I also liked the Pilot (nee Sherpa!), e.

nee Morris J4 from 1960 !

Of course, I was forgetting about that, so its origins are even older!.

Still remember Richard Kiel shoehorned into a Sherpa inThe Spy Who Loved Me!.

The top section looks like it has a dining area with table and seating, quite nice if you are somewhere with a view, and the lift is pretty nifty. I agree it looks a bit unstable.

You must be seeing something I'm not, I can't see anything in there!. But the description just says 'sunroom' suggesting to me an empty space. While you could make the top deck into a dining room, you'd have to transport the table and chairs up in the lift, then back down again once you were ready to move, which I think might be tricky!. The windows look to be split in two horizontally, so presumably they fold in half to end up flat on the roof, which means you couldn't keep anything up there.

But it is still the height I can't get over, I mean no dimensions are given, but we can make a reasonable guess by looking carefully at the pics. I'd say the main part of the van is about 3.5 meters, with the sunroom being maybe another 2.5 meters on top of that!.

That 1.9 was indeed indestructible, even carrying all that weight around, no wonder it lasted so long in normal passenger cars! I'm a sucker for the v8 models, with that very late low compression version of the 3.5 and 4 speed auto. No wonder the ambulance service got rid of them, lovely to drive when the health board is paying the fuel bill LOL. A few of them ended up with a small private school in Perthshire, now that's bragging rights on the school run.

Another job in the dim and distant past was a car body repair shop which happened to specialise in fibreglass. So I did work on the odd ambulance, including V8 Pilot's and V6 Transit's (as well as a fun few days putting a new nose on a Reliant Rialto!).