A J type pick up for sale

According to the Facebook page, Save the Morris J type van, the above vehicle is for sale.
Currently fitted with a BMC 1.5 Diesel engine and gearbox. The original units are with the vehicle.
Contact the seller via the FB site for further details.

Shaping up?

The repaired wing, dents beaten out, the old indicator hole welded up and a skim of filler applied.
The whole wing now needs rubbing down and painting correctly, now where is that paint roller?
On a different note, a Morris J type pick-up truck may well be for sale shortly. If I get any further details I will pass them on.

Whoops.

 Let's talk gate posts.

 They just don't get on with J type front wings.

 So using this small dent as a good excuse to pop down to Devon and a body shop I know.
Yes an early start, we were going past Stonehenge at 8am, nice to see it but I do wonder when they will finish the building work.

Soon driving down a typical Devon village lane.

No problems encountered on the trip down, the dent and a previous repair were soon dealt with and with a skim of filler we set off at 1pm for the trip home.
I will repaint the wing myself, the body shop would have done it but I just did not want to hang about waiting for the paint to go off.
No real problem coming home just very heavy traffic which caused me to take an hour to drive the last 11 miles home.
All in all a nice round trip of just under 400 miles in a 57 year old van.

Australia, a vehicle display in the 1990's.

Thanks to Aussie Jas (Jason) for posting theses pictures on the Morris J type Facebook page.

Blenheim's classic car show.

Blenheim’s David Clark now owns his dream car – but it wouldn’t out run anything, not even speed limit-abiding traffic.

But it’s that yester-year charm and sense of fun of his newest pride and joy, a cream-coloured 1954 Morris J Van, that Clark will share with visitors at CRC Speedshow, New Zealand’s biggest automotive and motorsport event, being held in Auckland this week. Clark joins 40 other classic car and motorcycle owners in the Classic Cover Insurance Classic Show, a new classic show which is part of the eighth edition of CRC Speedshow at Auckland’s ASB Showgrounds over the weekend of 19 and 20 July.

The Morris van is something Clark has wanted for more than 12 years.
“I saw one advertising a café on the side of the road on the way to Takaka,” he explains. “Then I saw one (a Morris J van) advertised earlier in this year and I grabbed the opportunity. My wife Nikki tells me how caring she is to have bought me the magazine subscription the van was advertised in!”
Clark’s van was originally used to deliver goodies and materials when it was owned by Boons Bakery in Christchurch. The last owner, Graham Murray, from Paparoa, Christchurch, restored the van to its current condition in 1995. Two years ago it starred in a Canadian television advertisement for mayonnaise filmed in New Zealand. Everything on the van is original, and Mr Murray kept exceptional records for the vehicle, says Clark.
New owner, new name, and now the van is affectionately known as ‘Leslie Morris’ in a salute to legendary Kiwi film, ‘Goodbye Pork Pie’. Leslie Morris was the fictional licensed owner of the yellow Mini which made the mad run from Northland to Invercargill.
But unlike Pork Pie, the Morris J wouldn’t out run anything – not even speed limit-abiding traffic. “I’ve noticed the oil pressure gauge goes higher than the speedo,” Clark says with a smile.
One thing the Clark’s are looking forward to while being in Auckland is taking the van over the harbour bridge.
“I’m looking forward to cruising over the Auckland Harbour Bridge – with no seat belt on and the sliding door open, even if it is pretty cool this time of year.”
Clark is a self-confessed enthusiast of fine automobiles. He’s also the director of Wadsco Commercial Vehicles in Blenheim. “The Morris J is my weekend vehicle,” he adds proudly.

Ugly ice cream anyone?

The love child between a J van and a garden shed?

Norfolk 1950's registered van.

Hyde Park ice cream vans.

Recently pictured in Hyde Park selling ices.

942 BYY (ex GPO van) has now been joined by 9284 WB.

Looking like a fresh restoration, here is what it use to look like, when owned by Preston & Sons.

 Then restored to Tartaglia's livery.

Nice to see it out and about.

Further pictures from Gaydon, a very damp day indeed.

Thanks M.P. for the soaking wet pictures.

More period pictures.

 Moving on to the present day, Supermarket windows, a reflection on modern times?

This weekend sees the first ever Classic Van and Pick-up Show at Gaydon in Warwickshire. The J-type Register will have a display there with, if all goes according to plan, two J-types, five J/Bs and Ken Cooke’s Austin 101.