[martinsadie]

Fiat Panda 800cc 

[Andy@w.c.s]

bedford H A van
anyone old enough to rember them 

[elite mike]

bedford H A van
anyone old enough to rember them 

sadly yes 

[Ravensford]

Rover Metro

[Andy@w.c.s]

should be able to upload a picture of my fist van in a mo

[Andy@w.c.s]

here you go first van

[bad trippy]

morris marina.

SNAP!

[bad trippy]

mini van,  bless it

Not my first but ive used one of them too,at 6' 1" not good for the old back

[AuRavelling79]

Good thread!

When I first tried window cleaning in 1996 I used a 1987 Volvo 340 1.7 petrol saloon which was great but which would inexplicably "die" randomly every few days and which I never got sorted. It would always start again after ten minutes or so but it would be awkward if you were in town on a roundabout etc! The tank was drained, the fuel filters cleaned, carb checked, pump checked but it never played up when you were working on it. That lasted two weeks and so:-

First window cleaning car was a 2.3 petrol Volvo 240 Estate "D" reg (1986) when I started in 1996. It had electrically heated seats (well, only the driver's one worked), a manual choke and I managed to eke 28 mpg out of it.

Next was a Honda 2.2 Automatic Accord "J" reg (1991) with aircon which I bought in 2001 and which was the first car I did WFP out of in 2005 with a 175L tank and a couple of 25L barrels. It was rubbish on fuel and 22 mpg was about it.

It got written off by a French lorry driver in 2006 and I put the £500 payout (LOL) down on my (then new) present Fiat Doblo 1.3 diesel (45 mpg) which is on lease 'til October 2010.

[clean]

I learned to drive in a Reliant 3 wheeler so having passed my motorcycle test and so was able to drive it on my full motorcycle license,
there were no actual roof bars to carry ladders so i made some from blocks off wood bolted straight through the roof 

[s.w.c]

vauxhall cav horrible pale blue, and a horrible rusty roof rack.

[d s windowcleaning]

a ford cortina was my first car i used for window cleaning then a princess and kind of went away from w/c then , ive re started around 12 years ago using a astra estate .

[Ian W]

Toyota Previa. Didn't have a roof rack, so I stuck the borrowed ladders inside and poked them through the sunroof...    Then had a Fiesta van. Now I use a Berlingo car.

[Ian W]

My very first car was a marina.  They were basically an updated morris minor. I thought it was  a pretty good runaround (despite top gear's views), but doesn't compare to a good car today.

[weetot]

Morris Marina van. What a crock.

I Spent more time fixing the cv joints than cleaning windows.

[sparklebright]

When I first set up I used my company car which conveniently had roof bars (cheeky me)

But when I left I bought a Citroen AX 2 door, did me well til I went WFP