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A Vanguard Truck? Know anything about them? Direct me somewhere where I can learn something about them?

Thanks!

I seem to recall that's a manufacturer of stepvan bodies. Right? There's a company now that makes ladder racks and truck accessories. What are we looking for?

I found a truck, it has Vanguard on the grill the box is tubish in shape and the truck has a unibodi construction. It is horribly ugly, but I really like it. That leaves me with issues of rarity, parts, value, etc.

Like this?

http://users.skynet.be/imperia/image/photos/image021.jpg

Very similar. The grill seemed to have more of a wire type design. The one I am looking at has a visor which is neither here nor there. There was alot of snow around it, so when we go back and pick up our Snow Cruisers I hope to get a better look at it. Ski pants and boots!

I found a pic of the one I saw!

This is what I saw!

I never saw one of them before. British? Does the one you saw have right hand drive? That would be cool. Is it really small? Looks like it in the pic. More of a car-based pickup. Almost (dare I say it?) like a Crosley.

Yes they are British, I didn't get close enough to see if it was right or left had drive. I is really tiny, smaller in lenght then a 46 Chev PU. They were used by the RAF and are often called Utes for Utility.

Standard Vanguards Online

Standard Motor Club

Thanks I.B. for giving be a basis to start from!

Parts could be a problem, I believe it has a 4 cylinder single solex carb engine which was later used by Triumph. I have a 54 Triumph TR2(rhd) and I think it has a Vanguard motor which is incorrect for that car. My car was exported originally to Singapore, so who knows what was done to it over the years.
Joe

If I got it cheap enough it would be an interesting conversation piece none the less eh?

You'd just about be guaranteed to be the only kid on the block to have one. It looks like an old Nash that's been turned into a PU.

When I was a kid in the 50's there was a lot of these in Canada.The trucks were Vangards,the cars were Vouxall's.They were left drive here off coarse.I don't know the company name

It sure has a look of a Crosley pick up to me.
Neat mini ride!

At least some, maybe all, petrol powered Ferguson tractors (24's, 28's etc) used the same engines as Vanguard cars & utes.I think these engines were built by Standard.

PS - There were also 6 cyl versions. The 4's & 6's were both OHV

Hi Tempest!

I sure remember those cars and small trucks as a teenager. They were fairly popular around 1950 or so. Well, popular as much as British vehicles were in those days. At the bottom of this is a link to a picture of the front end of a car. Same as the little truck you saw. That would be kind of fun to latch on to if it's in half decent shape.
Cheers, George


Standard Vanguard
This stately saloon was a dignified, subtle motor car - apart from its brash "Cyclops" single central auxillary headlamp, which was dropped in a hasty facelift of the range in early 1952. It's easy to see the design lineage of the current Rover 75 in this car, which Rover's designers certainly studied when they were creating today's 75. With a six-cylinder, 2103cc engine, the original 75 produced, of course, 75 bhp, and a top speed of 85mph, more than fast enough for the bank managers and senior civil servants that favoured the utterly respectable, solid-citizen Rover brand. More flash were the Pininfarina-designed Coupe and Convertible. The 75 P4 also spawned another model, the economy-biased 60, which was fitted with the Land Rover's engine, and the subsequently updated P4 models took the range on into the early 60s. Though eventually known as Auntie Rovers, because your relative of that name often had one, the P4 was quite an advanced car when it was launched, gaining a reputation for being old-fashioned largely because of the cars' longevity, for they were meticulously well made.

Standard Vanguard (Phase I)
(1948-52)

Standard, a company dating back to 1903, bought out Triumph in 1945, and having produced a large and varied range pre-war, reduced its Standard-badged line-up to just one model, the Vanguard (Triumph was launching the smaller Mayflower, and a sportier, upmarket version of the Vanguard, the Renown). This car, launched in 1948, was a large, solid and somewhat stodgy vehicle - a contrast to the Triumph models - but it sold very well, with nearly 185,000 produced, largely down to Standard's reputation for reliability and indestructible build. Like many cars of the era, it had American influences in its styling, and was built on an old-fashioned separate chassis, albeit with independent front suspension. Its 2088cc engine produced 68 bhp, and it must have been a struggle to reach the quoted 78 mph top speed. Which was probably just as well. It was offered as a saloon or workmanlike estate car. The Vanguard was revised in 1952, and became larger and heavier, though the engine remained unchanged.

http://www.visitcoventry.co.uk/visitor/timeline/motor.swf

We are going to take another look at it when we go and pick up our 'new' snowmobiles (2x 1967 207 Snow Cruisers). The truck is at the same yard. I think it is an awfully neat looking thing in an ugly sort of way. Could be interesting as the body for a mud truck, or a yard peice. I dunno, I just know that I like it!

thank you all for your help!