WhoDat wrote:
Your friend is wrong, Clubbie vans were produced with the Magic wand gear change in the early 70's.
I am told that a consignment was produced as mail delivery vans for the PMG at the time and these were manufactured to the lowest quality available at the time.
I own one and I believe Poeee's van is the same, so that's at least 3 of them still on the road.
My roundie van, a 1970, has a magic wand, but that isn't anything out of the ordanairy. Vans got all the low end stuff, including one sun visor!
The wierd thing is that I had an ex PMG 1970 Mini K Sedan, which had a magic wand! It was built for the PMG, but was sold privatly brand new (must of made too many). It had the van interior, which was the single centre speedo binnacle (the early type without the 2 guages on the side), floor dip switch (not sure if it had moved to the indicator stalk by then), real simple door cards.
To answer the original question. It is a clubman, the vans did come out with magic wands.
The post office, qantas, and electricity county councils all got clubbie vans with a magic wand gearshift. But this is a different gearbox to the real 850 gearbox. it is simply a remote change box, but instead of having the long remote extension housing bolted to the bottm of the diff casing, it has a shorter housing to take a magic wand. The 850 gearbox has the short gearchange housing cast into the diff casing.
