New Van

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My dad had a CA not a camper but it had a settee in the back and it was our daily drive. I have 2 brothers and 2 sisters and they didn't really have people carriers back then.

My uncle had a smaller van which he used as a sort of camper (An Austin I think). He took me and my 2 brothers for a drive and left the road taking a bend too fast. The van rolled twice but we all emerged without a scratch!
 
My parents bought the minibus version , it was the first new car they had ever bought , it lasted less than 6 months , as a straying cart horse ran into it when my father was driving home late at night after dropping some visitors back . We had been aay in it a few times , camping , used to put mattress down in back for younger siblings to sleep on drive home late at night to miss traffic .
 
When I left boarding school in the 1950s my pal was also leaving on the same day.
His dad came to collect him in one of these and as my home town was on his way he gave me a lift.

I can still remember trundling along the A40 at a heady 45 mph.

Dezi
 
I remember that the sliding door had no catch on it to hold the door open when travelling. This meant that an emergency stop SHOULD have made the door slam shut.

I don't think it ever happened though, an emergency stop usually involved a couple of down changes, standing on the brake pedal and a trickle down to 0 from about 15mph by which time a Sloth with a Zimmer frame could have got out of the way!
 
Robmac said:
I remember that the sliding door had no catch on it to hold the door open when travelling. This meant that an emergency stop SHOULD have made the door slam shut.

I don't think it ever happened though, an emergency stop usually involved a couple of down changes, standing on the brake pedal and a trickle down to 0 from about 15mph by which time a Sloth with a Zimmer frame could have got out of the way!
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Wonderful what the NHS can do these days.

Dezi
 
Robmac said:
I remember that the sliding door had no catch on it to hold the door open when travelling. This meant that an emergency stop SHOULD have made the door slam shut.

I don't think it ever happened though, an emergency stop usually involved a couple of down changes, standing on the brake pedal and a trickle down to 0 from about 15mph by which time a Sloth with a Zimmer frame could have got out of the way!
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Funny but true....😆😆😆😆
 
My friend brother had a ca van strange thing is it is the only registration no I can remember I was about 9 years old KCO 17 ,
 
About 1970 I was in Peckham on loan from Police to help a charity . I had to run a youth club , it was for kids barred from the other youth clubs ! and also drive a CA minibus taking girls from the private schools who ran charity to visit with oap's , also took boys from local schools who were doing house maintenance jobs eg painting , gardening for the oap's etc. As previous poster , no seatbelts , doors open at front (it was summer time ). It was quite quick of the mark , but the column change let it down .
 
molly 2 said:
My friend brother had a ca van strange thing is it is the only registration no I can remember I was about 9 years old KCO 17 ,
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Always remember the reg on Dad's CA Bazz, it rhymed;

UUT 763

Years after he sold it, my sister went out with a chap. When she split up with him, we didn't see him for years, when we eventually did he was living in the Pub we lived in as kids (long since closed down and converted to a house) and he was driving Bessy our old CA resprayed glossy black and immaculate, he used it in his job as a roadie for a local band.

Purely all by coincidence I might add.
 
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