Ebay Bedford CF, Possible old Raleigh bmx team van ?

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www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BEDFORD-CF-250P-RARE-6-CYLINDER-AUTO-SPARES-OR-REPAIR-BARN-FIND-/271553036292?pt=Automobiles_UK&hash=item3f39d28004



Just been looking thru classics on ebay as ya do. And came accross this one  ^^ 

The colours stood out to me as they are the same as a set of Raleigh burner decals ive got staring at me from an old project,

I sware ive seen an old shot from back in the day, Of the Raleigh BMX team, stood together with their bikes infront of the team CF.

don't suppose anyone else has seen said pic ?  I know theres quite a few retrobmx'rs here so thought id ask..

I'm in the market for an old van project as ive just finished my T4.

[rmad]

I think they had a Transit:

[Bolf]

I think this is more likely a works rally support vehicle , or replica

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Jul 23, 2014 14:54:05 GMT rmad said:

I think they had a Transit:

Yeah thats a pic ive seen somewhere before ^^  Theres one with a chevy van too in a colour scheme that sort of mixes the transit and the bedford, And without the zig zag bit in the middle..

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Jul 23, 2014 15:16:34 GMT Bolf said:

I think this is more likely a works rally support vehicle , or replica

You may well be right,  In the listing someone says the same, But i looked and all i found were the usual silver  / green works vans from the Gerry marshall days.

Didnt realise they adopted those colours in later years?

[MrSpeedy]

Should go well with that big six in the front. Not to mention the sound

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Yeah holden 6,   Gotta admit that does lean more toward it being a vaux team car i guess,  They would have had access to order things like that, Whereas i cant imagine a bike team bothering.

The Australians have had good results tuning the HOLDEN 6 pots ,   Remember seeing a vid of a fj ?? doing a one wheel wheelie!!

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[Brian Damaged]

Almost certainly not a works motor. OHA registration number was issued by Warley in the West Mids, works GM barges were Bedfordshire registered (*VS, *XD, *NM etc) as were the GM Dealer Sport works rally cars. Interesting find though, the Holden 3.3 six-pot was fitted to CF vans in Australia/NZ, I'd imagine that's where it came from.

[dodgerover]

I don't think thats factory fit, the motor is 3 years older than the van (at least) the blue Holden sixes went from about 1980 through to 84. Probably came out of an earlier ambulance. It would have been the black holden 6 to be of the right era, unless they were still using up old stock in the UK that much later which I can't really imagine.

Top marks for the circlework video though - it goes a bit better than my last Holden 6 did in our commodore....