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General Category => Introduce Yourself => Topic started by: majak on October 16, 2009, 12:56:31 PM
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hiya guys!
have just registered on your great website, and not sure what to do or where to go ... there is sooo much here to look at and read!! great site ... thanks.
i own a bedford and i am in the process of turning her into an ice cream truck and just wanted to find out anything relevant ... wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the right direction ..... either here on your great site or anywhere in general! i am open to pretty much anything, looking for ideas, opinions, thoughts and just anything to do with bedford/ice cream!
thanks for having me here! hope i have posted all of this in the right place ....
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hello and welcome aboard
click on the forum section & do a surch for icecream van..
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hi again and thank you for your response .... i think i spent too much time lookin at this site ..... and didn't even think to do a search for it!! that is my one blonde moment for the day! hehe thanks again! will try to post some piccies of my bedford if that is ok! ???
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will try to post some piccies of my bedford if that is ok! ???
No thanks. We have enough pictures of Bedfords thanks. We are now looking for pictures of topless buxom redheads! ;D ;D
Of course it's ok!!!!! ;)
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gee guys ya had me worried there for a minute!!! :o hehe sorry i am fresh out of redheads ... i am blonde!! but will try to upload a piccie ..... :P
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oki ..... soooo where is the best place to put them .... the photos!?? and also wondering should i resize the photos ?... the ones i have are pretty big pics! is there a standard size that they should be ?
sorry to be a pain .... just don't want to put them in the wrong place! ::)
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Most of the guys have an album in the gallery under their usernames and put most of their photos there. I think the gallery function also automatically resizes them if they're too big but I could be wrong there. If it doesn't then it'll probably warn you that they're too big and won't let you upload till you scale them.
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if you go thru photo bucket it will automatically resize them when uploading to the buga site
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G'day
There was a bloke in Orange who owned 2 Bedford ice cream vans, a SWB and a LWB.
He went by the name of The Dead Rat Ice Cream Company.
The vans were "done up" to look festy, the flavours all had disgusting names eg puss instead of banana, and he put a plastic insect on each ice cream.
The parents were agahst, but the kids loved it and he did a roaring trade where ever he went.
He is gone now and no-one knows what happened to the vans.
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oki !! i have only uploaded one photo so far ..... tis a '78 CF SWB... i have a lot of work to do on the van ...... i am currently looking for a few parts for it. A fuel tank, brake booster, master cylinder, ignition barrel ... with a key! oh and an ice cream machine!!! ::) i uploaded the photo to the gallery ... and will get some more on there in time to come!
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photo needs to be a bit bigger ;D
great colour, you will never lose it!
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hehe no don't want to lose it .... i am planning to make lots of money out of it .... selling ice cream!! tis interesting what other people do with their ice cream trucks .... the guy in orange selling them with plastic insects in them!! hehehe :o i have uploaded a few more photos now ... some before and afters! i am slowly starting the interior fit out!
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So, I'm not being rude, but are you a midget ? I cant see how you could move around and work in the back unless you were small in stature or on your knees ;D
Warren
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;D ;D heya warren!! i should have explained ... sorry .... no i'm not a midget .... i have another roof to put on the van. i am going to cut that one off. but for the moment ( weather and where i have it in the carport ) i have kept the original roof on! i only bought this car in march this year ... and i have a lot of work to do on it still ... but i knew when i got it, that it would be a big job! but yeah i have the other roof, just haven't put it on yet!
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hey majak, my sister wants to convert a beddy to a coffee van, i meet a bloke in sydney last trip who wants to run a fleet of about 10 lwb beddy coffee vans and my sisters is going up there soon to meet up with the bloke and pick his brains!
just thought id throw that in!
cheers
ben
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Wow Ben!!
that sounds cool .... wonder if he might have a few great ideas he could share with her! mine is only a swb and i have just started fitting out the inside. he sounds like he has a big job to do too ... to set up ten of them!! my biggest problem ( surprise surprise hehe ) is money! but i am getting there slowly!! :'(
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yeh slow but surely.
in his van he has a little 4 cyl datsun motor powering the 15A generatior in the back for coffee machine and stuff.. far out!!
money is always an issue. i hope to be over that hurdle in the next couple of years.. (money tree)
ben
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ha!! good luck with that money tree .... :-\ when you find one ... plant a few around!! i bought a generator a month or so ago ... i still have a few mechanical issues to deal with .... and then of course i have to buy the ice cream machine!! and then just get it on the road... ggrrr more money!! hehe but it will be worth it in the end .... hehe i hope!! if all else fails ... i know where i could sell it now!! :D
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Love the colour majak. ;D
Would like to see it in the flesh.
It will sure catch a persons eye once finished.
Good luck with your ice cream business. ;)
Jan
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i was rummaging dont know if thats how to spell it but
i was rummaging around in one of my vans yesterday and i noticed a ignition barrel with key still in it.. and i pulled a good working standard master cylinder off a van recently, i have a fuel tank in a swb which should be the same as yours, all parts your looking for majak
ill pm you my contact details and we can have a yarn,
ben
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Hi Jan! :)
tis nice to know there is another female out there ... thanks for your comments on my colour! we don't seem to see many bedford ice cream vans anymore ... i am hoping to upload some more pictures soon!
glad you like it ...
thank you ;D
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Hmmmmmmmm. there´s a though,get the little ones with ice cream and the big ones with coffee,
I´m always amazed that so many people will pay $3 for really bad coffee,
Don´t get me wrong, iḿ an addict too, sometimes i pay $4.50 for a coco-loco short black, very good high ;D
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hehe now theres a thought!! i could call it an ice cream bar .... and sell alcohol too!!!! hehehe :o
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Hey Majak,
I saw a Pink SWB Bedford Ice cream van on the Deagon deviation heading towards Redcliffe about 2 weeks ago
Joe
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hey worzel this bloke kevin in Sydney actually sells really nice coffee out of his van, the machine is some wiz bang machine from the states that cost him like 12,000 or something like that.
i dont know anything about coffee, but ive been told by his customers the thumbs up:)
hey majak i still see a few icecream beddies floating around melbourne every so oftern:) maybe 3 or 4??
cheers
ben
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wow i think i need to get out more often!! ;D