Any of you lot fancy a cheeeeeeeap van?

Mar 23, 2009 4 Replies

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Douglas Payne

I stood on the corner of the bonnet of an Escort Van once which released some magic smoke from the battery. (c: It didn't go on fire. Sadly there was so much play in the suspension by the end of a couple of laps of the banger derby that the driveshaft fell out of the gearbox.

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Because I've just thrown my glorious Escort van on ebay.



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Did it disintegrate when it hit the ground?

Ooh, that lasted a while. Sold by 3.10PM.

You can't beat a cheap old van.

You can... I've not managed to blow one up yet, mind. ;-)

I stood on the corner of the bonnet of an Escort Van once which released some magic smoke from the battery. (c:

It didn't go on fire.

Sadly there was so much play in the suspension by the end of a couple of laps of the banger derby that the driveshaft fell out of the gearbox.

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