HISTORY OF HOW I CAME TO OWN THE VAN:
THIS VAN "MISTER WHIPPY" VAN WAS PURCHASED BY MY UNCLE WINSTON C. SCOTT
SOMETIME AFTER 1971 FOR MY FATHER LUTHER B. SCOTT. 
THE ICE CREAM BUSINESS NAME WAS CHANGED FROM 
MISTER WHIPPY TO SCOTTY'S DARI BAR.
MY FATHER RAN THE VAN UP UNTIL ABOUT 1984
AROUND THIS TIME THE VAN WAS NO LONGER SEEN ON THE ROAD OR IN BUSINESS.
MY FATHER WAS NOT ABLE TO KEEP THE VAN UP DUE TO LACK OF PARTS,HIS AGE AND HEALTH
ALSO THE VAN NEEDED REPAIRS, AND PARTS WERE GETTING VERY HARD TO FIND, 
THE PARTS PERSON MY DAD HAD DEALT WITH HERE IN THE U.S HAD SOLD ALL HIS SPARE PARTS JUST BEFORE HIS SON AND HE HIMSELF DIED.
THEY WERE LOCATED SOMEWHERE IN DELAWARE.
COMPUTERS AND THE WEB WERE NOT READILY AVAILABLE TO MY FATHER SOME DUE TO HIS LACK OF SOME MODERN KNOWLEDGE AND THAT THEIR WERE NOT MANY COMPUTERS AVAILABLE AND PARTS AT THE TIME WERE MOSTLY LOCATED IN ENGLAND WHICH MY DAD DID NOT KNOW OR WAS UNAWARE OF OR HE HAD NO WAY TO CONTACT ENGLAND.
SO THE VAN WAS NO LONGER SEEN ON THE ROAD AND BASICALLY DISAPPEARED.
MY FATHER WAS THE TYPE YOU DIDN'T ASK MANY QUESTIONS 
AND HE DIDN'T OFFER MANY ANSWERS DUE TO HIS WAYS.
IN 1985 THE YEAR MY DAUGHTER WAS BORN,MY FATHER LUTHER SCOTT CAME TO ME AND OFFERED THE VAN AND BUSINESS TO ME.
I TURNED IT DOWN, AS I WAS TOLD THAT THE VAN NEEDED MAJOR REPAIRS PARTS WOULD BE HARD TO FIND AND THAT THE PARTS COULD NOT BE FOUND IN OUR COUNTRY VERY EASY, THE USA.
THEY DIDN'T MAKE THEM HERE. SO THE VAN WAS FORGOTTEN.... 

THEN IN 2001.
HOW I FOUND MY DADS ICE CREAM VAN.
I HAD WENT TO TAKE SOME PICTURES OF MY GRAND PARENTS OLD HOME AND PROPERTY CALLED THE SCOTT'S HOMESTEAD ON HARROWGATE ROAD
I HAD NEVER BEEN TO MY GRAND PARENTS HOUSE OR EVEN SEEN IT AS THEY HAD DIED WHEN I WAS ABOUT 3 YRS OLD.
THE HOUSE HAD BEEN ABANDONED FOR YEARS AND THE FAMILY HAD LET IT BECOME DILAPIDATED AND JUNKIE.
JUNK EVERY WHERE INCLUDING OLD TRUCKS AND EVERY THING MY DAD AND UNCLE COULD COLLECT FOR MANY YEARS.
I HAD ASKED MY UNCLE TO ALLOW ME TO GO TO MY GRANDPARENTS OLD HOMESTEAD SINCE HE OWNED IT AND MY FATHER HAD PASSED AWAY IN 1997
AND WHILE TAKING PICTURES OF THE OLD HOUSE I LOOKED THROUGH A WINDOW IN THE OLD BARN AS THE DOORS WERE LOCKED AND SAW SOMETHING INSIDE BUT I COULD ONLY MAKE OUT 2 HEAD LIGHTS AND SOME THING ORANGE. 
A GUY APPROACHED ME AND INFORMED ME OF WHO'S LAND IT WAS AND WHO HE WAS AND WE REALIZED WE WERE COUSINS AND I TOLD HIM I HAD PERMISSION TO TAKE THE PHOTOS AS I HAD ASKED MY UNCLE FOR PERMISSION OVER THE PHONE BEFORE THIS.
AT THIS TIME HE TOLD ME THAT MY UNCLE WAS IN BAD HEALTH AND TO GO SEE HIM AS HE HAS HAD A COUPLE STROKES AND DO IT BEFORE IT WAS TO LATE. 
I WENT TO SEE HIM (MY UNCLE) AND DURING OUR VISIT IN A CONVERSATION I ASKED MY UNCLE WHAT WAS IN THE BARN, MY UNCLE WINSTON SCOTT TOLD ME HE HAD THE VAN MY DAD RAN STORED IN THE OLD BARN UP AT MY GRAND PARENTS HOME.
RIGHT WHERE I HAD WENT TO TAKE PICTURES OF THE OLD HOUSE AND I NEVER EVEN KNEW IT WAS THERE FROM 1984-85 UNTIL THE DATE I WAS THERE IN 2001.
