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tootsie
Joined: July 27th, 2009, 6:35 pm
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Location: Yeovil, Somerset
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 Villevans I just found this on't net and wondered if any of you had seen them before. I don't know if I fancy the idea or not, might be usefull if you cannot get the body bits you need. http://www.villevans.co.uk..  ....Tony
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| August 27th, 2009, 3:27 pm |
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Russell
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Joined: November 29th, 2008, 10:05 pm
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Location: West Sussex, U.K.
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Re: Villevans I've seen them, and from what I've heard, they are a bit of a bitch to put together. For the money you'd need to build a good shell up and fit a Villevans kit, I reckon you could buy a nice original citroen van instead.
Nothing wrong with them per se, but if they were much cheaper than a normal van, or normal vans were rare, then I could see the point a bit more.
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samfieldhouse
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Joined: February 11th, 2009, 12:32 am
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Location: Chichester, West Sussex
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Re: Villevans The main advantage I see is that the shell won't rust. The biggest disadvantage is the wastage of bits of good car you have to chop off to make one. If I had a really ropey 80s car where the back end was falling off, but the wind screen surround was mint, and I wanted a new rust proof rear end... yeah why not. But to cut up a good car when you could put the money into restoring an actual AZU seems a waste. Each to their own I guess. Having said that, if I were building a kit car from scratch using scrap parts, then these kits do look good 
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| September 2nd, 2009, 12:06 am |
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samfieldhouse
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Re: Villevans Sorry to drag this up from the depths but... http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270471898488&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_500wt_1109Is this a Villevan? On http://www.villevans.co.uk its quoted that [Ville Vans] reproduces the style and charm of the Citroen AZU 250 and the eBay one is clearly longer than that, looking more like an AK350? So has there been more than one company building GRP van replicas?
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toomany2cvs
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Joined: December 26th, 2008, 9:40 pm
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Location: Surrounded by 2cvs...
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Re: Villevans samfieldhouse wrote: So has there been more than one company building GRP van replicas? Yup. IIRC, Manx started it all off, then went under and became Rico (and changed ownership a few times), now Ville. Probably others. I think Manx and Rico are the same set of tupperware, Ville is different. But...? <shrug>
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Roy Eastwood
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Re: Villevans No, that one is 2cv Van Company issue, could be when Mr Hanna of SLC chassis fame still had a hand in or when the 'dangerous brothers' continued later by themselves in York.
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| October 19th, 2009, 11:15 am |
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samfieldhouse
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Re: Villevans Roy Eastwood wrote: No, that one is 2cv Van Company issue, could be when Mr Hanna of SLC chassis fame still had a hand in or when the 'dangerous brothers' continued later by themselves in York. ken wrote: if it's got blue paint in places, it's probably the last one which I was involved with putting together, back in 1996. Lost about a grand on materials which I'd paid for, when I walked away from that little enterprise... [/i]) What were they like in terms of quality? I'm guessing if Ken was involved the build quality was good.
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