insurance. help!

[ellis12345]

im looking at buying an escort van as a cheap run around for work, as well as my current car, i currently have a vauxhall nova which has only done 30,000 miles and i dont want to be putting 200+ miles on it every week. a renewel offer on my nova has come through from the AA at £195 which is suprisingly cheap as i've just turned 21(i paid £750 for this year with elephant)
so i thought i'd give the AA a call and get a quote on an escort van, gave them the reg of the first one that came up on ebay and they wanted £2100 fully comp.......
seems a bit steep considering the offer on my nova. i've done a few searches on comparison sites and they are coming back at just over a grand.
wonder if anyone could help or if anyone has experience with this sort of thing.

please no comments like: scrap the nova or set fire to it and buy a decent car, heard them all before haha

[ellis12345]

thanks, the cheapest ones are still coming up as £800 quid even if i say that i have 2 years no claims on a van....
ahh well, it looks like either fork out lots of money for a van and insurance or have to live with the fact i am slowly killing what was a perfect little nova up until 8 months ago.
waxoyl and underseal for christmas please