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COMMERCIAL SUCCESS

Vans. They’re sensible and functional things, aren’t they. People buy them because they need to haul stuff about –they’re rugged, dependable, practical and versatile. What they aren’t, though, is exciting. At least, not usually.

“I didn’t buy this Transit Connect with the intention of doing what I’ve done to it,” says Jo Lawrence, gazing at his extraordinary van with the dazed expression of a man desperate to reconcile how he got from that point to this.

He continues, “After all, it is still my daily-driver. I sleep in it, throw mountain bikes in the back, go to the tip, take

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