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van identity

Post by Guest Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:05 am

Hi guys, first up please bear with a poor little aussie bloke and his first post here. I have been searching the net high and low for any information on this van in the pics, I own a mobile cafe here in Perth, Western Australia and have decided to combine my love of coffee and car building but i can't find out what this van is. Can anyone here help me out or point me somewhere else to look, cheers guys, Ausheli

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Post by savage Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:11 am

Ausheli, Frist off Welcome. Great to hear from Down Under. At frist I thought it was a VW(front door), but after seeing the 2nd pic, noway. , Mabe its a Engish van of some kind??? You have any Idea where the pics were taken?? Cool Van. Tom

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Post by G-Man Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:41 am

This van may be harder to identify, Looks custom from the back end and that grill looks custom. Then again it could be something we have never seen. I personnally like vans from other countries and look for them all the time, but have never seen one like this. Are you buying it??? Can you get us a picture of the motor??? It may give clues. EX: Thames vans are fords and there maybe something underthere that says Ford.

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Post by jkr Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:43 pm

looks like it might have been a hearse before its present setup. they used to display caskets in vehicles like that in europe for some reason

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Post by G-Man Sun Aug 31, 2008 8:12 pm

Here a link to a toy Thames milk truck which looks a little like what you have pictured, but I'm not ruling out jkr idea of a hearse which I think it looks more like. Maybe it's a factory custom hearse of some van out there???

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Post by Guest Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:19 pm

thansk guys, yeah i was think VW too but cant find any other referance,all i know is that the original photos are from italy, mmm chop shop custom it might have to be. I havent bought 1 yet but still looking, may have to just look for something Euro with some cool lines to it, cheers Ausheli

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Post by Guest Sun Aug 31, 2008 10:24 pm

on further google search it's satrting to look like a thames, just with the shape of the front windows, and as mentioned before a custom set up on the back, cheers Ausheli

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Post by Kakster Mon Sep 01, 2008 10:35 am

Here is a link to a toy version of a Thames van that looks a bit like the one in question.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Corgi-Ford-Thames-Airborne-Caravan-Diecast-Toy-Car-Van_W0QQitemZ130250493789QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20080829?IMSfp=TL0808291768r26702

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Post by G-Man Mon Sep 01, 2008 11:12 am

Heres the link I forgot to add.
http://www.matchboxdave.com/regularwheels/6121008.jpg

This model has the open panels

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Post by G-Man Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:55 am

Pretty sure I figured out what it is..... I think it a italian made Alfa Romeo. Here a link to a picture. Notice the body line on the door.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm1.static.flickr.com/181/476786242_42f8111661.jpg%3Fv%3D0&imgrefurl=http://flickr.com/photos/80688018%40N00/476786242/&h=375&w=500&sz=133&hl=en&start=60&usg=__HmlUrWWMMmQUqU2Ka3J_t8XtgSs=&tbnid=geQxFjl82XBR7M:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&prev=/images%3Fq%3Ditalian%2Bvans%26start%3D40%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

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Post by G-Man Tue Sep 02, 2008 12:06 pm

Found another site and I'm positive it's a Alfa Romeo. From your picture that van is was a ambulance or a hearse first. At this site it has a ton of infor on them. This should help you find one, but from what I see at the site there production of them is smaller than most vans.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.romeoregister.com/phdi/p1.nsf/imgpages/0453_RomRegbonfant-OLApromo.jpg/%24file/RomRegbonfant-OLApromo.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.romeoregister.com/phdi/p1.nsf/supppages/0453%3Fopendocument%26part%3D3&h=284&w=440&sz=32&hl=en&start=32&usg=__6Fph9JarygpYMUe0sQcQIRlf-GU=&tbnid=K9gS89mJmQ14rM:&tbnh=82&tbnw=127&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalfa%2Bromeo%2Bvans%26start%3D20%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN

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Post by jkr Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:52 pm

very interesting site. thought it looked like a hearse and the one in the link sure looks like it. being an a -100 pickup owner the romeo 3 pickup version would be my choice possibly with a hemi and a dana rear after a little tub job of course.

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Post by Guest Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:24 pm

yup it's alfa
i've only seen one alfa VAN before , pretty neat, custom design back end
is my guess as well too though
jeep made a van too , big time rare, looked like a hummer with no windows

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Post by G-Man Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:38 pm

As much as we pride ourself's on our early's we have to give credit to Europe where they really began.

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Post by Guest Tue Sep 02, 2008 11:29 pm

yep thats definatly it then, i could never make out what the logo on the wheels from the pics i had was but have blown up some hi-res pics and compared and there we have. Now i just have to find 1, Shocked

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, thanks G-man you guys rock

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