Bedford CA vans

Hey Britbongs, these look comfy as fuck. What can you tell me about them?

They have almost most of everything that's good about a VW and in some ways they're better.

The Perkins 4.108 Diesel is slow, but will go on forever. If you find a C/A with a Perkins its likely still on the original engine.

The other engine was a 1.5L petrol from the Vauxhall Victor. Infact most of the drive train was shared with the Vauxhall Victor.

The one in your picture is the second version with the smaller grille and curved windscreen.
Attached is the first version with split windscreen, flat glass and split grille.
3 speed column shift, small seats, and no power brakes or power steering so you may find it difficult to drive if you're used to power everything.
But its still quite fun to drive and easy on bumps thanks to the independent front suspension.

The sliding door is the shit for hot climates and delivery men.

Today they may seem quirky, but they were probably the UK's best van for the day and remained so until the Ford Transit BTFO of everything in 1965.
Morris was still using pre-war tech.
Pretty much the only worthy UK competitors were the Landrover 109 van and the Ford Thames.

The French had the Citroen H, Peugeot D3, D4 which were bretty good, and the Germans had VW, Taunus Transit, and Mercedes L319. VW sold pretty well and the Taunus Transit was good, but the best over all from every country was obviously Mercedes.

what can you sum up in a few sentences about them?

didnt ask for a fucking story

I'm not that guy but you're a cunt senpai

>Bedford
They'll be unreliable as fuck and rusted to shit, then. British cars of the era were like that due to communist-infiltrated unions.

You're thinking of the 70's and British Leyland.

Bedfords were great. The J Type, KM, TL etc. All solid Trucks.

Welp. I was going to point out that anything before the japanese introduced reliable cars as an alternative is inherently UNreliable, especially these days, but dem quads don't lie.

why so rude when asking for help?

You're an asshole. Fuck you. May you get raped in the back of a poorly maintained Bedford be a guy with face tattoos and questionable citizenship

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