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General => Photography Section => Topic started by: perky85 on May 21, 2012, 05:30:02 pm

Title: Its not VAG!!
Post by: perky85 on May 21, 2012, 05:30:02 pm
It may not be VAG, but its definately an award winner.
 This started life as EX British Gas van & after many mods we have a unique end result.
Last year it won 3rd place in Light Commercial category at the truck show & this year we won 1st place.  :jumpmove:

(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv138%2Fantp85%2FPhoto0368.jpg&hash=bcc6643ad749855d56bf0b3014753433e5b1f7ec)
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(https://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fdaz.co%2Fmedia%2Fv138%2Fantp85%2FPhoto0364.jpg&hash=43c6dbffcd8d2e2dceaa3229f4273f8065963144)
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Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: Nodz on May 21, 2012, 05:46:42 pm
Nice work  :happy2: I was looking into getting one of them at one point (might have needed one for work) and was going to do something similar. What truck show did it win at??
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: perky85 on May 21, 2012, 05:55:01 pm
It was Oswestry Truck show. It was a bit wet this year, they were towing trucks into the showground it was that wet!!
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: Nodz on May 21, 2012, 06:14:49 pm
Not been to that one yet. Dad said it was the same at the show at peterborough this year with drivers refusing to park on the grass.
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: PDT on May 21, 2012, 07:57:43 pm
Very nice  :happy2:


:fitafocusrsengine:
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: perky85 on May 21, 2012, 08:30:30 pm
Thanks Dave,

Focus RS engine had been looked into, but the engines & scrap RS's are big money :surprised:
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: JoeDarKa on May 21, 2012, 09:05:17 pm
A friend of mine built x 2 transit connect RS powered vans. He also had one with a cossie engine in, painted black with "private ambulance" stickers on it!  :jumpmove:
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: perky85 on May 21, 2012, 09:14:18 pm
Would that be geoff from CSG?
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: JoeDarKa on May 22, 2012, 07:09:54 am
It would be indeed
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: GTImike on May 22, 2012, 08:58:37 am
A friend of mine built x 2 transit connect RS powered vans. He also had one with a cossie engine in, painted black with "private ambulance" stickers on it!  :jumpmove:

Small world, I know 'short arse' Geoff too haha,

I used to knock about with him years ago, always see his creations on facebook. That black one looked evil
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: perky85 on May 22, 2012, 10:11:24 am
A couple lads I know down my way did the first cossie tranny back in the day. They did a lot of mad builds on Fords.

I have seen Geoff's vans at the shows :smiley:
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: GTImike on May 22, 2012, 12:48:33 pm
Ah yeah, I remember when Geoff had a Transit Cossie in Imperial Blue a good few years ago.

I ended up dabbling in a few fast fords myself about 10-15 years ago, in between all my german motors. Had a mint low mile 1990 Escort RS Turbo, a less mint 1987 Escort RS Cab with a tweaked series 1 motor (for about 3 months over winter....wrong timing!) and a magenta sapphire 2wd cossie lastly and again briefly - was always worried about it going pop and costing me big time.

There's a garage in a quiet little village near us that always has plenty of old school fast fords outside. I used to always have a nosey when I was dropping my motorbikes off for MOT's next door.

Nice Connect by the way!
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: Sophie123 on May 22, 2012, 10:37:30 pm
Wicked van! :happy2:
Title: Re: Its not VAG!!
Post by: JoeDarKa on May 23, 2012, 08:52:17 pm
His missus has got a pink focus rs that he built for her