Friday Feeling…..Again
Vansdirect At a Loose End
- Come On City!
Usually on a Friday, the Vansdirect staff all turn into budding pundits in a bid to predict the Cardiff City result. However, this week is international week - no Championship football - no Bluebirds - no touchline rant from Jones about the quality of the final pass. What are we to do?
Regular visitors to the site will know that we love all things vans. We also love Fridays. So, once again, Vansdirect look to use the word van to its full advantage - but not in a game of scrabble - there may be no Bluebirds game, but we’ll find something other than scrabble.
Mentioning the Bluebirds…the home shirt will be available for sale in all club shops 9th October from 09:00!!!
Regular Vans with Unusual Names
We all know the Transit, the Sprinter and the Trafic, but what about the names that time forgot…..or the names that time should forget. Here are some of the more questionable van names:
- Dodge Ram Van - why name a van after a male sheep? Or the action that Raiders pinched the van for in the first place? Surely this is again typical American macho-ism gone mad! Originally put into production in 1971, the Ram Van ceased to be in 2003 when replaced by the Dodge Sprinter.
- Dodge come to the rescue again with the Sportsman and the Trademan - enough said!
- Ford Aerostar - not surprising, another American van. It was as aero-dynamic as a dead hippo and had all the star quality of a X-Factor drop out!
- The Kia Bongo hasn’t really hit the high notes of success in the European van market but remains a firm favourite with the Asian van market. It’s worth noting that on the 3rd generation, they dropped “Frontier” from the full name - because that was just silly!
- The American market just loves silly van names. What better than the joint venture between Ford and Nissan….the Mercury Villager. No matter how long we look at this van, none of us in the Vansdirect office can figure out why such a name!
- Citroen name their van after a Disney fish - the Nemo!
Um Bongo, Um Bongo, they drink it in the Congo!
People in a Van
How about people. Not that long ago we brought you a brief biog about the legend Dick Van Dyke, but who else has a van in their name:
- A hit on the dance floor is Armand Van Helden - a DJ of dance / trance music who’s music is another excuse to put a scantily clad girl on MTV - not that the men in the Vansdirect office seem to complain too loudly!
- Tim Van Eyken is also a musician, but this time in the traditional sense. Picking up the 1998 BBC Young Folk Award, apparently his career has gone from strength to strength - not that we know because no one at Vansdirect seems to listen to folk music!
- The most famous van has surely got to be Vincent Van Gogh! Born in 1853 / Died 1890 - perhaps the original live fast die young, Van Gogh is one of the most celebrated artists of all time!
- Perhaps a lesser known man is Andrew Van Buren….but this may be no bad thing. If you are curious, he’s a magician who claims to be “Europe’s #1 Touring Illusion Show”!
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Van the Man Morrison
Music and vans seem to go together like vans and wheels. How could we possibly overlook another legend…. Van Morrison. His official website suggests that he is a “Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, author, poet and multi-instrumentalist, who is widely considered one of the most important living artist of our time.” A bit like Vansdirect really - we’ll let you make the comparison.
Van Gogh - The Most Famous Van.....Ever!
