Ford Transit Mk1, Mk2, Mk3 & Mk4 vans & pickups (UK-market 1st & 2nd generation Transits)
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Ford's legendary Transit van & pickup is the subject of this classic collection, with early Mk1 & Mk2 Transits joined by the later Mk3 & Mk4 (the latter often referred to as the "smiley" thanks to its grille shape).
UK-market vans & pickups pre-dominate but there also a number of special-bodied Fords in this mixture, including campers, ambulances, fire-fighting vans, recovery trucks, minibus, ice cream vans and other variants based on the classic Ford Transit chassis.
There can be few people around in the UK who haven't experienced a Transit at some point, directly or indirectly, perhaps hired during a housemove, belonging to tradepeople working on your house, or pemaybe rhaps acting as a transport for your band's equipment in between gigs! My thanks to Keith who provided a number of the older photos showing Transits in service with his family's plant hire business back in the day, the rest are vehicles that I've seen here and there over the years. Your memories of the Ford Transit Mk1-Mk4 welcomed as always in the comments. Sadly Transits are no longer made in the UK, so this collection of photos harks back to when they were truly British-built vehicles.
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I think the Transit deserves the title of being an icon vehicle, like the Morris Minor, original Mini, E Type Jaguar and the Citroën DS19/21 any other vehicles deserve the icon title? Again another interesting video. Thank you Richard.
Great collection. Transit vans very popular in Australia, especially the series 1.
Where would the world be without the Ford Transit I wonder.
I always loved the early transits.
Aye they are characterful old things for sure
The mark 1 petrol was a V4 - 1663cc, the Perkins diesel 1621cc, which was an inline 4, hence the longer bonnet. Amazing, thanks for showing this, an amazing van.
Hi.. Did Perkins supply a 2360cc or 2460cc engine for the circa 1971/2 Transit.
Thanks for another great video.
I would like to add a couple of things
which may be of interest to you.
The 'Camper van' T 758 AOJ, is an ex British Telecom van of which there were hundreds of them around. I was living in Birmingham in the 1970s and remember these vans when they were new. They were in a light grey livery with BT decals on.
In the video, part of the original grey livery is visible on the front and on the roof. The other tell tale signs are the tool locker on the side, and the Birmingham registration plate.
The high roof orange Transit Reg no VNM 578 K was Fords answer to the Commer 'Walk Thru' van. Also in the 1970s, I worked for Supreme Laundries of Smethwick. They operated Commers and Transits identical to the one in the video.
They had sliding front doors for getting in and out easier, and had the high roof so that laundered garments could hang freely and not get creased
Hi whizzo thanks for the useful info!!
great blog on the transit i got a transit mk6 and had mk1 2 3 4 and 5 they are great vans and number 1 van Gary from Crewe 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Remember being driven in my mate's dad's mk.1 custom flatbed tranny (with overdrive!) in 1983. They had a lettuce nursery and used to take produce to Hull market. Drove and stopped well - we nearly missed a junction but somehow made it! 😁👍
My brother in law and his brother Had a mk1 bread van with the v4, they swapped in a mk2 zephyr 6 diff, a 289 Ford V8 and put the long nose from the 6 cylinder on it for clearance, it was a traffic light beast, they used it to haul around their homemade 6 wheel skid steer buggy.
Sounds like fun!! Thanks for watching
Great video about the Transit MK1,2,3,4. The beautiful grey MK1 LWB with number TAM78M shown in the video, was converted from LHD to RHD in Wheeler Dealers some time ago. You can find this also on UA-cam.
Thank you for Transit fest owned two a Mk 3 and 4 , great vans converted one for a wheelchair for my late son was real Transit fan , we still have a large collection of models !
Cool vid , I’ve got a mk2 Aussie sundowner transit great fun to cruise about in 👍
I enjoyed looking at the Transits my mk1 was built with the nose on the front with a v6 petrol engine
I have a mk1 with mk2 front with a 3.0v6 engine ,converted from camper to pickup
Hi good collection of photos of transits I own a 1967 twin wheel pickup fully restored .
I have always known them as Bullnose NOT Pignose
The Transit certainly deserves its place in history as a truly ' landmark ' vehicle , providing car like comfort , durability and versatility .I recall so well as a young apprentice for Post Office Telephones in December 1965 out in a large Commer Karrier gang lorry pulling in cables through under road ducting when a brand new dark green Transit rolled up with the inscription ' Custom ' on its side front wings looking realy quite futuristic and the driver discussing just how wonderful it was to drive !.
first MK 2 Transit Had Round Headlights , I’ve One it’s 1982 popular in The The Red/ Orange Colour , I had It as a Mobile Workshop Fixing And Repairing Trucks.
