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General Category => CF Bedford Chat => Topic started by: danvanman on June 14, 2010, 10:29:52 AM
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Hi all, just a quick fun thred. Just wondering how long have you Buga's owned your Beddy's.
I'll start with 22years,::) thats half my life. I reckon I've saved tens of thousands on accomadation cost's by living out of it for months at a time,not to mention taxi fares, and it's served me well with the lady's having a comfy bed parked out the back of the pub with an esky full of drinks and a bottle of Baily's on ice!!! ;) Can travel with surfboards,snow boards,fishing gear, tools, cloths and more and still have a bed unclutterd. :o
Maybe the freedom she gave me is the reason i'm still single,no kids(that I know of as friends will say)
but at least she's been a faithful and loyal companion and the one thing that stood by me throu thick and thin,good and bad times,if I lived in Vagas we would have been Married long ago!!!Ha Ha 8)
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I've had my truck now for about 5 years. When my old xd ford ute got put off the road by the cops, i needed some other vehicle to load stuff into, hence getting the beddie and also the price was right$400.00 ;D
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I was building a J1 Bedford Pick-up (look in my gallery) and came across my Bedford Van about 4 years ago so i sold the J1 project and got the Bedford van and been having fun ever since same as danvanman i have saved heaps in accomadation going to hotrod shows and swap meets.Allan
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had my 1st beddy 8 years, the 2nd one 3 years, the 3rd one 5 years, the 4th one 12 months [still have it] the 5th one 4 months [still have it].......seems i havent had any time lately too even look at the 2 i have......need some incentive!!!!!!
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2 months.
It's been quite a build up....
mini panel van, daihatsu 2-stroke van, escort panel van, hr panel van, kombi van, mazda e2200 van... etc.
The last 8 years without a van (had a ute) has created a hunger that only a LWB beddy could satisfy.
This morning after the world cup game I pulled the curtains and had a snooze in the middle of collingwood.
love it
derek
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had mine about 5 yrs but havnt driven it yet. only started fixing her up a few months ago. hopefully about a month to go
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I've had a hankering for beddies since I first layed eyes on a yellow V8 in Tamworth, I was just a spotty kid then :D
I've had Boris for over 12 years, and Natasha is a relatively new possesion only had her 12 months or so.
Warren
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Kimbosound, is that 17 or 18+ years of beddy joy?? Or is that overlap years??
I think we should allow updates. And if you had one lost it and got another one, just minus the gap without one. 8)
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Not my first not my last, had it about 3 years, driven it once (12k to new place, overheated go figure) have just put drivers side into high fill, to friggin cold at night to go to shed so will probably be another 3 years, unless those lotto numbers come in ;D then it will be in a bigger shed parked alongside one for every day of the week
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I bought my first swb when I was 19 307/t350 top nick .sadly had her 10 days and rolled her at 75 mph have had 14 more over the years (had 7 at one stage :o ;D) still got 3.5 now ;) ::)
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hey Dan......i got my first one at age 18.....the one that is my avitar......it was white with sliding doors......spent 14,000 dollars doing it up in the 80's......pretty much had beddies ever since.....carting music gear, band wagons and such.....have 2 swb trucks now.....can see all my beddies in my gallery...........
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have had mine 20 years last month, probably still will in another 20. Was 19 when I first bought it, parents hated it when I got it and said I'm going to customise it. After I finished it and started showing it and winning trophys they warmed up to it, now think its great.
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Very nice rides kimbo and cfjeff. I was 14 when I first seen one and said thats what i want. But when i got my liscence I could only afford a HG panel van. :'( It wasn't untill I was 22 and my combi was T-boned and rolled onto my roof I got the Beddy with the Insurance money!
Merlin have you got an aircraft hanger out the back, were do you keep 7 beddy's at one time? :o
Also merlin spit it out,how many years you been beddying??? ::)
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I reckon Ive owned this one about 4 years and have driven it Monday to Friday except for about 3weeks broken down, 2 recently and except whilst I was on holidays, I owned one in europe for a year or so also.
Great vans great memories
Dave
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G'day
I tried to buy a new CFS van in 1975 but the Holden Dealer at Parkes wouldn't sell me one. He told me to come back when I was ready to buy a HJ panel van. So I bought a secondhand Hiace and put a XU1 202 into it. Had a couple more Hiaces including one that did 1,000,000 kms before being totally worn out.
I bought my first CF in 1985 from an apprentice mechanic at Brains Ford in Coonabarabran. Over the next 12 months I replaced most of it and used it as a work van for about 8 years.
