If you ever get bored of Bays there are these:

The old Citroen HY van I love them.

Do you know a company in Bradford knocks them out for advertising and mobile food sales ( we have seen them at festivals no doubt?)

http://www.frenchclassiccars.co.uk/category/commercial/


Saw this one as a regular near work.



Hell of a lot cheaper than bays and handy for camper conversions.

But What do you think of this cheeky chappy?
Peugeot D3A

http://www.frenchclassiccars.co.uk/peugeot-d3a-camionette-1954-2/

 

One of my customers has one stuck on his drive. He had the mad idea it could work as a mobile pizza thing, but it's lived on a pig farm for 100 years from the look of it. Built from railway track and bomb shelters.

 

That's kinda cool in a dads army kinda way!

 

No need to worry about keeping the bodywork arrow straight shabby chic is king!

It was designed for function after the war but ironically those straight sides have a certain charm now- wellonly to nutters like me I suppose?

 

torpedo, you got to admire their optimism

 

Theres one on the kids tv show annabells kitchen

 

Here it is before they stuck that silly sign on

 

There are two in Portsmouth, one for a cool architectural salvage yard and one for Jamie Oliver restaurant which they use as an ice cream van in the summer

 

may have to pop over to this place. some lovely vehicles on the site. all these years and i never knew it existed.

 

I do like these trucks and I am not a fan of French vehicles. In any way but these are nice

 

the french always find a way to be different,we have a citreon ds in a work at the moment(not the new one) you can't help but love em they are just quirky and they look like something from out of thunderbirds.

 

We have said that converting a HY would be fun

 

More fun than driving one at a guess. Judging by the front bumbers - 1/2" thick spring steel mounted like leaf spring suspension - the brakes ain't much cop.

 

Your just making it sound even more fun zed

 

I admire, but wouldn't want one.

 

I worked on 2 one that became a coffee place and one as a camper she had all wooden French cupboards boy was it slow

 

They are a postwar design based on prewar mechanics so you have to compensate for it. The LWB versions might be the best campers with the most usual space but yes brakes will be pants as will acceleration but if you want modern spec buy a Transit! Hahha

I love the old DS but a sod to keep the hydraulics in check I would think? Imagine that turning up in the 50's it must have looked like a UFO by comparision to anything then?

 

Indeed I did prefer it before looks a bit camp with the whale fin on top!
I think its leased to them locally as I have seen some geezer drive it about through Hawarden?
Then seen another one bobbing about?

 

we have a few of them over here...

http://www.leboncoin.fr/utilitaires/369183146.htm?ca=20_s

and cheep...

 

I'd love one I think they look great. My old man always tells me when there is a new one on car and classic. Just waiting for him to send me a pic of one on his drive