Back in the early 80s for a short time I worked for our local health authority as a driver. there were quite a few twin rear wheeled petrol engined combis. They could double as a van and a minibus but the side facing seats, slatted folding ones, were later outlawed as unsafe and quite right. They were a delight to drive and worked hard for their living. They were all converted to use both petrol and LPG.
Worked as an agricultural engineer in the 1980's and 90's and in that time drove three different SWB Transit vans. The 1st one was a mk 2 2.0 litre petrol UNL 498Y, then a mk 3 2.0 litre petrol E604 BAL and finally a mk 4 diesel J73 LCU. All were fully laden most of the time and were thrashed to within an inch of their lives. In all the time I drove them, I only ever had two minor breakdowns, one of the petrol model had an ignition coil fail and the other petrol one had a front wheel bearing break up. Vans were so basic then, there was little to go wrong, unlike today models.
I had a Transit MK1 as my company vehicle, work and pleasure, it had sliding doors and the reg suffix D.
Oft were the times I had to retrieve a door which had fallen off the slide rail 😢
:-)
BTDT 😁
My 1970 Mk1 SWB van was 8 years old and well used when I got it (£245!!!) I ran her for 2 years, constantly overloaded on very hard work , with minimal repairs etc required , and still got a few quid when I sold her, ................. the best value vehicle I've ever owned, .......PS, had the 2 litre V4 out of the 200e Carsair in her (105 BHP ??) ..... so she went like the clappers!
BIG thanks to OCC 🙂🙃
My favourite Transit is the long wheel base mk2.
Hi fellas i had a mk 1 cab chassis pig nose Aust version powered by the iron head 250 on a Borg worner auto great to drive thanks 👍👍🇦🇺
Excellent video 👍👍👍
Thank you 👍
I lived in Southampton for many years on the same side of the city as the factory. Though the factory was in Eastleigh, known as 'The home of the Transit'. For many years you could see some drive past the top of our road with a person sat on a seat wearing a blue helmet, no body on the vehicle. It used to look very strange. We never found out what these were but my guess is they were a special of some description. Sadly the factory closed in about 2012 I think not many years after I left the area. Thanks Rick It was very a enjoyable video. 👍👍
hi there, great video,great to see the mk1 transits, Jack Regan from the Sweeney would be very proud you showed all these mk1s as they were always in the sweeney tv series
KGF classic cars have a mk1 for sale at the moment which I’ve been admiring. Love a Transit 👍
Back in my rock band days towards the end of the 70s, we regularly used a diesel powered, pig snout, twin rear wheel Mk 1 to get us to and from gigs. Affectionately known as The Lobster (It was an orangey-red colour), it was not the most reliable of vehicles. It finally gave up on us on the Haverhill ring road on the way to a gig in Essex. After that it was hired Luton box vans. Transits, of course.
I've not seen since I was a kid a mk1 transit with walker rear body
They sort of look like a skip on back, i do have a photo taken late 70s early 80s
Google it thst might out you in my post on transit forum
I preferred the Bedford CF 😂
Smiley is mk5
I've got a 68 swb twin sliding door van flat front
9:06 Rau GmbH Germany do build AWD Transits
Where do you get your carb rebuild kits from for the angler as on our 52 prefect the bowl gasket is no longer
It's been a while since I bought a set, but is there a gasket on the float bowl? the only float bowl gasket I can think of offhand is where the emulsion block screws on the side? One of the small Ford parts suppliers will probably stock whatever you need, or the FSOC if you're a member.
Really enjoyed that, do you have many escort mk1 van pics ?.
Very few Escort van pics sorry, rarely see them
@Old Classic Car no problem to be fair I'm not surprised, they didn't last very long due to rust .
Wonder what they fetch now, if you can find one .
They were rare even in the late eighties.
Was the bull nose also for a V6 engine..
Yes - special order only and IIRC only for the Police Ambulance etc etc
Bull nose version in Australia was used by Ford to house the Falcon inline six of 3.3 litres or 200 cu in as they called it. There might have been a 4.1 litre 259 cu in version as well. Very under stressed giving low servicing costs.
Australian one on UA-cam by searching Transit Van six cylinder 200. For one in its old age being mistreated.
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