Nice to see such diversity in culture amongst us Vauxhall'ers. Must say the forum has made the world small and all the more reason to hang on to these cars we are passionate about.

We had those Bedford panelvans here in South Africa, many of them and they threw all the slant motors out and replaced them with Ford V6 or various V8's. Today I wish I coulf go collect one from a scrapyard as spare for my Viva. These days we hardly see these vans anymore as well as the Transit's. What we now have here is an epidemic of mini-bus taxi's. The panelvan craze I think has also gone because it is now just too unsafe in South Africa to stop anywhere and sleep over.