Vans that sell shit and stuff....

[hiccup]

i'm surprised not more of you saw these fellas.
their 'warehouse' was based in wimbledon and omni audio had 4 or 5 vans operating in all parts of london...

I got stopped by them three times, once in London, once in a motorway service station car park somewhere, and once in Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth!

A mate actually bought some of the speakers. He still swears they are decent and he got a bargain. Bless.

 

[ringo]

I knew a Kiwi who joined those speaker van crews for a couple of weeks about 10 years ago. He got a chance to give them a proper listen, and surprise surprise, they were worth half what was being charged.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

They've "just done a job in the big hotel, and there's a lot left over", right? And when you say "which hotel?", they say "the big one there, you know, in the High Street".

I usually ask them if they'd like to try a length in my back passage.

Nah, not the lot in Brixton, anyway...they're more large rugs really....

 

[Funky_monks]

I got stopped by them three times, once in London, once in a motorway service station car park somewhere, and once in Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth!

Thats where I met em as it goes. Same as any fucker in pubs up and down the land.

I didnt want to buy a dog, either.

 

[moose]

when I lived in Moss Side, an ice cream van that was rumoured to sell more drugs than ice cream.

They've lost much of their business to the pizza delivery boys.

 

[Maggot]

I got stopped by them three times, once in London, once in a motorway service station car park somewhere, and once in Aberystwyth. Aberystwyth!

Service station car parks are notorious. I've had people try to sell me watches, trainers and other stuff there.

 

[Tank Girl]

when I lived in peterhead there were two ice cream vans per day, and as well as the usual stuff they sold milk, fags and other useful stuff. the video man and baker would come round once a week.

 

[Cid]

Right, on my estate we have two ice cream vans that come round on alternate days, a fishmonger that drives round, a guy that delivers expensive tea bags and biscuits and stuff that you buy stuff from if you catch him on his rounds. umm....I think that's it. No baker unfortunately. ]]

What do you ahve?

Rich bastard.

 

[Errol's son]

back in the late 90s and early 00s, any of you guys get approached by 'omni audio?'

2 guys in big white van, dodgey stuck on stickers, selling 'state of the art' speakers?

A friend of mine used to work for them.

He used to pull in about a grand a week cash!

e2a: I've been approached by them in Lausanne, Switzerland; Manchester, UK; Joburg, South Africa and in Hong Kong. They are a multinational firm!

My mate used to go to fresher weeks around the country relieving freshers of their newly obtained student loans!

 

[Wolveryeti]

Oxford has fuckloads of kebab vans. It's a mystery why they don't crop up in London - they'd make a killing!

 

[elliottwolf]

We have a Taco van! Beat that! Every Wednesday from about 7.30 til 9.30!

Best food around!

 

[pembrokestephen]

mostly what i get these days 2,
plus this one with a similar paint job, ambiwalans or something,
he takes people away too.

Ah, yeah, the bus to ambiwlans. Cos it's a bus, see.

*slightly off topic - reminds me of my slight perplexity when I first came down to Wales at how every bloody town with a railway through it (which isn't many towns, TBH) seemed to have a Gorsaf Station. They don't even write the Welsh in a different colour or anything... *

 

[pembrokestephen]

mostly what i get these days 2,
plus this one with a similar paint job, ambiwalans or something,
he takes people away too.

Ah, yeah, the bus to ambiwlans. Cos it's a bus, see.

*slightly off topic - reminds me of my slight perplexity when I first came down to Wales at how every bloody town with a railway through it (which isn't many towns, TBH) seemed to have a Gorsaf Station. They don't even write the Welsh in a different colour or anything... *

 

[sorearm]

Where my mate lives in Liverpool you can get cocaine from the ice cream man, but nothing so exotic here.

ahhh yes I remember them well growing up - the ice cream van you could buy fiver's worth of weed and then if you were adventurous ask for a 'happy cone' which had some smack in the bottom, lovely! they were going for years before the bizzies got them

also remember the 'lemo van' where you could get different lemo, the cream soda in a glass bottle - lush! (and you got 10p back on the empties, as others have said)

*reminisces*

 

[ice-is-forming]

Does anyone remember the 'Kent ice cream van wars' of the 80s, mr whippy thugs smashing in mr softys wind shield with a tyre lever??

ice cream vans set alight???


*reminisces too*

 

[gaijingirl]

The ice cream van is out our back windows in the park. But we get lots of (usually Irish) people (my mum would call them tinkers) knocking on the door selling rugs and furniture and stuff out the back of the van. Every now and then someone sets up a trestle table at the entrance to the estate and sells stuff on it - we've had pots and pans, furniture - all sorts!!

 

[keybored]

 

[1927]

we used to have a pop van too the "alpine man"

The Alpine man we had ran the kids next doors dog over and squashed the fecker dead. He gave the kid two free flagons (that's a word I haven't used in a long time and don't think I've ever typed it) and buggered off. we didn't see him again!

 

[1927]

Where my mate lives in Liverpool you can get cocaine from the ice cream man, but nothing so exotic here.

Sounds like this great film

 

[q_w_e_r_t_y]

Does anyone remember the 'Kent ice cream van wars' of the 80s, mr whippy thugs smashing in mr softys wind shield with a tyre lever??

ice cream vans set alight???


*reminisces too*

Got serious up here. Six people died in the Glasgow ice cream wars.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow_Ice_Cream_Wars