WHEN Peter Marriott was a young bloke in the 80s, he built a Jade Green windowless HT panel van that was a pretty neat thing in its day. “My panel van had killer paint on it – as good as anybody had back then,” he recalls. “My brother and I painted it and did all the panelwork ourselves.”
But while Pete’s HT looked great and had excellent trim, under the bonnet was a humble 202 six-cylinder, with gears shifted via a three-on-the-tree. As an apprentice electrician at the time, Peter didn’t have the funds to go any wilder, and he ended up selling the van in 1986, instead focusing his attention on drag racing.
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