Bodge Deep

Not bad actually. I was expecting it to be a great numb thing but it was quite 'user friendly' (although I was only taking it round a field a few times & didn't get out of 3rd)

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Driven one :mrgreen:

Yeah i tried yesterday but it kept putting me in thailand or somewhere!

gave up in the end :?

That's a hell of a commute in the Jimmy every day!

Looks like a drogue chute for the quarter mile :mrgreen:

Take a lot of stopping them jimmys

Nah I managed about 300 yards up the road where I had to pull over cause I was shaking so much

Lucky so & so...

I'd love to take mine :cry:

Happy Birthday HMVF :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :wink:

Nice museum and well worth a look :-D

Get yer bum to Rawcliffe!

& we'll stop to tow you there on the way past :mrgreen:

Just Empty Every Pocket :evil:

I spy with my little eye... something beginning with... J :roll:

Nah I'll just sob inconsolably in the corner here

Still at least my mate is there spending some money on my behalf

New windscreen rubber and arial

Had a traumatising weekend just gone listening to a couple of mates who were getting ready to drive a Jimmy and a '45 Mack down from Blackpool @ 35mph!!

The'yre there now, say hi if y'see 'em (can't miss the Mack it's Huuuge!) :mrgreen:

Nothing I'm flippin goin' to :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

Nice one Jack, cheers for sharing

okay long story short version

Local loony robs a building society at gun point & looks up at the security camera on the way out giving the local newspaper a perfect picture of himself.

He looks EXACTLY like me, to the point where even my mum thinks its me!

I was working in a pub at the time so had about 30 witnesses.

The jokes wear thin to the point that I decide to go to the plod and say

"I really look like this fella but it wasn't me & this is my address, name, car reg etc"

They take the details (reluctantly) and I go off thinking i have done me bit!

Whilst shopping at the weekend I notice there's a lot of police about in town & don't think much about. Get in the car... police car behind. It dissapears after a few mins.

Another one appears a few mins later then dissapears after half a mile or so.

I stop at the petrol station which is too busy so i think sod it and am pulling back into the traffic when a patrol range rover goes past sideways, all 4 locked up, blue smoke, blue lights the lot. I'm gawping at this spectacle of remarkably bad driving when he leaps out the thing and comes sprinting towards me screaming at me to get back from the side of the road and to keep my hands where he can see 'em.

In the space of about 5 seconds my car is completeley surrounded by swat type vans about 5 patrol cars & assorted bikes. all the armed response come tumbling out of the vans tooled up and ready to turn me and the car into a teabag!

whilst keeping my hands in sight i undo my belt and am unceremoniously 'yoinked' out of the car like a rag doll and 'starsky and hutched' over the bonnet with the whole world (it feels like) watching.

Questions barked at me by some smart arse cheif inspector type for about 5 mins who has obvoiusly just been promoted in his own mind for a 'result'

at which point the officer i gave my details to the week before recognises me and has a word with with the big cheese... and i'm left shaking like a dog sh1tting bones by the side of the road while they pack up and bog off. I can laugh now but i ranks so far as the scariest thing i've ever been through :-o

About 10 years ago I was jumped at gun point by the polices armed response unit (about 30 of 'em) at a petrol station... They thought i was a bank robber :-o

Since getting the Dodge I cant remeber what the wifes good side is like :shocking: :nono: :banana:

Going to blackpool this weekend Tim?

give it time :-D

Didn't buy my 51 from Kjell but met him a couple of times & he is a nice bloke... Lloyd got a good 'un from him.

Hornby Castle

The Hornby Castle event will be held on 10th and 11th June 2006, at Hornby Castle, just north of Lancaster. This year along with the normal attractions of a beer tent and military vehicles, there will be greater access to the castle, two runs (one on the Saturday and one on the Sunday), and a dance on Saturday night with a a live Swing Band. Contact by e-mail, HornbyATsouthcumbrianorthlancsmvt.org.uk for further details.

http://www.southcumbrianorthlancsmvt.org.uk/

Can't drive it to work but I'll take it out in the evening for a run

I'm with Mark, I prefer them too.

A lot less to go wrong (in a kind of 1am stumble drunk into them style !!)

and I think more comfortable

I think it was only the WC55 that had the 37mm gun and then had them removed later to revert back to WC52's (or closest equivalent, that being the 3/4 ton pick up with winch). The 55's were reinforced round the body & chassis to cope with recoil of the 37mm leaping around in the back of it! I don't think the Norwegian army took any 55's complete with guns as they were stripped of them by the US army as far as i know well before the end of the war. I know of only one 55 with its gun (& i think that has been re-made). Lloyd who is on here occasionally had a lovey 55 but don't mention it you'll make 'im go all bleary eyed :wink: