{"id":7428,"date":"2015-05-06T15:12:13","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:12:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2015-05-06T15:12:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T15:12:13","slug":"wayback-wednesday-vintage-ford-transits-plus-one-of-vauxhalls-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7428","title":{"rendered":"Wayback Wednesday: Vintage Ford Transits Plus One Of Vauxhall&#8217;s Finest&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s a quiet day today &#8212; perhaps because with election day tomorrow, anyone wanting press coverage might be holding off until there are fewer distractions around.<\/p>\n<p>However, the lull in serious news has provieded me with a great opportunity to publish some photos of classic commercial vehicles &#8212; last weekend saw the\u00a0Simply Ford\u00a0event take place at Beaulieu, bringing together\u00a0a stunning range of vintage Fords, including a number of vans:<\/p>\n<p>First up is Tasha Rose&#8217;s impressive 1969 Transit Campervan, complete with unique Jimi Hendrix-inspired\u00a0artwork. Are you experienced?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-hendrix-transit-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Tash Rose Hendrix Ford Transit Campervan\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-hendrix-transit-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-hendrix-transit-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-hendrix-transit-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next up is one of the legends of the Transit world &#8212; and always a major crowd pleaser, the V8-powered Transit Supervan 3:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7429\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7429\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7429\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-transit-supervan3-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Ford Transit Supervan 3 at Simply Ford '15\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-transit-supervan3-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-transit-supervan3-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/simplyford15-transit-supervan3-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The V8-powered Ford Transit Supervan 3 at Simply Ford 2015. That bloke at the back &#8212; he&#8217;s looking at the engine, which is mounted in the load bay in this fire-breathing one-off&#8230;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0Transit Supervan 3 only seems to have been on static display at Beaulieu last weekend &#8212; it was fired up several times, but not driven.\u00a0However, this beast does go &#8212; here&#8217;s a video clip of the Transit Supervan 3 in action at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2013, in the hands of former BTCC driver Anthony Reid:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rJyMqByOfIM\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>What about Vauxall?<\/h3>\n<p>By sheer coincidence, today also marks the day when General Motors &#8212; the owner of Vauxhall &#8212; becomes the first car manufacturer in the world to produce 500 million vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>A significant number of these have been British-built Vauxhalls, such as the new Vivaro: the Luton-based firm has been owned by GM for 90 years, but the UK is GM&#8217;s fourth-largest market, and many Vauxhall\u00a0models are designed and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/7425\">built in the UK<\/a>, for the UK and European markets.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Vauxhall&#8217;s are civilised and sensible models, suitable for modern life &#8212; but it wasn&#8217;t always thus.\u00a0Here are a couple of wartime\u00a0specials\u00a0which were built at the firm&#8217;s Luton plant,\u00a0where\u00a0today, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/archives\/6249\">the Vivaro<\/a> is built:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7431\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7431\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7431\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-d-type-staff-car-sm.jpg\" alt=\"Vauxhall D-Type WW1 Staff Car\" width=\"550\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-d-type-staff-car-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-d-type-staff-car-sm-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-d-type-staff-car-sm-50x33.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7431\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vauxhall D-Type Staff Car was made for the British Army during WW1.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Vauxhall also made an important contribution\u00a0during\u00a0WWII, when it built the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Churchill_tank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Churchill tank<\/a> at the Kimpton Road plant:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7432\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7432\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7432\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-churchill-tank-sm.jpg\" alt=\"The Vauxhall-built Churchill tank\" width=\"550\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-churchill-tank-sm.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-churchill-tank-sm-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/vauxhall-churchill-tank-sm-50x36.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7432\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Vauxhall-built Churchill tank was one of the heaviest tanks used in WWII<\/p><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s all for today &#8212; normal service will be resumed\u00a0once the dust has settled after\u00a0tomorrow&#8217;s General Election.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/\">vanrental.co.uk<\/a> is neutral when it comes to\u00a0politics, but I would encourage everyone to vote &#8212; as my French teacher used to say at school, &#8220;<em>use it or lose it&#8221;&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at some of the finest vintage Ford Transit and Vauxhall models ever made &#8230;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1231],"tags":[1757,1912,548],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428"}],"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=7428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7434,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7428\/revisions\/7434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanrental.co.uk\/vanblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}