I love it when a plan comes together.........

VaN has had a respray in a retro A-Team stylee.
Many thanks to Scooter Paul for the sprayer recommendation.
Steve did a perfect job in less than 24 hours.

Many thanks to Matt & Lisa for getting the van thro it's MOT at minimal outlay.

I love it when a plan comes together....

Signage has been designed and ordered so watch this space.......

A brief history of VaN

The VaN is a 1979 Leyland Sherpa conversion. It's chassis was made at the Leyland factory and then delivered to a Coachworks company who created a wooden frame and base and put sheet aluminium around it and installed the panoramic windows. The only original part of the Sherpa is the everything in front of the windscreen, the rest is custom built.

Once the VaN was converted Mr Manfredi drove the VaN 9 miles home. He then drove the VaN 3 miles to the market where he sold ice-cream and then 3 miles back. He did this 3 times a week for 31 years and the VaN has only clocked up 92823 miles.

Tax and Insurance

The ice-cream VaN wasn't running when we went to see it in Bolton. The engine started but the clutch had gone so the VaN wouldn't move. The chimes were working so we bought it and had it delivered to London the following week on the back of a low-loader. I was relieved actually because I had brought along warm clothes, hat, gloves and a wind-up radio in anticipation of driving it back to London that day.

A good friend of ours serviced the VaN and got her up and running. He broke numerous spanners and socket sets trying to remove rusted nuts on the VaN. He bled the clutch and drove it up and down the yard a few times.

I got it insured for midday and got to the VaN at midday very excited. We filmed me driving it for the first time and when I turned the key the battery was dead.
Then after charging the battery for about 2 hours the VaN started and we resumed filming. I went to put it in gear and the clutch had completely gone.

It Begins...nó bắt đầu

Classic Ice Cream Van

Leyland Sherpa Conversion

1979

Found this Van on ebay and travelled all the way to Bolton to look at it.... only really bought it because the original chimes were still working and played the theme tune to The Third Man.

We couldn't drive it back because it wasn't fully functional so we had it delivered to the coffee warehouse in London.

Our plan is to create a pop-up Vietnamese Cafe the same as we have created with http://www.caphevn.co.uk/saigon-street-cafe.html