Omega Owners Forum
Chat Area => General Car Chat => Topic started by: joshwyatt on 01 October 2011, 20:13:22
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In a moment of madness I bought the following...
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Transit-Armoured-Security-Van-W-reg-2000-/290612201264?pt=UK_Commercial_Trucks&hash=item43a9d64730
Collected it today, it's certainly unique and looks 'interesting' on the drive ;D
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hi Josh.... i'm back.... ;D
moment of madness? probably,... i have to ask ... why???? planning on starting a competitor for securicor???
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Dont tell me, its only going to get used once a week when you do your banking Josh.
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Just needs a sign painted on the side .. "Free candy!" ;D
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I knew it was rough in Oxford but not that much ;D
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gotta ask....why!
but love it!
A team paint job?
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Max - Good to see you again, where have you been? How's the MV6 going?
Haha well, I just thought...why not?
Fix it 'n' bodge it money services at your service ::)
Chris, I wish I had enough money to even fill 1/4 of the van :D
Aaron...how about, free Omega parts and take it to the next meet? Who could we trap?
Daz - I heard you were on your way down, so I had to take appropriate mesaures :P
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I'm undecided yet James.
Initial plans are to tidy up the arches and get it looking decent.
It weights 2760 kg unladen and only has the 2.5 76ps engine...so some of the internal structure and doors will go to lighten it a bit...no need for a strong room and safe really.
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have you been drinking that monkeyshit coffee again ;D
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definitely.... ;D
Josh, i had an extended period of what might best be described as "ill health" and some serious fall out resulting... (see my public apology thread in general chat.... )
i'm more or less stable , and working back to where i had intended to be this time last year....
Mv6 is about to get a birthday present .... and a half....
it deserves it, poor thing....
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Josh mate why???.... but seeing how you are now collecting old sheds...my company (co op banking group) has 25 sprinter vans (that are cit vans) they are trying to get shot of prehaps you could put an offer in lol..one good owner...serval rotten lol :y
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Only one careful owner :) ;D ;)
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now thats not a bad idea would save tools being pinched you could also put one of those signs on it no tools/money left in this vehicle overnight ;D :y
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I'm undecided yet James.
Initial plans are to tidy up the arches and get it looking decent.
It weights 2760 kg unladen and only has the 2.5 76ps engine...so some of the internal structure and doors will go to lighten it a bit...no need for a strong room and safe really.
Thats going to be light on its feet :o
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I'm undecided yet James.
Initial plans are to tidy up the arches and get it looking decent.
It weights 2760 kg unladen and only has the 2.5 76ps engine...so some of the internal structure and doors will go to lighten it a bit...no need for a strong room and safe really.
Thats going to be light on its feet :o
When I used to do a real job, I had a tranny with the smallest 2.5 diesel (so, 76ps), and I popped it on a weighbridge one day, as I was sure it was overweight (was by 100kg), so 2.9t. Still used to sit at 100mph all day, every day, on the M1 ::)
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I'm undecided yet James.
Initial plans are to tidy up the arches and get it looking decent.
It weights 2760 kg unladen and only has the 2.5 76ps engine...so some of the internal structure and doors will go to lighten it a bit...no need for a strong room and safe really.
Thats going to be light on its feet :o
When I used to do a real job, I had a tranny with the smallest 2.5 diesel (so, 76ps), and I popped it on a weighbridge one day, as I was sure it was overweight (was by 100kg), so 2.9t. Still used to sit at 100mph all day, every day, on the M1 ::)
i think the old transit is a work horse...i was given a hiretop L.W.B transit...that would rattle a long at 95 mph..totally inpractical for work...but i now have V.W transporter....now that goes at an amazing rate of knotsand drives like a car..BUT dont think it will last as long as a transit :y
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the last transit i had , was a 4x4 3.0 v6 .
back up when we lived in North Wales..... and ran a PA hire company....
that was fun..... ;D
there used to be rather a lot you could do to an essex lump..... ;) much more open to "suggestion" than the 2.8 lump.... a bit like the difference between the 3.0 and the 3.2 in the miggy.... squeezing extra grunt from a 3.0 is fairly straight forward.... but i've not seen anything really valid for a 3.2 ...
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I can fully understand the urge to buy that tranny, 20+ years ago I bought an ex-diplomatic MK1 Granada on a whim. Toughened glass, armour plated body panels (supposedly bullet proof) and the inner rims that could still be driven on if shot out. (untested!)
I only had it for a couple of months because the petrol costs crucified me, I think I was getting 10mpg. Sold it on to a dealer I knew who was as curious as me about it :)