Ice cream vans
Discussion
This past week we've had an old T reg transit ice cream van coming round playing a warped version of Greensleeves, it's pretty creepy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETNpzjQiAk
Imagine that, but warbled and distorted. Why do they think that will attract kids?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zETNpzjQiAk
Imagine that, but warbled and distorted. Why do they think that will attract kids?!
Oddly, the ice cream vans I've seen tend to be absolutely immaculate. I've seen an old Mercedes TN and a 'smiley' Transit (Mk3.5 or Mk4, I'm not sure which is the correct designation), as well as newer vans like Mercedes Sprinters and newer Transits. The only reason the condition of the vans sticks out to me is because, excluding ice cream vans, I've never seen a Sprinter without rust.
Valgar said:
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.
Maybe PH could have a Mr Whippy around to buy you one ?Also the body conversions aren't cheap either initially.
The old vans, eg mk3 Transits, Mercs 50?, are still worth up to fifteen grand as they are almost indestructible and cheap to repair at home if they do give trouble.
2.5Di non turbo engines, run all day on a gallon of diesel, an hour to swap a cambelt, only three wires to the engine and that's it, no EGR valves, DMF, Cats, ECUs, or electronics at all really, even the chimes are clockwork,
In contrast a newer van will cost sixty grand, be turbocharged, festooned with electronics, a dmf clutch that will take ten hours to swap and have a timing chain/tensioner that gives no warning of failure and trashes the engine when it goes.
2.5Di non turbo engines, run all day on a gallon of diesel, an hour to swap a cambelt, only three wires to the engine and that's it, no EGR valves, DMF, Cats, ECUs, or electronics at all really, even the chimes are clockwork,
In contrast a newer van will cost sixty grand, be turbocharged, festooned with electronics, a dmf clutch that will take ten hours to swap and have a timing chain/tensioner that gives no warning of failure and trashes the engine when it goes.
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True of course, but still plays havoc with my mechanical sympathy. They must get horribly sootted up.Triumph Man said:
Old bangers they may sometimes be, but they must have pretty good cooling systems if nothing else to sit idling for hours and hours at a time
they are in the main diesel powered , where the engine only gets hot when working.Sitting idling is not working. Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff