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Postby ovlov » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:29 pm

:shock: There's an add on ebay for a mk1 camper item no 4634899649in the add the seller says that there are only 200 mk1's left in this country :cry: Is he right anyone know :?: Surely there's a few more of em than that :roll:
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Postby Luke » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:39 pm

:shock: well i got 2 so i have 1% of the UK's mk1 transits :lol:
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Postby transitgeoff » Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:52 pm

ive got 1% as well then :lol: plus about another 3% in bits :lol: :lol:
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Postby FredTransit » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:06 pm

I am sure there must be more than 200!
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Postby transitgeoff » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:08 pm

hows your 0.5% doing then Fred, heard through the vine it was on the mend :?:
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Postby BigMac » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:28 pm

thire is more than that maybe peter lee might know or mad mark
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Postby Wolfie » Tue Apr 25, 2006 8:45 pm

i have 0.5% as well then
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Postby Neil » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:30 pm

the mk 1 transit club now gone had 375 members
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Postby transitgeoff » Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:36 pm

Was you involved in this club Neil :?:
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Postby Neil » Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:05 pm

just a member geoff but the letters listed members and the vehicles they owned theres plenty mk1s stashed out there
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Postby madmark » Wed Apr 26, 2006 4:03 am

well i cant see only 200 left :? maybe lwb,s (english) but not overall! there also is alot of campers and pick ups ! but the lwb is the rarest i think in fact i have only ever seen another 1 and that was a camper panel van type at billing last year!
there also is few german lwbs overhere not many but there is some around! i know of 4 includeing mine but i am shure there is more somewere, but all lhd apart from mine! :wink:
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Postby Neil » Wed Apr 26, 2006 5:19 pm

i know a 67 71 72 76 77 uk ones lwb and the ones you know thats about ten
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Postby ovlov » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:42 pm

:roll: I know of another six round here including mine most are on the road one's in a shed on a farm p reg one of the last mk1's a chassis cab was in good nick when parked up around 1990 but its covered in god knows what now, tried to buy it a few times but he wont sell :( pleads poverty every time I see him but he wont sell it :? prob be beyond repair now :( Why do people do this why leave them to rot away when someone would pay decent money and keep it in good nick :?: dont make any sense to me :x
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Postby Campertess » Sat May 06, 2006 8:01 pm

n i've got 1 and know of another 3
in my "new" van i get waved at not glared at ...Yeyyyyyyyyy :)
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Postby Luke » Sat May 06, 2006 8:30 pm

i think its safe to say there are over 200 mk1's left :!: :lol:

i wonder if we can found out how many there actually are on the road - im sure DLVA will have it on there computer :idea:
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