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Van Of The Day: February 21, 2010; Majorette '93 Ford Transit MK3
Topic Started: Feb 21 2010, 02:11 AM (538 Views)
NoirGuru
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Today's van of the day is Majorette's 1992 Ford Transit MK3.

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The Ford Transit is a range of panel vans, minibuses, and pickup trucks, produced by the Ford Motor Company in Europe (including Turkey).

The Transit has been the best-selling light commercial vehicle in Europe for 40 years, and in some countries the term "Transit" has passed into common usage as a generic term applying to any light commercial van in the Transit's size bracket.

Over 5,000,000 Transits have been produced since 1965 across three basic platforms with several "facelift" versions of each.


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Here's another one of my childhood favorites. This one with the working metal sliding door has always appealed to my chubby fingers. A high ride height and suspension made for those journeys across the coffee table nice and smooth. This cast once sported a school bus livery, which has since been removed due to wear. I still remember making sliding door sounds.

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UK "Mark 3" and "Mark 4" after facelift; Germany "Fourth generation"

Ford Transit 1986-1994

What proved to be the second generation Transit platform appeared in January 1986 and was notable for its all-new bodyshell which was of "one-box" design (i.e. the windscreen and bonnet are at the same angle), and the front suspension was changed to a fully independent configuration on SWB versions. The engine range was carried over largely unchanged from the last of the 1978-85 generation models, although in 1989 the high performance 3.0 V6 petrol was replaced by the Cologne 2.9 EFI V6. A subtle facelift in 1992 saw the fully independent front suspension adopted across the range, whilst a redesigned floorpan allowed the use of single, rather than paired, rear wheels on the LWB derivative, further increasing payload — these models are identifiable by the slightly more rounded front headlamps.


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Edited by NoirGuru, Feb 22 2010, 01:25 AM.
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Swifty
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The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
Nice model, and one I lack in my own collection. :thumbup:
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james_autos
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Minivan
I'm sure I have one somewhere.

Majorette also made a tow-truck version.
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Sak
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Ezekiel 25:17
Never even SEEN this one. Hooray for metal sliding doors!
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ivantt
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New casting? Quick! Take it apart!
Gott sei dank, no orange or red glass.

<-------"I've got to get to work on time. I hope all the roads are clear."
Edited by ivantt, Feb 21 2010, 01:23 PM.
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JustDavid
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SUV
That is very nice...childhood survivors are the best.
I have a green version as well as the tow truck floating around here somewhere.
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