Best of British tow cars

[bazza]

used to take our elsinores to races in Rex Averis A/40 ute,side ways down the Lynfield hill to jim Boyd motors if wet and when you got a puncture fill tyre with farmers hay to it got to hot,ah the good ol days.

[mx250]

I had one of these in the early 70's with a Zepher six up front and 15inch fats all round - nose heavy and tail happy . Use to go everywhere sideways - even when you didn't intend to - honest officer .

I did a couple of dramatic entrances to grass pit areas early in the morning on damp grass and a heavy right foot .

[firko]

I had one of these in the early 70's with a Zepher six up front and 15inch fats all round

My mate had an old Thames exactly the same colour as the one shown with a grey Holden motor, Zephyr diff and Cortina disc brakes. It handled like the Manly Ferry with a broken rudder but held two open class/two fifty bikes or three 125's plus all the gear and grog. I had a V4 Transit at the time and fondly recall the trips to the races in those old vans, loaded to the hilt with bikes and mates as some of the best road trips of my life. 

[Marc.com]

I had a V4 Transit at the time and fondly recall the trips to the races in those old vans, loaded to the hilt with bikes and mates as some of the best road trips of my life. 

Not to mention that they provided the accomodation once you actually got there, nothing like the comfort of a $10 sleeping bag rolling around amounst the spilled premix, beer cans and chain lube.

Still with BMC things could always get worse. British Leylands kiss of death.

[TM BILL]

In a past life i used to deal in camper vans in the UK  mostly selling to Antipodean travellers 
The most popular van was by far the classic VW Kombi with the German Westfalia conversion , however i traded one of these



And although the van itself was shit by Christ the camper Conversion was first class  Even today if i could find one i would grab it and repower it , make an awsome VMX hauler 

[tony27]

How could you possibly not consider this British classic to transport your British classic 

1 of our local trials guys had 1 of these fitted with a falcon motor & electric overdrive connected to the rear of the gearbox which he only sold in the last couple of years to a guy who uses it to tow his escort rally car.
Have some very good memories of travelling around the country in it including having a petrol station attendant starting to look for the puddle underneath as the pump clicked past 80 litres, had a custom built 100 litre tank fitted from when there was no petrol stations open in the weekends
We quite often had 4 bike& riders in there with all our gear, he reckoned it was much easier in the 70s when the bikes had the pegs etc in different positions to each others

[oldfart]

Me good ole Vanguard six hauled Bikes around Un Zud during the mid to late 70's.
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Rex Averies ..... had a mate called Jimmy Biddle that had a Thames freighter Van ( piece of shit was always breaking ) that he  used for transport His Tm 250 (1974 )  around.  

[dfisher]

Sorry if it seems I am brand biased.



One of the Metro Police ISDT machines in transportation.



From a Welsh Trials event.

[mx250]

Me good ole Vanguard six hauled Bikes around Un Zud during the mid to late 70's.
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Wow!!! That's pretty cool and unique - I betcha wish you still had it . It would be cool to arrive at a VMX meet with one today.

[mx250]

I would be tempted, but only if I could keep the patina ....



http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Ratrod-Rat-rod-Hotrod-Hot-rod-Ford-/160678043100?pt=AU_Cars&hash=item2569285ddc

"......my intention was to channel the body down over a mitsubitshi L300 van chassis and floor pan. I have done this in the past, it is an easy conversion."

But $3000

[oldfart]

Mx... Yep I agree they looked pretty cool and had nice smooth lines - but no I don't miss it one bit    it was extremely reliable and faithful and we traveled more than  a few klm together ( behind it is a CF Bedford ) ....ah the memories  but like most things we have to move on to get ahead in life so I sold it and bought a LC Torana. 

[EML]

Firko-"I had a V4 Transit" and always knew where the tow-rope was. We were talking about them the other day-my mechanics had never heard of one but thought the concept was cool, as no doubt the ford guys did at the time also, but it never worked-for long.
My first tower was a Holden 1 tonner-fitted 11 bikes of various sizes and had 8 (people)in the front during one rain storm!!

[firko]

The little V4 Transit engine was basically a V6 Capri engine with two cylinders cut off. As slow as they were, they were pretty reliable little bus.

[crankpin]

I had a ford V4 engine in one of my series Landrovers. Never let me down but was just as thirsty as the 2.3 mill I pulled out of it. So V6 essex went in instead, at least it had some grunt...

[mx250]

I had a ford V4 engine in one of my series Landrovers. Never let me down but was just as thirsty as the 2.3 mill I pulled out of it. So V6 essex went in instead, at least it had some grunt...

We use to put the 179 Holden six in - top speed was slower because they didn't rev as fast but their point to point speed was faster because nothing slowed them down (more grunt ).