1975 Ford Transit Pioneer
1975 Ford Transit Pioneer
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carmadgaz

Original Poster:

3,204 posts

212 months

Sunday 28th April 2013
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A few weeks ago I decided that a camper would be nice to have. I got chatting to the girlfriend's dad and he offered to go halves with me thumbup

Off to E-bay looking at Bedford CFs I went (dad had one when I was a kid) and then the neighbour sent me a link to a MK1 Transit...

I thought I'd have a punt on it and next thing I know I have won the auction.

Two days later and off I go to pick it up, A fuelling issue (air getting in somewhere) meant it eventually came back on a recovery lorry but it's home (still working on the source of the air leak).



Inside we have a shower, toilet (with new Thetford cassette), oven, 3 hob burner, 3-way fridge and sink. The hot water system is currently broken but I'll fix that once the engine is running properly!




Planning on using it to with the Scouts/ Cadets while we are out and about and so the gf and I can just disappear to the coast for the weekend when the weather is nice.

HereBeMonsters

14,180 posts

211 months

Sunday 28th April 2013
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Epic. Bet it was cheap too!

hadenough!

3,785 posts

289 months

MJK 24

5,676 posts

265 months

Sunday 28th April 2013
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Nice retro camper!

£100 to powder coat the wheels and a hard days graft with some Autoglym will see that shining like a new pin!

Re getting air in the fuel - presume it is diesel?

carmadgaz

Original Poster:

3,204 posts

212 months

Sunday 28th April 2013
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That is indeed the one we've bought smile. At £1550 we could dismantle it for fixtures and fittings and make most of it back smile . It is indeed diesel, a MK3 2.5Di and a 5speed box biggrin