robin craig

Malcolm,

I didn't phrase that very well, well I said the "pod" I meant the drivers warning display pod fitted external front left corner. I know the owner had a couple of repro ones done and wasnt sure which vehicle it was done to.

Malcolm, can you send me an email please?

Dear Ak-Muskeg, do you have a name mate?

There is one of these up the road at a nice collection if you ever want to visit or email their mechanic, not sure where in the US you are located.

Do you know the military vehicle registration number for it? Any more pictures? It could always possibly have gone to the Falklands campaign / war.

Pictures would be very good btw!

Malcolm,

Don't forget that your vehicles are somewhat of an amalgam of varieties. The Samson is actually a Belgian vehicle despite it's current pants scheme and wont have the electronic kit added most likely.

If you are any good at uploading the pdf files I sent you please post them n here for all others to see for now and forever, I am all for sharing the information just not a technical whizz kid to be able to do that. I am all for sharing and helping others, just nt able to do it, making a pdf is about the limit of my skills, I cant change the alarm on my digital watch!

Has the Striker been fitted with the pod as a dress up piece of kit or was it original? The answer is close at hand I just have to warm that part of my brain.

All the best

I found it and scanned it and emailed it to you Malcolm.

If anyone else wants these files please EMAIL me

There may be some nuggets in here Malcolm, especially the one about the rev limiter fuse

agreed

Malcolm I have some of the paperwork on this downstairs kindly provided to me by Sirhc and I will gladly copy it and send it to you, just do me a favour and use old school email and remind me as I can forget. 

Thank you both, just proves I don't know everything

Good day,

trying to identify a triangular cover plate with a part number 2910-99-815-9564 it has an ASC as LV9 but unsure what that means

I just watched this and there they are!

Thanks Darcy

Bob thanks for the reply,

I am asking for a friend, he thought they were Ferret and so did I but I have as yet to get to my parts book and find the numbers against the drawings.

The fact they are lop sided confused me

Have you tried contact the British Motoring Industry Heritage Trust and paying for a serial number search?

I did that a number of years ago and got a down to the day build history for mine.

That would tell you for who it was built.

Good day,

Simple problem, trying to work out what vehicle this pair of pads was meant for and possibly what value are they these days.

Thanks in advance

Lovely work on the vehicle. What is your rust preventer product and does it brush or spray on and what is your undercoat and how is that applied please

which variant of Ferret are you looking for. I have several available depending on which you need

Dear Mr Ammoman,  I am sure you have a name, I would use it if I knew it.

I echo what Chris (Sirhc) says, it is quite complete with extra bling like radios. You are in the UK so parts are far more plentiful than over here in the colonies. Trust me, we would rebuild what stuff you folks throw out, we cry often.

Paint makes a huge difference to looks, it it was all in primer it would look better.

Buy it now and get it under cover and start the process, what else would you spend your money on? Beer and smokes?

There wont be any more made. Good luck.

Dear Robert,

welcome along. Sadly over the past year or s traffic here has dropped off a bit and some have ventured to the dark side of Facebook.

The only trouble is that FB does not archive which this forum does.. There is a handy search function in the top right and by playing around with key words you will come up trumps.

I am of to bed so I am not gong searching for you but its all on here.

The Ferret fuel pump is an age old problem. Others have jury rigged around the existing pump etc. Pulling the whole pack out is less daunting than it sounds.

I'm above you in Ontario Canada. I have a spin on oil filter adapter you might like

Email me and I will send you my phone number

All the best

Robin

So, on other forums people have made some comments and questions and I think it is best to be a bit forward and explain a bit more.

People ask me how best to describe the CL70.

My stock in trade answer is to ask "do you know what a BV206 is?"

Once people say "yes" I tell them that the CL70 is a baby version in a proof of concept size for one person to drive.

Th CL70 uses a clever if not somewhat fragile system of cables to draw one side of the two units together while letting the other side out. This is done by using a bees nest on the steering shaft kind of like how early outboard engines were steered from a steering wheel.

The power is sent to all four tracks at the same time. Here are few more pictures, showing the front and rear cars, currently they are separated

Now that my accomplice Peter Duggan have brought the units back to the area where I live I have been able to pore all over them and get them dried out and cleaned up.

I have tons of pictures and more information that I will try to get uploaded over the next few days.

Being offered this original manual by Brian Asbury has been a godsend and I sincerely thank him for that.

there have been other happy events but more on that later.

The CL70 is made up of a simple aluminum tub both front and rear, mostly riveted construction. This sits on top of a hollow structural steel frame / chassis which is identical front and rear.

The front car has a steering wheel and instrument panel  and bench seat with battery, two fuel tanks, an engine compartment with a VW 36 hp engine and a custom gearbox made only for this vehicle by York Gear Company in Toronto, Canada.

Both the front and rear has two tracks each and has a differential. The frame / chassis is in all reality beyond economical repair under both halves. Happily I was able to secure an NOS frame as part of the deal. It is 85% good needing some minor repair.

Good day,

I thought I would share this project with you.

After loosing the possible purchase of another special vehicle I re connected with Mike Calnan and arranged t go visit him for a reconnaissance visit ad confirmation of a possible deal.

A week later, armed with a wedge of cash and equipped with a rental trailer and a rental small excavator and a willing accomplice we arrived for the recovery.

The CL70 is made up of a front and rear car and were stored on the ground separated.

With some gentle persuasion a pair was dragged out of the tall grass storage. Mike also generously allowed us t remove a second front car for parts as neither was complete and it will be easier to compare the two side by side and do the work in the warm and dry..

The excavator proved to be the perfect tool for the job and blended subtlety and power a deft control all in one.

As we had an extra piece, we made a mad dash to a local shop to put the first piece on the back of the truck deck so we would still hae enough space to get everything home in one trip.

Back at Mike's place we loaded the other two pieces and the spare chassis frame.

I recall there being a number of very plain Jane short and long wheel base Land Rovers for driver training in the early 1980s. They usually had civvy rear cross members, cant recall about the dash set up.

They had yellow rear and white front licence plates but with the military VRN.

Most did nothing but driver training Monday to Friday. Some ended up in the duty vehicle fleet or being used by the cookhouse or various training wings if needed. They were very straight and very clean vehicles, washed within an inch of their life. All the galvanised capping and parts were not painted over.

 The driver training ones had an L plate front and rear, I am not sure how the rear was applied but the front was I think mounted on a stiff piece of material and bolted through the grille without the need for holes. something tell me the rear one was on a similar backing but was attached to a thin metal bracket that clipped over the rear of the body tub and hung down below the canvas, that is my recollection. Well, I just re-watched the video below right through and there is some good info for you at the 9.30 mark and onward.

There were no other markings on the vehicle at all and the paint was a slighty shiny green. There is a good example at the early part of this video which would have been a duty vehicle.

Certainly looks military with that VRN, I am sure someone will be able to trace that. Seller must be in the sand sales department for a middle eastern conglomerate.

Iain,

very interesting, thank you for posting

I am selling the Bedford, the last one shown, on behalf of my employer.

There is a sale currently underway and the add has expired now.