Pics 2013 Van Nationals in Caboolture

[wendyh]

 Hi
Andrew Davis posted this link on face book for the pics of the vans that made it to the 38th Van Nationals...
106 vans turned up ...sadly no beddies    ...will show em in 2015 eh?    come on lads u got a date set now and plenty of time to get ur vans on the road!
enjoy
 https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.376213642494311.1073741826.100003170363927&type=3

[Bas / NZ]

That's unbelievable that no Bedfords were present, guess panel vans rule in Oz..

[Bedfordcrazy]

Hey Bas, mate i don't know what it is here in oz. Mate back in the 70s and 80s Qld and Vic were the bedford capitals. I dont know if it is laziness, cost or just time, we dont even have a dedicated Bedford club here in oz, all the van clubs are for panel vans. Maybe it is just a case of not having the custom builders here. I do know from experience that people just don't want to do custom modifications, they just want to bolt and unbolt panels. When i was doing mine it took up to 2 years of searching to stumble onto someone that liked a challenge. I know as fact that the hot rod builders like OZ RODs, just 10mins from me wanted to charge over $20,000-00 to drop in the V6, Gearbox and do the power steering, do they want to work or are they just being pricey so they don't have to say no. I dont know if Phil L. who owns a couple of Bedfords was at this years Nats, but even he is the president of one of the panel van clubs here in Qld, but he does'nt have a panel van.
bottom line is if i can EVER get my van finished ( lack of trades ) then my promise is to set up a Bedford Club.

George.

[Rogue Trooper]

Actually if I was in Aus I probably wouldn't bother doing up a van. Seeing how much you guys are tied down by regulations and rules and the hoops you have to go through I would say most of the people who would ever be interested in vehicle modification would just put it in the too hard basket.

[Bas / NZ]

Yep, Rogue is right I think, but come on a Tran -sit made it there, how bad is that.

[cfjeff]

gidday, guess you beddy fans will all have to just move over here to NZ and we'll help you build your beddys, then we can all show em and drive em together. Wow the mental picture that envokes is just fantastic. Meanwhile back in reality.......

[outriding]

humm,, van nationals and 99% of them are... station wagons? ... I know you call them panel vans but ... 

[taggraphx]

Great to see lots of street vans, personaly not into ornaments that roll of trailers, hope to be there in 2015, bedi shuold be finished by then