1956 Red Goddess - No socks for this birthday!

But doesn't it do everything very, very slowly?

True, very true.

Anybody want their own transporter or shorten the chassis for an awesome cross country vehicle?

In that case Sir, may I offer you some options

Is that... bus.. humping another bus?? Cover your eyes, children!

This one used to live on Brighton sea front. It would find itself a little home somewhere, but inevitably get moved on to another spot half a mile away. I have to say I always loved seeing it. It had a lot of character. It was one of a bunch of odd vehicles of a similar ilk that used to be regular fixtures along the seafront and they were all pretty cool things that opened up to reveal really sumptuous interiors designed and build for one purpose only... enjoying life as much as possible. They all used to comprise a really nice little community down here. They'd throw open the sides of their trucks, haulage vehicles, portakabins-on-chassis contraptions and all cook their food together outside. At night time the trucks would be lit up with fairy lights and they'd all pull out bean bags and armchairs and sit around chatting.


It was really nice. Idyllic.

One of them was an old 1040's charabanc that had an entire side that lifted up on roof hinges, with fold out walls to make the side into an enclosed awning, and they had a set of long shallow steps that lead up frm outside, into the interior, and then from the interior up into a second level bedroom they'd built on the back. It was ace.


Naturally the good people of Hove were disgusted and no doubt demanded the council do something about it, because they all disappeared a few years back.

If you want to spend £30k on a shiny, restored VW camper,you can drive up and down the seafront all day long in a convoy that blocks the trafficwhile you wave out of the window and let everyone know how smug and satisfied you are in life. But an old Bedford, decked out like a Moroccan bazaar, with some peace loving crusties hanging out and being very pleasant and considerate... no we can't have that. Move them on!

The chaps from Bad obsession Motorsports (project binkey) are now building a car transporter-camper for binkey.

It’s a Ford Cargo, and they look like they’re going to be using every one of the available 7499kg. “Quicker” isn’t going to be a word they’ll be using relative to anything else with wheels.

Have they not ever wondered why even the F2 stock car boys use a 7.5 tonne about half the size of that thing. By the time you have tools and all the other stuff needed for race days, you soon eat up all the available weight.