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Richard is right to my recollection of working with HM's Explorers -- chain end to the scotch -- eye to the hook on the chassis -- but the picture shows Pioneer with fixed lengh rope! Who knows?

I haven't touched it really since you came over, so don't panic, the piccies are very much how it is today, but the K9 is coming on nicely (just the wings and bonnet left to do -- ha ha) and is going to look grand hitched up to the back of the Scammell

Here it is in 2005 after a fair bit of fettling including replacing the clutch ...... ......then we took the body off ..... did the rouinds for another year ........... ......... then ripped the cab apart ...... .... did some repairs, remade the floor and made up a few panels .... ...... then kinda lost the plot really and bought a few other toys to play with -- BUT -- the engine is run at least every fortnight and we shunt it back and forward every now and then to move the oil about, so hopefully the standing about won't have done much harm We think it's been on the "too difficult" pile for long enough, so time to sharpen up the spanners and brave the cold I think ........

Hoping to get going with mine again in 2011. I've done the easy bit by taking it all to pieces, left it alone for nearly three years, so I bet I'll have no problem putting it back together (lucky I've got a photographic memory -- not) Found this picture on the web taken of the old girl several years ago, but was rebuilt before I bought it.

Thanks to Willyslancs, Munga8 and Richard for quick response -- I'll be in touch with some pictures in the next few weeks when I've made a plan of attack -- it's a bit like "where do I start" at the moment.

Just to let you know -- I 'm the mug who bought the Munga 8 on e bay! It's not a pretty sight and despite the guys enthusiasm for the marque it's long way a way from running on it's own steam and has quite extensive rot. I was hoping for a quick fix project, but fear this anything but unless someone has a lot of body parts in reasonable condition -- lots of information required please! I'll need a set of coils and an exhaust to get it running, and the screen frame and bonnet are beyond repair -- that's just for starters Other than that, the floor and seat base don't look beyond patching, but then we've only had a quick poke about as yet and could do with making a few freinds in Munga land

The plot thickens -- have a look at these pics taken in the fifties. The white paintwork is clearly deliberate and I'd like to know what the purpose of it was

OK -- two quotes -- same actor -- 2 different films -- same terrible German accent! To the actor -- Schnell, Schnell -- round ze back! From the actor standing in a swastica clad M3 halftrack -- Uunder ze hoofen shootzen!

I've still got these as seperates -- didn't even think about mixing them up! I nicked the next photos from somewhere -- might have even been here! The colour one shows the ambulance bodied "Commer cab" Ford, a rare truck even in its' day amongst the more common Bedfords, and the other of the "Commer cab" Ford LAAT with an RL kicked out of the Beverley museum at the time of its demise -- out of interest does anyone know what happened to it?

I'm in -- PM on the way

Anybody out there know a source for RL windscreen frames. The nearside one on ours has been savaged by metal beetles! -- nasty creepy crawly things with teeth like hacksaw blades!

Photgraphed at Dunkerswell at the air day in 2006 Does this really only go 120mph -- what a graceful aircraft!

Anybody know what happened to this one. Sold from Filiegh, North Devon about five years ago

A few more in service K9s for our cider drinker, lovely drop of stuff that been out my head on more than one occasion in my younger days on that stuff when we toured the west country with our group in the late 1960s Ooops! Did I say I drank the stuff? Couldn't admit to that -- I've been caught sniffing the vat on occasions, but the dead rats floating on the top always put me off -- someones been spying on me haven't they! Thanks Les -- great stuff, keep the K9 stuff coming! I love it. Took to the road with mine today -- the first time it's ventured out on the highway since 1980! -- It was 'orrible! "Shake, rattle and roll" to quote a well known song and despite a run of thirty miles, the tyres still have the profile of an egg and me eyeballs haven't settled even after sinking a bottle of Pinot to calm me down! Anybody know where there's a pile of 9.00 x 20's for sale?

Love the old pictures of vehicle in service Les -- got any more?

Hi Jeff -- just picked up on this one and only heard about the event this last weekend. I'm not sure that the all the local MVT guys are in the picture though and advise that you contact the Local Area Secretaries for a response. Being close to home and having Claud Capel as one of our members, I would think that it would certainly be something we'd like to support now and in the future. I can vouch for the bar, restaurant and pleasant surroundings! Brilliant! West Somerset Derek Bowman 202 Berrow Road Burnham-on-sea TA8 2JF Somerset Tel - 01278 782 361 derik@uwclub.net Wessex Richard (Dick) Fryer 10, Easthams Rd Crewkerne Somerset TA18 7AQ Tel - 01460 74250 Devon Barry Miller 1 Barton Cottage, Sutton, Cullompton, Devon, EX15 1NF Tel 01884 34533. E mail barrymiller@freeola.com.

There's another Leyland parked on the side of the road outside "Squeaky Orchard's" yard just north of St Austell -- I'm sure I've got a picture somewhere! I'll have a look and post it with a map reference

The Leyland you've seen belongs to Mr Ted Tucker trading as "Land Rover Man" whose business can be accessed from the A361 Glastonbury road just past Walford Cross on the A38. In its hayday, Mr Tucker used it for commercial recovery off the A38 (pre M5) trading as Hamilton Motors. The original crane was replaced by a twin boom Holmes and as far as I remember the hydraulic spade has been removed from the back as well. Although it doesn't look too bad from the M5, all that remains is hundreds of starving metal beetles holding hands. The cab is pretty well shot and beyond saving I'd say and it hasn't run in thirty years at least. It was unceremoniously pushed down the field a number of years ago to make way for loads of Landrovers. Unless you really need some axle bits, I wouldn't think it was worth any more than scrap. Knowing Mr Tucker -- it'll be gold plated scrap! so don't ask!

.....and there's more! The suspect fan! If you look carefully, you can see where one blade has been welded and others are cracked right through to the rivet nearest the centre. Also a nice picture gleaned off the web. It was anotated "4 Div A Troop Herford 1959" Anybody got anymore pictures of K9s in service?

Here's a start! The first piccie is the K9 when we bought it last year. Unbelievable condition for something 58 years old, but lots to do none the less. There's a before and after shot to show what we've been doing. The axles are just about complete now and the engine running -- well it was until the fan disintegrated and one of the blades took a short cut through the radiator in a bid for freedom!

I'm not sure I'd get away with tipping one over -- health and safety and all that -- but people seem much more fascinated with bent ones that need loads of work than a pristine example. In a former life, we used to pull in training aids, some in sound condition with virtually no miles and I used to think -- what a waste. There was much more time spent pondering on what it would take to put it right than the work in hand. 6 months of being bowled over and dragged out of the sand by happless reccy mechs and all we'd got left was a chassis with lots of raggy tinware hanging off it. 101 fans will be disappointed to know that the original test 101 ended up on Bordon Heath as a training aid complete with no mileage tyres with the knobbles still on. The engine and fuel tanks were gone -- other than that it was like brand new! -- Well for a little while! It's in that great MV scrapyard in heaven now. Anyway the search is on for a 50's period truck -- all donations gratefully received! I was going to stay here, but I think I'll wander on down to the bar now and get em in!

Now let's see -- Morris, Austin. Austin, Morris? Yes Morris wins every time -- you have to admit the snubby nose has made it better looking! Yep, I'm going to get one of those to bend. :cool2: Have a look at the K9 though, and I love to display authenticity -- but now I just can't do it! :cry: Forgot to ask in the last post -- does any one recognise the junk in the back of mine. The frame is man enough to support a Chieftain engine, but what's it for?