I ASKED MY UNCLE WHAT WAS THE PLANS FOR THE VAN?
HE TOLD ME THE VAN WAS GOING TO EITHER BE SOLD OR CRUSHED AS THE LAND WAS BEING SOLD AND EVERY THING WAS GOING TO BE BULLDOZED
HE SAID IT NEEDED A LOT OF REPAIRS DUE TO AGE, AND DAMAGE.
A LOT OF PARTS HAD BEEN STOLEN,REMOVED, MISPLACED AND JUST PLAIN THROWN AROUND THE PROPERTY.
I ASKED MY UNCLE HOW TO GET THE VAN??  HE SAID ILL SELL IT TO YOU.
I PAID HIM WHAT HE SAID HE WANTED FOR IT $2000.  
IN USA CASH AND THAT BEGAN THE LONG ROAD TO THE RE-STORING.
WE HAD IT TOWED TO MY MOMS HOME.
TOOK SOME PICTURES.
THE NAME SCOTTY'S DARI BAR WAS STILL ON IT AND YOU COULD STILL MAKE OUT THE ORIGINAL NAME MISTER WHIPPY.

THE BEGINNING OF A NEW BUSINESS.... 

THE NAME SCOTTY'S STILL EXISTS 
BUT IT IS NO LONGER MISTER WHIPPY OR SCOTTY'S DARI BAR.... 
THE NEW NAME IS: 
SCOTTY'S ICE CREAM AND SNACK BAR.
I SPENT OVER A YEAR TRACKING AND LOCATING PARTS ALL OVER ITALY,GERMANY,ENGLAND AND OTHER COUNTRIES.
SOME PARTS THAT HAD BEEN REMOVED WERE FOUND PIECE BY PIECE 
ON MY GRAND PARENTS LAND, IN BARNS AND IN OLD BUILDINGS ON THE PROPERTY 
AND EVEN IN JUNK OUTSIDE... AFTER THE VAN WAS FINISHED I GOT PERMISSION FROM THE NEW LAND OWNERS TO CONTINUE SEARCHING FOR ANY PARTS I COULD FIND AND THAT WENT ON FOR 2 YEARS PICKING THROUGH JUNK JUST FOR THE LITTLE PARTS I COULD FIND BEFORE THEY DESTROYED EVERY THING.
WE SEARCHED FOR PARTS WE WERE MISSING, PART NUMBERS AND INFORMATION ON THE VAN  FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD.
I MADE A LOT OF FRIENDS IN THE UK WHILE TRACKING PARTS
AND PROBABLY A FEW ENEMIES AS WELL FROM CONSTANTLY WRITING 
OR CALLING THEM FOR ANSWERS AND INFORMATION.
I THINK OF THOSE PEOPLE AND THE HELP THEY GAVE ME OVER AND OVER AND HAVE THANKED THEM AS OFTEN AS I HAVE WROTE THEM.
I COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN THE VANS ENGINE RUNNING,
THE BRAKES FIXED OR OTHER MECHANICAL PROBLEMS FIXED WITHOUT THE HELP OF MY BROTHER MARK SCOTT HE HAS BEEN A MECHANIC FOR WELL OVER 25 YEARS AND IS OUR MAJOR MECHANIC.
AND WITH OUT THE SUPPORT OF MY WIFE CHARLENE.
I THINK I ABOUT DROVE HER CRAZY AND I GUESS I STILL DO DRIVE HER CRAZY WITH ALL THE TIME I SPEND TRYING LOCATE INFORMATION ON THIS VAN.
A LOT OF INFORMATION AND PARTS CAME FROM JULES FREEMAN OF SOUTHERN SALES IN ENGLAND, GREAT GUY AND A GREAT FRIEND.
DAVID CUMMINS USA IN FLORIDA,WHITBY MORRISON IN ENGLAND AND MANY OTHER PEOPLE AND COMPANIES TO MANY TO MENTION.
THESE PEOPLE WORK WITH ICE CREAM VANS AND EQUIPMENT AND ARE GREAT PEOPLE,FRIENDS AND COMPANIES TO BUY FROM AND DEAL WITH. 
JULES WORKED WITH ME AND EVEN WENT BEYOND HIS JOB TO HELP ME, AND I'M JUST SOME PERSON ANOTHER WORLD AWAY BUT HE AND I DO NOT FEEL THAT WAY, WE ARE GREAT FRIENDS.
JULES IS  A GREAT FRIEND TO ME AND MY FAMILY AND JULES AND HIS FAMILY ARE ALSO GREAT JAZZ SINGERS,
THEY HAVE THERE OWN RECORDING STUDIO AND BAND.
HES BEEN A GREAT FRIEND, AND I FEEL HONORED TO KNOW HIM. 
HE E-MAILED ME A PICTURE OF HIS NEW GRAND BABY THE DAY SHE WAS BORN THAT WAS REALLY COOL THAT HE THOUGHT OF ME AND MY FAMILY. 
INFORMATION CAME FROM SUPER WHIPPY, WHITBY MORRISON,VAN RALLIES, IAN, STEVE, YOU NAME IT. 
