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  1. Cheers for the offer but we've already got a Green Goddess!
  2. I'll have a chat with the other "stakeholder". I see the one photo in your advert for it from a while back - do you have anything more recent?
  3. It is hardly appropriate for this place so only one picture. This is the Super after the final finishing was done and the signwriter (Phil Anderson Signs: Highly recommended for all your skilled brush steering needs) had done his work. The sun came out for just long enough to take it for its first test run down the track.
  4. It's very tempting because I really like Mk3s but I would also need to get an HGV licence, wouldn't I? How not much would you be looking for it?
  5. I would love a Super Constructor but they really are really really really big.
  6. I'm a bit rusty on the regs so may be out of date but I thought Militant Mk3s weren't classed as historic vehicles so needed to be plated? We were hoping to avoid that. Would be interested if that is not the case, however.
  7. After finishing the last Sentinel we will probably play with that for a few years until we do another one so we need something else to do in the interim and as usual thoughts turn to something large and most likely British. Since the British military tended to have most of them then it is probably worth asking around here. So I'm looking for information about: 1. Some sort of restoration project. Current favourites are Explorer, Matador or Militant although something else about that size might be tempting. Definitely not a Pioneer though. Done one already, not keen on another. The thing is that we tend not to play with these things and get more fun out of the restoration process. Where we are now facility-wise we will take most stuff on so we would be looking for something closer to "dredged out the river" rather than roadworthy condition. This was the last MV we did here to give you an idea of the sort of thing we are looking for. In need of heavy restoration but mostly complete is close to the mark. Much always wants more but being near to central Scotland would be an advantage. 2. Anyone know anything about that yard in Auchtermuchty which contains or at least did contain a large number of interesting MVs but is now almost completely overgrown? I cannot for the life of me remember the chap's name but he came across as a decent sort and didn't throw me out when I turned up at his place on spec in about 2011/12. There were certainly some very tempting projects in there. 3. Anyone know the whereabouts of this Explorer here? This was it when we went to see it at Tighnabruaich in about 2006. Unfortunately at the time we were a bit green about these things and bottled out of buying it but I believe it was sold to some lad Dunfermline way. Another unconfirmed story said that the block had been frozen on it.
  8. Managed to get a pair in the end from Bygone Bedford Bits in Dorset so the Goddess is roadworthy again. Helpful and knowledgeable chap who got the stuff to me impressively quickly. Worth a phone call if you are looking for Bedfordy things. 01202 745117
  9. I'm looking for a pair of rear brake expanders from my Goddess. Anyone got any good ones lying around? They don't appear to be the most robustly designed things.
  10. Blimey, is that our one? Looks a bit different. 😄 Thanks for them, 13 years after my last post what's been happening? We ran the Pioneer for another couple of years or so and various odds and sods got finished. The side curtains and seat cushions arrived and we collected various planks and tools to make it look more complete but the truth is that we just could not get on with it in the road. One Sunday morning we took it to some event on at the Riverside Museum and I drew the short straw to drive it through Glasgow. It was not the most fun I have ever had because you get to think about nothing else but that sodding gearbox. Whereas I was happy to drive the steamers for hours on end or in rush hour traffic I was absolutely knackered after an hour in the Pioneer. Just no fun at all. It sort of put us off old Scammells so we started a project to build another Sentinel Super because at least they were nice to drive and we needed something else to do. About 18 months into that it dawned on us that the Pioneer had not even been started in more than a year which probably meant it was time for it to go. A not exactly brassic lad in Holland bought it. These were some photos of it before the old girl went. Funny, I kind of miss it looking through photos of it. I liked the way it looked and I loved that engine but just could not have any fun with that gearbox. I felt I got not bad at driving it but I was never going to find it easy. Ah well. As for the Super in 2016 we started with a lot less than we got with the Scammell, namely this. The remains of the engine... And a few weeks ago it looked like this So that is nearly done. Despite falling out with the Pioneer we could still be tempted by an Explorer or maybe a Mk2 Militant. Does anyone know what is happening with all those lorries sitting in that yard in Auchtermuchty?
  11. On the subject of polishing I see that some people seem to be in the same place as I was a couple of years ago. Maching polishing is bad because we got a lambswool mop with the kit that came with the 7" sander, gave it a go and destroyed the paint. That was 20 years ago and nothing has changed since. As with most things I think I was wrong. The best place to start is here: http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=66024 Read it, then read it again. More carefully this time. The world of polishing and paint correction has come a long way in the past few years and the options are a little bewildering. I ended up paying the chap who wrote that article to spend a day with us to give us a vague idea what to do and how to go about it. The results when you get it right are staggering. There is so much you can do to correct even quite grim imperfections with razor blades, wet flatting using abrasives that you didn't realise P numbers went that high and machine polishing with the right compound on the right mop for your particular paint. Somehow it is counterintuitive. A foam mop, bone dry with virtually no polish on it? Surely that will destroy the paint? If it is older style coach enamels you have used it is best to leave it for a while before you start polishing because it will give off its solvent for a long time. We waited over a year before we started polishing the Sentinel. However, when you set about it and see that run that had annoyed you for a year slowly vanish never to be heard of again the reults are very pleasing. The only thing which is annoying is just how much you need to pay for what looks like bits of foam.
  12. I'd forgotten all about the anti freeze in the brakes. They can all stay inside until the sun comes out again. :blush:
  13. Go on, I'm man enough and big enough to say when I don't know what I am up to. How do you drive big, heavy things like Pioneers and slightly smaller things like Green Goddesses in deep snow, compacted shiny snow and ice? I'm happy enough pootling around in Range Rovers and other dinky 4x4s but I haven't driven anything bigger than a Super Sentinel in the snow and that was far from pleasant. Is it best just to leave them inside?
  14. Only just seen this. I know they are more expensive than the cheapest rotating beacons but they are very low key, reliable, easy to fit and remove and they absorb very little power. Here is one mounted on the offside rear of our Pioneer. Hardly sticks out like a sore thumb.
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