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(5/5)
It remains the only car I’ve ever owned that was stopped by the police three times on one journey but until the MoT expired, it fulfilled its role perfectly. It’s replacement was a little more expensive (but not much), from a similar sort of dealer, and was fresh as a daisy after 165,000 miles as a Brixton minicab. But that must wait until next week. I hope to see you then.

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(4/5) Sadly, I can’t find any pictures of the solid Isopon arches I created for the wheels. ‘Special’ doesn’t do it justice. But it did begin to look better. It was actually a great learning car, regularly failing in creative but inexpensive ways and broadening my skill set as it did so. As the picture shows, it could reach Derbyshire from London – and get back again!

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(3/5) I removed the bumpers for that ‘street van’ look and to quell the nausea, exchanged the rusting doors for something more solid in a fetching green, and replaced the diff after dropping the clutch to demonstrate to a mate the hilarious lack of traction from a lovely set of Wolfrace alloys, 5½x12” on the front, 7x14” on the rear, clad in General Grabber let’s-call-it-rubber.

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(2/5) I’m not the sure interior had been fully valeted and the tyre pressures ranged from 45psi to 12, but it started (eventually) and the rag in the petrol filler was a lovely touch. Unaccountably it was the last one left of the batch the dealer had sold, but it ran flawlessly for fifteen miles before the fuel pipe clogged from the accumulated detritus, a problem that diminished over the year as the mileage climbed.

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(1/5) As the #BondBug disappeared on the back of a breakdown truck, once again I cast around for a desirable mode of transport. Reliable, smart, comfortable and cheap, I found it in a bombsite car dealer of the type you don’t see anymore. It even had special edition paintwork and a year’s MoT!

Yes, a 1970 Bedford HA van in the unique South East Gas Conversion Unit blue emulsion colour scheme. £125 and not worth every penny!

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