AND FROM JUST ABOUT ANYONE YOU COULD IMAGINE OR THINK OF HAS FURNISHED INFORMATION.
PAINT WAS TOUGH TO MATCH BUT I DID IT AND IT WILL BE TOUCHED UP YEARLY TO KEEP LOOKING GOOD.
IT WAS REALLY THIS COLOR WHEN THEY BUILT ALL OF THEM!!
GRAPHICS I DREW WERE DONE ON MY HOME COMPUTER, I HAD A LOCAL SIGN COMPANY CALLED EXPRESS SIGNS RUN THEM IN VINYL FOR ME A LITTLE HIGH PRICED BUT THEY DID A GOOD JOB.
GETTING THE GRAPHICS ON THE VAN AND NAMES TRADE MARKED IS A LONG PROCESS BUT ALL THE NAMES AND GRAPHICS ARE NOW TRADE MARKED.
PARTS WERE THE HARDEST OF ALL FOR ME, PARTS THAT COULD NOT BE REPLACED HAD TO BE REPAIRED BY ME OR BY MY BROTHER MARK.
THE VAN HAS BEEN RESTORED TO THE ORIGINAL.
ELECTRICAL IS STILL WORKING THE SAME WAY IT WAS DESIGNED,
WITH EXCEPTION TO A FEW ADDED FUSES AND GROUNDS.
A FEW NEW GRAPHICS WERE ADDED ALONG WITH A ROOF AIR CONDITIONER.
WE FINALLY FOUND THE OWNERS MANUAL AND WIRING DIAGRAMS OF THE VAN, AFTER ALL THE WORK WAS FINISHED.
BOY WE COULD HAVE USED IT IN THE START.
THE BOOK AND PAPERS WERE IN ROUGH SHAPE FROM WATER AND AGE,MY BROTHER MARK SENT OFF THE BOOK AND BLUE PRINTS AND HAD THEM REPAIRED AT KINKO'S.
NOW I KNOW A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE VAN THAN IN THE BEGINNING.
I'M ALWAYS OPEN FOR NEW INFORMATION AS THERE'S STILL MORE TO LEARN.
SOME THING I LEARNED.. PEOPLE IN ENGLAND/EUROPE MISTAKE THIS VAN FOR THE BEFORD CA OR CF WHICH IS NOT THE SAME.
THE VAN HAS COST ME A GREAT DEAL, MONEY WISE, EMOTIONALLY AND IT TOOK A TOLL ON MY HEALTH.
MY FATHER DIED IN 1997 AND WE HAD NOT BEEN ON GOOD SPEAKING TERMS,AND HE DID NOT LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO GET TO SEE THE VAN RESTORED OR BACK IN BUSINESS AS HE PASSED AWAY BEFORE I FOUND AND RESTORED THE VAN... 
I WISH NOW THAT I WOULD HAVE EXCEPTED THE VAN IN 1985 WHEN IT WAS OFFERED TO ME AND WHILE MY DAD WAS STILL ALIVE.
THE YEARS MY FATHER RAN THE VAN ARE NOT REMEMBERED VERY WELL BY ME, 
MOSTLY DUE TO MY AGE AS I WAS YOUNG, PROBABLY NO MORE THAN 9 TO 11.
SOME THINGS I'M STARTING TO REMEMBER MORE AS TIME GOES BY.
NOW AS I DRIVE AND RUN THE ICE CREAM VAN  WITH MY WIFE CHARLENE I RUN INTO PEOPLE AND GET TO SEE THE FACES THAT MY DAD HAD ONCE SOLD ICE CREAM TO WHEN THEY WERE YOUNG. 
NOW I SELL ICE CREAM TO THEM AND THEIR CHILDREN.
I'M TOLD MANY STORIES OF MY DAD AND HIS VAN.
NOW THEIR WILL BE NEW STORIES OF ME, MY WIFE AND OUR VAN.
I'M ALWAYS TOLD THEIR GLAD TO SEE THE VAN AND BUSINESS BACK.
MY VAN IS RESTORED AND IS FULLY OPERATIONAL.
NOW WE SELL SOFT SERVE CONES,SUNDAES, AND FROZEN NOVELTY PACKAGED ICE CREAM, LIKE SPONGE BOB,SPIDER MAN, FIRE CRACKER, SNOW CONES, AND MORE.
WE USED THE SAME SOFT SERVE MIX AND THE SAME TOPPINGS,CONE,CUPS,NAPKINS AND ALL THAT MY DAD DID.
THE VAN IS SIMILAR TO ENGLAND'S BEDFORD CA, 
THEIR ARE SOME DIFFERENCES, SOME ARE NOTICEABLE IN PICTURES.
OURS IS THE FORD TRANSIT VERSION,  THE USA ... MISTER WHIPPY.
THIS IS ME,MY WIFE'S AND MY DADS STORY, THE STORY OF SCOTTY'S ICE CREAM BEGINNING TO END.
I HOPE YOU ENJOYED AND LEARNED A LITTLE.
THANKS FOR READING AND STOPPING BY.
S.W.SCOTT (SCOTTY)

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