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old custom vans

Postby pat stevens » Mon Jan 17, 2011 11:02 pm

does anyone know whereabouts of some of the old custom vans from late 70s/80s in transit green mki ,arabesque (prob better known as rasberry sheik). quick silver mk1 lwb if they havnt fell to the dreaded tin worm

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Re: old custom vans

Postby bookwyse » Tue Jan 18, 2011 10:54 am

Both were scrapped in the mid 80's.

Shame really as they were good motors.
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Re: old custom vans

Postby pat stevens » Tue Jan 18, 2011 12:33 pm

i think someone has in transit in a lock up but the other two dissapeared i was offerd quick silver from a guy in manchester about 88/89 from what i can remember they were bolth steve stringer star vans creations (correct me if im wrong ) built for quicks ford dealers in manchester
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Re: old custom vans

Postby bookwyse » Tue Jan 18, 2011 5:27 pm

Yep both were Steve Stringer vans. Nice vans that were produced with money no object.

They did well on the show scene as well.

I can remember sitting in both of them at Steve Stringer's place when my old man went up there to rebuild the gearbox on Raspberry Sheik.
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Re: old custom vans

Postby Luke » Tue Jan 18, 2011 6:19 pm

i love these old vans 8) shame they arnt around anymore :(

if anyone has any old pics please scan them and post them up - always great to see 8)

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Re: old custom vans

Postby pat stevens » Wed Jan 19, 2011 12:29 am

heres a few more

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Re: old custom vans

Postby Dagenham Dustbin » Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:53 pm

pat stevens wrote:i think someone has in transit in a lock up but the other two dissapeared i was offerd quick silver from a guy in manchester about 88/89 from what i can remember they were bolth steve stringer star vans creations (correct me if im wrong ) built for quicks ford dealers in manchester


Quicksilver, as well as the pepsi wagon, were done by A&L autos in Romford Essex.
I worked there at the time.
We also did one for a competition for smith's crisps. a full custom Mk1 transit, and the comp was won by 2 old ladies.
The custom van sat ouside their house for years.
At the time, I was working on my own van, a LWB CF, with a pickup cab roof at the front, when Steve Stringer came by to buy some metalflake paint, as we were the european suppliers, and he saw my van, and went back to bedfordshire and did raspberry shiek to the same design of my bedford CF. :twisted:
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Re: old custom vans

Postby pat stevens » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:37 am

Dagenham Dustbin wrote:
pat stevens wrote:i think someone has in transit in a lock up but the other two dissapeared i was offerd quick silver from a guy in manchester about 88/89 from what i can remember they were bolth steve stringer star vans creations (correct me if im wrong ) built for quicks ford dealers in manchester


Quicksilver, as well as the pepsi wagon, were done by A&L autos in Romford Essex.
I worked there at the time.
We also did one for a competition for smith's crisps. a full custom Mk1 transit, and the comp was won by 2 old ladies.
The custom van sat ouside their house for years.
At the time, I was working on my own van, a LWB CF, with a pickup cab roof at the front, when Steve Stringer came by to buy some metalflake paint, as we were the european suppliers, and he saw my van, and went back to bedfordshire and did raspberry shiek to the same design of my bedford CF. :twisted:

cheers for the info i stand corrected exelent van quick silver was i always was led to believe steve built it but there you go .its usually the way with competitions people win them that never have a use for the prize .two old ladies in a custom van cruising chelsae bridge lol
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Re: old custom vans

Postby captain hook » Thu Mar 31, 2011 9:52 pm

I had the Pepsi Van in the early 80's....

I sold it to a Garage in Bethnal Green....
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Re: old custom vans

Postby AlanN » Thu Mar 31, 2011 11:48 pm

I was reading an article about Al Llewelyn & Dave Curtis building the Pepsi van for Ford and they mention about selling it to Pepsi in 1978. Very iconic image.

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Re: old custom vans

Postby Dagenham Dustbin » Fri Apr 01, 2011 7:26 pm

AlanN wrote:I was reading an article about Al Llewelyn & Dave Curtis building the Pepsi van for Ford and they mention about selling it to Pepsi in 1978. Very iconic image.

You never said Barry!!!!


Dave curtis was a furniture maker/trimmer by trade, and he did a new transit custom with corderoy interior, and called it "Cord Blimey"
He drove it everywhere on trade plates.
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Re: old custom vans

Postby AlanN » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:19 pm

Dagenham Dustbin wrote:
AlanN wrote:I was reading an article about Al Llewelyn & Dave Curtis building the Pepsi van for Ford and they mention about selling it to Pepsi in 1978. Very iconic image.

You never said Barry!!!!


Dave curtis was a furniture maker/trimmer by trade, and he did a new transit custom with corderoy interior, and called it "Cord Blimey"
He drove it everywhere on trade plates.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Love these old custom pics, have you seen this vid on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKGGu5KBno
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Re: old custom vans

Postby captain hook » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:26 pm

AlanN wrote:I was reading an article about Al Llewelyn & Dave Curtis building the Pepsi van for Ford and they mention about selling it to Pepsi in 1978. Very iconic image.

You never said Barry!!!!

Can't tell you everything I know 8)

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Re: old custom vans

Postby AlanN » Fri Apr 01, 2011 9:47 pm

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Re: old custom vans

Postby Dagenham Dustbin » Sat Apr 02, 2011 7:36 pm

AlanN wrote:
Dagenham Dustbin wrote:
AlanN wrote:I was reading an article about Al Llewelyn & Dave Curtis building the Pepsi van for Ford and they mention about selling it to Pepsi in 1978. Very iconic image.

You never said Barry!!!!


Dave curtis was a furniture maker/trimmer by trade, and he did a new transit custom with corderoy interior, and called it "Cord Blimey"
He drove it everywhere on trade plates.

:lol: :lol: :lol: Love these old custom pics, have you seen this vid on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKGGu5KBno


Ah yes, I was there, one of the first National street van meets.
The opening vehicle, London Scene, (Econoline) was Dick Vaughan, the owner of the Van Shop in east london.
I notice the commentator also makes the same mistake of putting Quicksilver in the steve stringer Starvan stable, even though you can clearly see Alan llewellyn (A&L Autos)the painter, driving it. :D
Geoff ridgeway was the resident muralist there at the time, who did Quicksilver murals as well as night gallery, the bedford.
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