In the 2002 live-action “Scooby-Doo” movie, the Mystery Machine was portrayed with a 1972 Bedford CF Van. If you’re reading this from the U.S. and haven’t heard of the model, that makes a lot of sense. We didn’t get them here, and they’re mostly found in Australia. While that may seem like an odd call for an American-based franchise, it makes a lot of sense when you find out the film was shot in Australia.
The Bedford CF, though, is likely just a victim of circumstance due to the shooting location. Its design is a pretty drastic offshoot from the original Mystery Machine with the exception of the round headlights. Overall, in a live-action film that isn’t focused on the van, though, it makes sense not to stress much about a perfect lookalike. All that aside, this is the only time we can definitively say which van model the Mystery Machine is. Otherwise, it is, in itself, a mystery. It’s completely understood, though, why a quick glance at any of these vans in the real world would make you think you’re looking at the starting roots of a Mystery Machine clone.
