Craig Cheetham
Well, if the ‘is it or isn’t it?’ Maestro pick-up isn’t enough light commercial action for one week, then you might need to go and lie down in a darkened room after looking at this one…
Our thanks to go to AROnline reader Mike Packwood for drawing it to our attention.
Maestro vans are rare enough these days, but to find one in such unbelievably tidy, original condition as this really is something else.
Having started life as a sweet and confectionery sales van, it appears to have survived without the rigours of the usual commercial vehicle use and is undoubtedly one of the best surviving examples left on the road, as reflected by the fact that bidding is already over £1,800 with over four days to go.
There are hundreds of low mileage cars of this era coming out of the woodwork at the moment, but commercial vehicles are a wholly different ballgame. With 23k on the clock, seats that look like they’ve never been sat in and virtually flaw-free bodywork, it would certainly be a challenge to find another. But what price beauty, eh?
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I’ve seen this before at KGF Classics. Think it was advertised for two or three grand.
http://www.kgfclassiccars.co.uk/details.php?cid=155
Clearly, times were so good in the 80s that people bought cars “just in case”??
Will
Truly incredible!!
A brilliant vehicle for some light commercial everyday use TODAY. It would be a great advert in itself.
I don’t remember those rear wheels being so far offset forward in the wheelarch. Something doesn’t look right there.
What I remember about the Maestro van was that, like the Marina van before it, but unlike the cars, there was a smell of fuel in the cabin.
Odd and off-putting. Couldn’t have done much for repeat sales.
Apart from that it was fine, if a little spartan by the competition’s standards.
Looks like a marina van fitted with a maestro front end. I dont remember them looking like this one.
Ooh! There’s a Fireball Orange MkI Triumph Speed Triple in the second photo from the top! 🙂
Sorry! The THIRD photo from the top!