Ice cream vans

[TurboFan]

Just an observation, but here in west London all the ice cream vans seem to be all clapped out bangers with loads of soot coming out from the exhausts.

Even whilst growing up, all I seen to remember is all of them being old and battered.

Anyone else share the same experience?

Ice cream still tasted decent though.

[swisstoni]

My parents told me that the jangly tunes meant they had run out of ice cream.

[LordHaveMurci]

Most seem to be battered, the one around here is a really smart Merc based van.

[TurboFan]

swisstoni said:

My parents told me that the jangly tunes meant they had run out of ice cream.

Cruel lol

[Iva Barchetta]

The LEZ should weed out the filth belching bangers.

[750turbo]

TurboFan said:

swisstoni said:

My parents told me that the jangly tunes meant they had run out of ice cream.

Cruel lol

Bloody Scots!

[FourWheelDrift]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myptvBfapls

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Our ice cream man was found dead on the floor of his van, covered in strawberry sauce and chopped nuts. Police think he topped himself.

[Iva Barchetta]

Was there 100 of 1000s witnesses ?.....

[X5TUU]

There was a really odd argument with our old ice cream van in Sunderland

He pulled up, opened window and strayed serving the queue of kids and a black saloon pulls up behind him, power dressed woman (80s, HUUGE shoulder pads etc...) gets out of the passenger side walks to the front of the queue and serves him a cease and desist order in relation to copyright breach supposedly from Disney as his van was laden with Disney character decals.

Never saw the same ice cream van / seller again after that, was very strange and oddly ingrained in my mind but don't for a second believe she was from Disney and just happened to target a random small time ice cream vendor in suburban Sunderland! Odd!

[Roy Lime]

Iva Barchetta said:

The LEZ should weed out the filth belching bangers.

Is this still available on DVD?

Asking for a friend.

[Iva Barchetta]

Roy Lime said:

Iva Barchetta said:

The LEZ should weed out the filth belching bangers.

Is this still available on DVD?

Asking for a friend.

Dunno,my Betamax version is worn out.

[Zad]

My kind of ice cream van.

https://youtu.be/9HyQCdo70qw?t=40m41s

Two V8 engines. As you might expect, it ran out of fuel before the finishing line

[cjs racing.]

There is a reason they are old bangers, they get driven like banger racers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlPxbowJlXg

[Valgar]

It's probably because even he old ones are still worth a lot of money, to be honest it's not the vehicle that's worth the money, it's the machines. I once looked into getting an ice cream van myself but even for an old mid 90s transit with a proper soft machine on board was/is £10k+

Also the body conversions aren't cheap either initially.

[ambuletz]

in my area there used to be an ice cream van that had the 'if you go down to the woods today' song as its jingle. only ALL of the notes would go out of tune when he was driving around slowly. it was very creepy.

[colonel c]

99 times out of a hundred the paint work is a bit flaky and wafer thin.

[chris333]

colonel c said:

99 times out of a hundred the paint work is a bit flaky and wafer thin.

conegratulations on that one!

[kev b]

Lets not have this thread whipped up into a frenzy of puns.

[kev b]

Sorry, I couldn't resist chiming in with that.