, 2007 3:54 am

So it is Mark.........

Been a few years since I saw it.

Makes no odds though..........

GEC Elliott Traffic Automation didn't exist until 1971..

The livery was changed to Yellow/Black livery in 1973

GEC had a deal going with a Bedford dealership called

Haines and Strange in those days.......

When it was time to get a new van,you drove to the

GEC site in Wembley and, collected your new Bedford CF.

The Bedfords I had were......

WAD 462J.....CDF 870K These were Blue/Black with a White Roof.

The 'L' and 'M' reg vans were Yellow/Black
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby Neil » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:32 pm

madmark wrote:yep she is bad imo its hadit :( :(
so as far as we know there is only 4 1965 transits left :?: pete has a 1965 and a erly 1966 witch i think will turn out to be a late 1965 and fords gec and your one!
anymore :?: :?:
theres one in a lockup about 7 mile from me ,,semi restored with nos ford panals including complete new sides :shock: :shock:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby transitgeoff » Tue Jan 01, 2008 5:35 pm

how much :?:
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Re: Oldest Transit

Postby madmark » Tue Jan 01, 2008 6:52 pm

captain hook wrote:So it is Mark.........

Been a few years since I saw it.

Makes no odds though..........

GEC Elliott Traffic Automation didn't exist until 1971..

The livery was changed to Yellow/Black livery in 1973

GEC had a deal going with a Bedford dealership called

Haines and Strange in those days.......

When it was time to get a new van,you drove to the

GEC site in Wembley and, collected your new Bedford CF.

The Bedfords I had were......

WAD 462J.....CDF 870K These were Blue/Black with a White Roof.

The 'L' and 'M' reg vans were Yellow/Black


i am shure somebody wrote into classic van and pick up saying the gec van was not a original gec van! i wonder why they done it in the gec colours :?
she was a nice van though but is getting tatty :? i think this is because it gets put all over the place ! :roll:
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