Rescuing a vintage COMMER van

[@brianfearn4246]

Fabulous video, those Leyland trucks were the backbone for most of the bread bakery deliveries and they were everywhere back in the 60s70s mostly sunblest bakery painted in yellow and local council used them for street light maintenance those were painted red .

[@elheffeschopshop]

Awesome! This is the 2nd one i have seen in person ahah, pretty rare truck these days

[@whosjoe90]

These were a great van, and they actually run fine with the standard running gear! same 1725 cc motor as a Hillman Superminx , that and then morphed into the Hillman Hunter with an alloy cylinder head!. Had one back in the 90's and it never broke down ever. but I am a mechanic so it helps when you understand old pommy cars! just found you off xacoupeguy! subbed! cheers

[@elheffeschopshop]

Oh awesome! I figured they would be a copy of one of the old english motors! Unfortunately just sold this rig, onto different things i guess Thanks mate ! Grahams a lovely chap

[@awatea36]

OMG, my dad had one of these Commer's back in the 70's as a work van. Always felt like Iwas floating as we drove around with him. Not long after the company dad worked for got brand new Nissan Caball. Now that was an exciting vehicle to ride in. Had very fond memories of both. Looking forward to see how the restore goes on this one.

[@elheffeschopshop]

Thats awesome! This will be getting moved on unfortunately :(

[@geoffreyrose1620]

Go the Commer Van , had one in the 70s , great bong room at the pub

[@elheffeschopshop]

Hahah!

[@gerrysongs4170]

Beatles van!

[@jaws6869]

Hi did you sell both your commers?

[@elheffeschopshop]

Hey mate i did not, im still waiting to pick the second one up, if youre interested message me on facebook :) jeph watt

[@TimPBar]

What was the end result of this project?

[@elheffeschopshop]

Ended up selling it as i bought a hiace. and i couldnt contact the guy who sold me this to get him to sell me the other one

[@TimPBar]

@@elheffeschopshop 😪

[@DoctorWEBB]

Hey mate, I've just started helping midway on a huge property clean up. There's the tree Squashed middle banana commer remains of a van just like yours. 99% it's/was the same model commer. Its all complete incase you need any parts.? It Might have a straight door thats still salvageable to fix your alby Manglés version. I'd assume... Its even the Same colour. I was thinking of cutting the nose off. & salvaging it as a wall hanger. Before the scrap yard claims the lot & makes it completly vanish in that form & gone-forever. Il upload some footage very soon . So keep an eye out.

[@elheffeschopshop]

Hey mate that sounds super interesting! What area is it in? I have another commer coming and plan on selling the two but i sure do love a story and spare parts

[@elheffeschopshop]

Also shoot me a link to your page i cant seem to access it :)

[@DoctorWEBB]

@@elheffeschopshop that's weird. Not sure why you can't access it🤔 ABANDONED CAR RESCUE ADVENTURES: kzbin.info/aero/PLtR11uNhRTRrzUr5oJ39nlyFusfvhF3dR Iam from down Pakenham way