New member from across the water in UK

Hi everyone,

My name is Justin and I currently own two Escort vans, amongst other cars. My Mk1 Escort van is a 1968 stock van with the original 12" wheels, 1300cc engine and starting handle. I also own a 1979 Escort Sundowner 2.0L. I bought this 10 years ago as my brother now lives in Queensland and he rang me up one day to tell me there was a Sundowner for sale. At first I didnt know what it was but after a small amount of research I decided to buy it.
It then spent the next 9 years in my brothers house untill a few months ago I finally imported the van over the UK. It requres a bit of work but isnt too bad.

Keep up the good work with the site!

Best regards
Justin H
N Wales . UK

hello and welcome so awesome to see another pommie here (even though my family moved to SA 20 years ago)
That is so cool you imported your van! you must post some piccies of it

Great to have you on here Justin, another van importer too! Bet the Sundowner turns some heads over there and has a few people scratching their heads.

Cheers and welcome.
Rob

Welcome to the forum Justin!

I hope you enjoy your time here. Plenty of friendly, helpful people on here, ready to help you with your questions.

Cheers,
Karl.

Epic_Dragon wrote:hello and welcome so awesome to see another pommie here (even though my family moved to SA 20 years ago)
That is so cool you imported your van! you must post some piccies of it

Hi and thanks for the welcome, so your from this little island too originally? Where about's did you originate from then? I'm based in N Wales about 10 miles from 'Sunny Rhyl'

I will post some more recent pictures of the van in the other section. The one picture I have posted already is in 2003, soon after I bought it. It doesn't look as good now thought i'm afraid. I should have imported it sooner but there we go. . .one of those things. Must admit there is some cracking looking vans on here with big engines.

I will post some pictures soon
Regards
Justin

Im from Middlewich, Cheshire. Just myself, sis and mum and dad here haha.

looking forward to new piccies

Welcome Justin
Great to see Aus vans going international
Hoping to be in the UK this year in the Macclesfield area .
Hope you enjoy your time on the forum they are a great bunch of people and will help with any advice you need during the rebuild .

I'm from Cardiff.Came here with my parents 1968 as a 6 year old.The rest of the rellies are still
in Wales or Scotland.

Yay, another esky owner nice sundowner. Are you going to stick a cossie in her??? that would be sweet. 300+ at the wheel

Here's a motor for you Justin its fitted to a mk1 in aus,

I'd like to see the Caddy next to it.