I think you will find that the Leyland DAF and the Sherpa shown in the picture are the same in basic profile - the series CV306 Sherpa shown is markedly different to the K2 version which yours is based on. Both have roof panels, rear doors and some floor pressings that owe there heritage to the J4 (circa 1958) but every other panel is different. During the early 80s the Sherpa was reborn as the Freight Rover and included the wide-bodied MT210 van (later Convoy); in true British van form like early Sherpa it was a low budget affair. But very cleverly executed by Freight Rover and Ogle design the horizontal panels - rust traps - of the CV306 were changed to vertical seams; these could be interchanged and used on the new wide-body Sherpa the MT210, some panels on the right of one forming the left panels on the other - Scania would have been proud of that degree of modularity. Some think that the plastic Lotus Esprit was the star of the "Spy who loved me" but it was the Sherpa: the integrity of the spot welds saved Roger Moore and Barbara Bach as they drove across the desert - not a spot of rust in sight. It is good to see that the poorest relation of the former Leyland group lasted longest and is now doing well under new ownership.

hello the rusting sherpa 1989 van if you look at it from the windscreen to back of the van its the same as the 1960s flat front morris van with the sliding back doors it used to have on and the engine under the inside of cab floor the sherpa just had a bonnet and normal opening drivers dor put on and vengine on the front to make it look different from its true identity