Iconic Only Fools & Horses three-wheeled yellow van up for sale at auction – it could be yours for £18,000

DEL Boy's three-wheeler yellowish van from Only Fools & Horses has gone connected merchantability for £18,000.

The Reliant Regal Supervan III with "Trotters Independent Trading Co" connected the broadside was utilized by the characters successful the archetypal 2 bid of the beloved BBC sitcom.

The 1972 van was 1 of six bought by the BBC for Only Fools & Horses.

Four decades aft being utilized for the archetypal 2 bid the 3 wheeled centrifugal is being sold with props from the amusement including a marketplace suitcase, fluffy dice and an inflatable doll.

The van, which has a apical velocity of 55mph and has done 97,000 miles, was acquired by the precocious BBC movie shaper John Mansfield aft it was nary longer needed for filming.

It has since passed into the hands of a backstage collector who is selling it astatine Classic Car Auctions, of Ashorne, Warks, connected September 28.

The van has precocious had tyres fitted and its brakes overhauled truthful it could beryllium utilized astatine foundation events.

The conveyance featured successful the celebrated 1982 occurrence "A Touch of Glass".

In it, Rodney drives the van into the countryside wherever he, Del and Grandad stumble upon the woman of a adjacent manor location whose car has breached down.

When Del gets into the stately location helium pretends to beryllium chandelier adept and offers to cleanable Lord Ridgemere's Louis VXI chandelier with disastrous but hilarous conequences.

When the priceless portion crashes to the level Del, Rodney and Grandad marque a speedy getaway successful the battered-looking yellowish van.

The auctioneers said it belonged successful the apical echelon of British TV vehicles.

A Classic Car Auctions spokesperson said: "The van was utilized for 2 bid which included the celebrated chandelier scene.

"The small van indispensable fertile alongside Inspector Morse's Jaguar Mk2 and Jim Bergerac's Triumph Roadster arsenic 1 of the astir readily recognised vehicles connected British television.

"In the TV bid the Reliant Regal was owned by Trotter's Independent Traders – aka Rodney & Del Boy Trotter.

"The grubby yellowish Reliant was successful effect a co-star with David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst.

"Serving arsenic the Trotters' main mode of transport, the van was utilized to store Trotters Independent Traders & Co banal and transport the household to respective destinations.

"Only Fools & Horses remains successful the hearts of truthful galore of america with the signifier philharmonic drafting grounds audiences to this time and owed to spell connected circuit nationwide precise soon."

Only Fools & Horses' archetypal bid was broadcast successful 1981.

The 1996 occurrence 'Time connected Our Hands' attracted a grounds 24.3million viewers.