IT’S A GAS, GAS, GAS

British Gas. Radio Rentals. Royal Mail. British Telecom. The logos and livery of every corporation and institution you may care to name were slathered across Mk3 Escort vans through the 1980s. And of course the modding scene was all over them too, stretching into the 1990s; if you were there, you’ll remember every show and seafront cruise featuring a plethora of small-scale commercial vehicles swapped to RS Turbo spec. Today it’s an increasingly niche proposition, but for a generation or two of Ford fans this legacy endures with more than a little eagerness.

It’s a simple fact of life that for as long as vans have existed, people have wanted to customise them. Ever since it occurred to the first person who thought to paint their company’s name and phone