{"id":5099,"date":"2013-08-16T06:38:16","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T06:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=5099"},"modified":"2013-08-16T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T06:38:16","slug":"niki-laudas-rush-ferrari-team-van-is-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/5099","title":{"rendered":"Niki Lauda&#8217;s Rush Ferrari Team Van Is For Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5100\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5100\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5100\" alt=\"Niki Lauda Team Ferrari van from Rush\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rush-ferrari-lauda-van-1-sm.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"247\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rush-ferrari-lauda-van-1-sm.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rush-ferrari-lauda-van-1-sm-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1979 Renault Estafette Niki Lauda Ferrari Team van<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m always a sucker for a smart classic van. Although I wouldn&#8217;t necessarily want to own one as an everyday vehicle, they&#8217;ve got real character, especially when they have a smart paint job and an exciting provenance.<\/p>\n<p>This 1979 Renault Estafette van must be pick of the bunch &#8212; Niki Lauda&#8217;s Team Ferrari van as used in the upcoming film Rush. Although this isn&#8217;t an original Team Ferrari van, it is an original vehicle that has been faithfully adapted.<\/p>\n<p>With just a few weeks left before Ron Howard\u2019s epic film \u2018Rush\u2019 &#8212; which documents the epic rivalry between James Hunt and Niki Lauda &#8212; appears in cinemas nationwide, this van is being auctioned at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CarFest South<\/a> by Silverstone Auctions on Sunday 25th August, at Laverstoke Park Farm.<\/p>\n<p>This particular van Renault van started life as a fire truck on the French\/Swiss border, but has been faithfully modelled for its new role, with authentic factory paint and decals from one of Formula One&#8217;s most exciting eras, the late 1970s.<\/p>\n<p>Will Smith, classic car specialist, Silverstone Auctions, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWith \u2018Rush\u2019 set to thrill cinema goers, our CarFest South auction couldn\u2019t be better timed for one of its star characters, albeit one with four-wheels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a great little van, which even comes complete with fat Avon racing tyres on the period roof rack, and I\u2019m sure it would be the ultimate addition to any Ferrari collection or race team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_5101\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5101\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5101\" alt=\"Niki Lauda's Team Ferrari van in Rush\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rush-ferrari-lauda-van-2-sm.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rush-ferrari-lauda-van-2-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/rush-ferrari-lauda-van-2-sm-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5101\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1979 Renault Estafette Niki Lauda Ferrari Team van<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Estimated at between \u00a315,000 to \u00a320,000, the van is one of more than seventy lots being offered in the \u2018Pride &amp; Joy\u2019 auction.\u00a0Also being offered are a variety of charity lots where all the money raised will go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b008dk4b\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Children in Need<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information this Renault Estafette, or any of the lots on offer, then visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverstoneauctions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.silverstoneauctions.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 1979 Renault Estafette van is one of the stars of the upcoming F1 film Rush and is faithfully modelled on Niki Lauda&#8217;s Team Ferrari van from that period. It&#8217;s on sale at CarFest South on 25th August 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[1235,121,1758],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5099"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5103,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5099\/revisions\/5103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}