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1983 Ford Transit Ice Cream Van Whitby MkII

1983 Ford Transit MkII in Top Gear, Non-fiction TV, 2002-2015 IMDB Ep. 5.01

Class: Cars, Van / MPV — Model origin: UK

1983 Ford Transit Ice Cream Van Whitby MkII

[*][*] Minor action vehicle or used in only a short scene

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Star Wars Fanatic EN

2006-08-22 22:03

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How many bouncy castles can you jump with an ice cream truck?

antp BE

2006-08-22 22:31

[:rofl] they are crazy in that show

explorer4x4

2006-08-22 23:08

Crazy doesn't quite capture it.

G-MANN UK

2006-08-22 23:21

But doesn't it look it would be a lot of fun to do?

picky EN

2008-02-16 19:43

this van along with another bedford cf ice cream van, were used in a scene of "the bill"where both vans were seen to be burnt out. it was originally intended to fit nitros oxide for the jumping scene above, but was later dropped as it was considered to be to dangerous.

ecclefechan SX

2008-11-18 12:37

Those Transits are pretty rare nowadays. It's a bit of a shame to destroy it.

Ingo DE

2008-11-18 17:25

The conditions was rough before, just see the plenty of rust. Underneath the chassis it would have been worse, I'm quite sure.

CarChasesFanatic ES

2008-11-18 17:35

I pretty doubt that destroying vehicles like this is better than restoring them, it could had been rusty but there's always a solution for that...

paul4990 EN

2008-11-18 19:15

@ecclefechan: its only a bloody transit van

ecclefechan SX

2008-11-18 19:30

paul4990 wrote @ecclefechan: its only a bloody transit van


Better than an Allegro Vanden Plas! :lol:

Animatronixx DE

2008-11-18 22:03

ecclefechan wrote Those Transits are pretty rare nowadays. It's a bit of a shame to destroy it.


So true! Too many commercial vehicles get lost, exported or destroyed because only few people take care of them. In 20 years, you´ll still find a huge selection of assorted sports cars, coupes, sedans etc. of the same period - but how many contemporary Transits will be available then?

I believe this ice cream body was manufactured by Whitby.

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chris40 UK

2008-11-18 22:15

I've driven a fair number of Mk.I and II Transits in my time, and several Bedford CFs (their main competitor in the UK ... and other markets, too). The Transit was nice to drive if you didn't load it to capacity; I always reckoned it was a van designed to be driven by car drivers. I wouldn't have cared to own one, though; to my mind the CF was a much better workhorse.

Ingo DE

2008-11-19 20:27

In the mid-90ies I had the chance to drive our oldest company-car at that time, a 1981 Transit Van. A rare version: transporter with windows, 2.0 liter-engine with automatic transmission.
Shortly later I had the chance to buy it, for 300 DM (ca.150 Euro) or so. But I didn't. No space, no money to restore it - and finally I was very much pissed on Ford, because of their "scrap-car-action" in the 90ies. You got 3000 D-Marks discount by buying a new Ford, if you gave your old car (no catalysator) for them to scrapping. And they have scrapped all of them! It was not possible to get it later as a used car, even not from the junkyard! This was a reason, why a plenty of real good classic cars have been crushed in Germany in the 90ies, relly nice early 70ies-car from old people, rustfree with 30 000 km on the clock or so.

This is the reason, why I hate the bloody Ford-company until now! Damn this fucking little-rat-shop for all the time!!! Hopefully they will be going bankrupcy quite soon!

My wife said, that a Focus isn't a bad car. I've answered, that in the case, she would buy a Ford, she can forget to park the car in our house's garage definetely. Perhaps it's a reason for divorcing, too.


P.S. Back to the old Transit:driving it was a horror. Without load on a wet road with an Automatic-Transit: a disco's dancefloor during a foam-party is a Nürburgring-pavement against it!

-- Last edit: 2008-11-19 20:28:15

dicbrain906 CA

2012-12-04 06:40

My dad worked in Australia once and drove a automatic 4 cylinder gas transit. it was truly horrible. The company that owns it probably cant afford a V6 or Diesel 4 or that the gas4/auto was the only kind in aus.

TheHeartbreakKid15 EN

2022-01-13 00:14

1983. Reg was A175HVF.

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