Bodge Deep

I always think that haynes manuals should grade jobs by the number of skinned knuckles and blood lost and expletives used "Ah yes starter motor removal and refitment " "It says here 3 plasters, 2 knuckes, a couple of f**kin' s, 3 cups o' tea :-o and bang your head on the bumper getting out from under the car each time until dizzy :-D

Surely a contender for the 'Worst place to break down' trophy The trophy being a first aid kit for bruised foot after hoofing the offending vehicle, which goes from your pride and joy to your nemesis in the time it takes to kick it as hard as you can :wink: Nice Truck Ghasp I know well the sensation of waiting at the docks for your truck to arrive... very exciting... then driving it home 140-odd miles!

Secondly I do not take any of my vehicles to swimming galas or horse of the year shows because they don't fit. Why would anyone want to take a 1960's vehicle to a forties event at eg a steam railway? There could be some slight reason to go the other way: jeeps were in use up to the 60's I believe for example but if the event is supposed to show a particular period then stay away if your vehicle(s) don't fit. Exactly

Perhaps many postwar vehicles lack the romance that is associated with their WWII counterparts? Romance in terms of peoples emotional reaction/ attraction to them. As a WWII vehicle owner I have experienced this when MOPs will march right past a mint PW/modern vehicle to ogle my Dodge (not mint by any means!) much to the annoyance of the PW vehicle owner (possibly one of the reasons for the division). But because they (the MOP) remember riding in one as a kid or driving one in service or seeing them during the war (an extremely emotive period in anyones memory who lived through it) they become part and parcel of the experience and engrained in their memory as much as powdered egg or the sound of Glenn Miller. I think that striving for authenticity is a good thing and people should be a little less precious about "I'm not invited to this party" It's no different from trawling ebay for that hard to find part for your vehicle for it to look right...after all you could put BMW headlights on your champ but it would look wrong... event organisers are doing the same thing... trying to make the event look as authentic as possible not just "kind of right". If you're not invited to go...throw your own party... have a great time! I wouldn't take the dodge to a PW vehicle show (although it was in service in Norway 'till the 80's!). Just as I wouldn't take the Dodge to a First World War event/re-enactment as it would be utterly out of place & look wrong. So why is, as Clive said, acceptable for a post war vehicle, to get amongst jimmys, jeeps & dodges at a wartime event and be the cause of a rumpus just 'cause its military? If the event is just a MV show, great, allcomers turn up & enjoy the variety and diversity of vehicles from all eras. If it's a 40's event... 40's vehicles only simple as that :wink:

How rough did that jeep sound :?

Does it need they key putting back into it and winding up a bit more :-D Or it could be the MAP sensor (air pressure sensor) on the inlet manifold (if it has one) I had a Pug 406 with the same symptoms exactly... it was that.

Utter, utter cobblers (the white poppies, not you Jack :-D ) Makes my p1ss boil Grrrr

Would you like to be excused :-D

A drawbar :?

I'm not greedy, I'll have the P51 in bits... Anyone got a 20 foot long pair of pliers and a 200 gallon tube of polystyrene cement i can borrow :-D

Don't you mean thread :-D

Blimey you won't fall over in them :-D Nice

yahoo working again :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

I'm not exactly close either (lake district) but my in-laws live about 15 mins away from the museum so i try & get there when we're visiting. Love the jacket

Excellent stuff, I love the Thorpe Abbots museum Swapped the dodge over to 100 BG markings the other week and am putting together an 8th Airforce Enlisted Mans A class for hangar dances etc just finished this yesterday... Lily is my daughter and today (8th) is my birthday very sobering thinking fo what those guys went through [attachment deleted by admin]

bomb disposal? "Is it ticking" "Dunno hit it with a hammer!"

is it an earthing spike for something ?

Nice pics cheers Conspicuous by your absense :evil:

More dodges :-D :-D :-D :-D

ooh I'll watch that Strangely compulsive that programme :-o

Ahh nothing quite like the searing agony of a slipped disk Welcome to the club 'old horse' soon you'll be creaking with the rest of us like an old galleon in a storm I'll never forget coming to a complete stanstill in the middle of town thinking i was gonna die if i breathed out... or in... or moved my eyes Badback sufferers of the world rise up... slowly... then stand stock still for about 30 seconds... then think bu&&er it & sit down again :shake: :shake: :shake: :-D Oh & get well soon BTW... or at least to your computer :wink:

Niiiiice :wink: Second one is a later model 51 or 52 looks like mine 8-) Noticed the soldier on the far right of the fist pic has hobnailed boots on British maybe?

'kin' computers :-o

Yeah they do seem to be a bit more resonable at the moment (notice i did say "a bit more") keeping an eye on petrolprices.com - Time to fill up the dodge :-o

That's not a T34 Mark!