In 1986 bought a V8 powered CFS that was being used by a painter who had trouble getting his ladders on the roof racks. It had been a paper delivery van in Mudgee and had at least 500,000kms on the clock. I used it for 16 years doing up to 75,000kms per year, so it was a very high mileage vehicle when retired. Parts I put into it included: 2x253 and 2x308 motors, 2xT400s, 2 drivers seats, 4 front-ends and all on a Chevy 12 bolt diff.
It was a bloody good van:
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At one time I had 7 registered vans and trucks but eventually they succumbed to staff with poor driving habits. I love the CF but I have always done too many miles and wear them out, bend them up, or just break them. I currently have too many dead Bedfords and need to get one going.
The new job is low mileage (10kms/day) so I should be able to do it.
I am currently runnuing around in a Suzuki Carry Van, which is a ball of fun, but not in the same league as a CF.
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Blackbedford you seem to be our longest beddy owner so far, 25 years!!
Anybody out there been a Buga for longer???
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Hi Guys,
I only joined the forum about a month ago, just looking for ideas for my long term beddy van.
The long story,
my beddy was new in 1974, and spent the first 4 years of its life as a pick up/delivery van (about 235,000 klm's) for Kodak in and around Melbourne suburbs
I bought it in 1978 and drove it for nearly a year before the engine broke a timing gear (202), at the time I was renting a factory so while I had the space
I thought I should strip it back to bare metal and paint it as well.
Well the long story is I still have it and its no nearer to going back on the road!
It has only seen daylight on three days since 1979, on the move from one factory to the next, then to a new garage I built where we were living,
and then the last move to my new big shed where it has been for the last 10 years. Its still in bare metal, all it ever got was a thin coat of etch primer
to keep the rust at bay, but on the entire van the only spot of actual rust is about the size of a mig weld "spot" on the gutter rail.
It has no side windows and the frustrating thing is it also was almost dent free untill the last move here, as I rolled another car off a tandem
trailer and it took off across the floor and just nudged both rear doors, it should be a reasonably easy repair though.
The only body mod I have done is cut the front doors down so the steps are filled in, was a great idea at the time (1984) but now I'm not sure it was the right thing to do.
I havn't done a search here yet but has anyone else cut their doors down?
There are some great builds on this site but I am still inclined to keep this as stock looking as possible, just a set of wheels and as low as possible
I don't think I could even fit flared guards it is just too clean to play with.
keep up the great builds on this site,
cheers
Gazza
ps, thats nearly 31 years (as I shake my head for taking so long)
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OK Danvanman Ill fess up i got my first one in 82 it was a 75 model i was only 19 (god help me pun intended) im 47 this year so that makes it 28 years.... SHIT i feel old ;D :D btw i just scored another one haha ;D
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Ok mine's bigger ha ha ha!
I am 49 got my first one (in Craigs Gallery) at 17,so thats 32 years ago.
In total owned 5 good beddies and had hands on appox 30 more with Craig sharing a few of those.
Original High rollers member at the second meeting they ever had which at that time numbered 53 people.
Damn I wish I had some of them back!!!!!!
here ya go-http://www.buga.com.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=13495&g2_serialNumber=2
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Ahhh, Merlin I susspected as much. ;D
It seems to be a tie with beddyowner and pickmeup, but we'll have to give it pickmeup as he has had so many and obviously done alot more with them.
Beddyowner you may possibly have your hands one the best (original) beddy boddy's.
I reckon it's time to biuld?? :D
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hey merlin when you bought your first beddy i wasnt yet born:(
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9 grand months ;D ;D . luved em since i was a joey back in W Isle. . young bloke across the road had a 60,s model, he used to give me n bruvs/sisters a ride to school in it in winter, & boys i remember, were u ;D "kingshiteatingrin" ;D if u woz last in an got to sit up the front wiv the pilot. First gazed upon :-* "my beloved" :-* at an extended family members place on me last birthday, an bought it on impulse, just happed to hav the right amount sittin in my back pocket at the time n figured "it woz meant to be" . . :-* love at first sight :-*. . ;D ;D ;D
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bought my 1st one in 1985 been going since then.
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got the first when l was 23, lwb 253, trimatic, salsbry and we decked it out as a camper. was going to sell up and take off around Auss, but son came along. That went and 5 years later bought another, 327 SWB, burandy, dragways and more, wife didn't like cleaning the interior(velvet) due to bloody kids again. the kids have grown up, got the van and a collecting bits. THIRD TIME LUCKY and no more kids so we will get to do Auss
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T- 4days until my first Beddy is delivered to my doorstep, er driveway