Colin, I tend to agree with you as regards the ‘wobbly’ look when you look down the side especially the larger Eriba like my Troll. However, a point to consider! I had a mishap last summer and put a 3 foot dent along the side which I called a hundred mile dent. i.e. the wife didn’t stop nagging me about it for at least a hundred miles. But, although it cost a pretty penny, it was fixed by a local vehicle body repair shop and now you can’t tell it has had some damage.
A member on here had a mishap on his Troll but it had the ‘dimpled’ effect and he was told it couldn’t be repaired like mine had been.
Maybe, this is something to bear in mind when a choice is made. Just a thought!

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A lot of the visual wobbles on a silver van are reflections of the surrounding area. I have had dimples, white flat and silver flat. On a sunny day my 2015 Familia silver van can sometimes give the illusion that it has been plannished with a lump hammer. If your selling your silver van the tip is to take a picture on a cloudy day, unlike the one you have show on ebay....

This discussion could go on forever as it depends on your personal choice..................................

My ten penny worth is to start by saying that the vans look excellent in both silver or dimpled.

When we were ordering our Troll in 2015 we had to decide between them and after a short discussion we agreed that we thought the 540 Troll looked best in the silver GT format and we are really happy that we did. When it is polished up and the sun is shining we think that no caravan around matches it for stunning looks. Perhaps we are fortunate and ours doesn't appear to show the panel distortions that show in Randa's photo. Perhaps PopTop has a point about reflections too

I may have said before that it takes me back to my posing youth as a mod with a bright and shiny, very chromed up Lambretta TV175. Kath says once a poser always a poser.................

So I am clearly on the silver GT side of the "discussion".............................

Mike T

This is interesting Randa. We decided not to buy a silver van as it was so buckled we thought it must have been in an accident! But no more buckled that the one in the picture.

I don't ever recall seeing any distortions on my 540GT, even in hot weather when it is supposedly worse. Maybe I'm just lucky, or poor sighted...

We have just a ordered a new silver 540GT you pays your money and takes your chance dimpled, white on silver, silver on white red and white, blue and white end of the day we are all in Eriba's. And that we all have different tastes I don't think there is right or wrong whichever you choose just enjoy Morphy!

TV 175 that brings back memories I can remember buying my first Lambretta Li 150 for £50!

Hi Alan

We are going back a long time but I paid £20 for my TV 175 Series 2 in 1967. It was love at first sight and really fast off the mark.

I had a mate who was a scooter freak who had a bored out SX225, some kind of special carb and an Ancellotti (?) racing exhaust that flew along. Together we converted my TV with series 3 body work and re-sprayed it virtually every other month. My fave was metallic Maroon & gold. Boy did it sparkle in the Cumbrian sunshine in Bowness.

Memories of an old git..............

MikeT

I remember the mods in Southport sparking their exhausts on the tarmac during frightning cornering.

Steve

Having run '01 and '05 540's I don't ever remember distortions etc. Maybe they weren't there on those vans, or maybe the paint jobs of the time disguised them well.

As soon as I started working in 1970 I bought myself a SX225 my pride and joy 😁. I was only on £17 a week it took ages to pay for it