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Jan 10, 2024 19:10:47 GMT
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Catching up... Cabover is looking interesting, the tyres make a big difference. Look forward to seeing how it ends up.
Predictably, I love that Scammell Highwayman Showman's outfit!
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Oct 18, 2023 11:22:55 GMT
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There's a reason why a lot of farms still seem to have a 135 stashed somewhere (and why they make strong money too!). That looks a particularly nice one as well. Shame to see two very cool 2CVs off the fleet but it sounds like they've gone to where they'll be properly enjoyed, and the funds recycled back into the toy box, so a win all around.
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Twice the skins, four times the welding... I must admit the note on the side door raised a smile. Great though the matching rake is, it'll be nice to have something a bit different, if nothing else to highlight that the wagon is also a bit different.
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Sept 28, 2023 11:47:11 GMT
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I wasn't aware of the double skin variants, interesting. Can't imagine the welder is going to get too much of a break doing that one!
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Jul 26, 2023 11:38:40 GMT
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This is in Yate dude. Want to go next time Rich? Rysz. I’ve been meaning to go along for ages, So hells yea dude. Be good to catch up! Let me know and I'll pop up- I've not been to it since I sold the Harley. The comedy yellow one has been to America, that's close enough right?
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Jun 27, 2023 19:27:55 GMT
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I was reading the first post thinking "there's a 5th gear in there somewhere..." Later ones had an R380, but I suspect earlier ones might be LT77 (without bothering to look it up). I had a straight up ex PO splitter bus for a year and loved it, in a kind of so bad it's good type way. I know yours will be heavier but even laden it was good for 60 on the flat, hills not it's strong point admittedly, and would cruise at 70+ empty, so I reckon there's more to get out of yours. Would also do 40mpg everywhere, regardless of whether you were driving Miss Daisy or the more usual go pedal nailed to floor approach, empty or loaded. I tried to find another recently but they're either mad expensive or spectacularly rotten, sometimes both. Under the grime this one looks pretty decent and seems to be scrubbing up nicely
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May 18, 2023 11:33:17 GMT
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You have a way of narrating chaos and disaster that could make a nuclear apocalypse amusing- I feel guilty for laughing at your misfortune, but I still do...
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The British are the absolute worst though. I have a fairly strong hatred for BS threads and their stupid sizing system. Don't forget BA threads : start with M6 although list it in imperial sizes, change the angle to 47.5° for some reason, then produce the rest of the series using a geometric progression for the size and pitch that lead to truly bizarre numbers in whatever system you measure it and finally label everything in numbers. It's like they thought it up after a liquid lunch, with the intention of including the worst of every other thread they had ever seen. And then you get model engineering BA, which are standard BA threads (in as much as there is such a thing) but the hex head size is one size smaller than the "standard" for the thread!
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You do have a way with words Robert. Hope you're on the mend...
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Feb 28, 2023 19:35:24 GMT
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Bet that's fun to reverse. Looks great though. I reckon you need a tyre fitter's van next...
My favourite's still the yellow one mind. I need to stop looking at this thread, I need another hobby like a hole in the head!
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The Ute's cool, but it's not going to simultaneously bemuse, amuse and irritate pretty much every car scene group out there in the way the Ital will. There's going to be nothing quite like it. Look at it this way, in 30 years time when a group of middle aged (and a bit) car guys are talking about cars from "back in the day" on whatever the equivalent of Facebook is then, the Holden won't be the one that gets remembered... But if you want a car to actually drive the Holden will be an awful lot less effort for something that's probably just as good as the Ital will be
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Blimey, a digger with tread on the tyres!
Trouble with stuff like that is it usually only gets parked up when something goes "boing". However, if anyone can MacGyver it back to life it's Robert... Gotta be worth a look, would be extremely handy.
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Jan 10, 2023 12:33:00 GMT
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Well that one is Black....but the image is picking up the green of the vegetation. Here is an even earlier version with a different 9F Ahh, the comment was going to be about the right livery Actually I rather like the green- but with the "Windcutters" it's got to be a black 'un. 92212 must be soon after they'd first arrived with you I guess?
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Here is a visiting one in action. Very nice. Not making any comments about livery
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Happy New Year Phil! Please do keep the updates coming.
Must try and make it up this year... I think I said that last year too.
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Great stuff! Did the brake van get a run out too?
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Nov 30, 2022 12:46:02 GMT
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There was group living in the edge of the woods just up the hill from me when I was in my late teens. Got on well with one couple in particular who had a late 2a Land Rover very similar to mine, they lived in a caravan as did several others but there were 60's/ 70s and earlier busses, lorries and vans/ ambulances up there too. There's a chap we catch up with at the steam rallies with a fantastic Austin K9 & vintage caravan outfit that's been his home for I think decades now (certainly the lorry). I've spent far too many hours on Dave's Traveller Homes website looking at the various vehicles and wishing I had the balls to do something like that (although the partying and associated antisocial behaviour isn't my bag, there's a certain appeal to the off grid life and of my home truly being mine)... too accustomed to my creature comforts now!
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Nov 16, 2022 12:15:27 GMT
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Had a quick nose over the weekend- great to see it. Didn't spot Harris! Hopefully it changed a few preconceptions and made people think twice- I'm sure it did!
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Oct 29, 2022 15:50:38 GMT
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What a brilliant bit of kit. Love the stories that go with it. Looking forward to this one! Getting quite a gathering of quirky/ love for the unloved commercial projects on here now
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Oct 21, 2022 11:02:18 GMT
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Don't ruin this one Miles, that's mega cool.
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