rog8811

Looks like monitoring bridge heights was not its strong suite:) Regards rog8811

Thanks for all the photos and descriptions! When I was looking to buy mine photos were as rare as hens teeth. I am off to Cuba soon and I have seen a number of 69's in private ownership there in the past, if I see one I will try to add to the photos. Regards rog8811

Looks good, is that a new canvas I see? I think they must use vegetable dye on them, in three years I saw mine go from that colour to light brown... even though it spent a lot of time under cover. Regards rog8811

Second linky no worky.... for me anyway Regards rog8811

I knew a superb customiser, Jeff Cousins, he built the ford pop used in some film by Paul Mc cartney. the last time I saw him he was tooling around in a Jeep he had just rebuilt. Regards rog8811

I visited them when I was hunting for a Gaz69, they were very friendly and helpful, showed me over their vehicles, said what to look out for. I didn't buy as I had tabs on another one. Regards rog8811

Sometimes If you copy the address bar and post it you only link to the google home view for some reason, I take a screen dump ( control/print screen) into a photosuite (paint) and save it as a jpeg. Hope that helps. Regards rog8811

.....and number 8 is ready to view Here. Includes some footage of a German halftrack (Sd.Kfz.7 ?) Regards rog8811

:bow:Superb! I am waiting for movie 2, "getting him the rest of the way". Nice post! Regards rog8811

Here you go Regards rog8811

Guys yard 6 and 7 now up on Jeffs vimeo page, I am having trouble buffering the last one and have only seen half but it looks to have a lot of vehicles we have not seen on previous movies. Regards rog8811

You say you are looking for a dodge command car, there is one on ebay if your pockets are deep enough. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dodge-Command-Car_W0QQitemZ230432271954QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item35a6d56e52 Regards rog8811

I will indeed look out for more, the films, posted so far, were a very welcome diversion from what I was meant to be doing. Regards rog8811

I hate to think of someone not seeing these gems, I will try something for you..... This is the direct link to Jeffs vimeo page, try running the videos from here... If you still have no joy right click in the video box and click "about adobe flash player" to see if your version is up to date. 10,0,42,34 works with windows, you may need to update. Regards rog8811

I found that if I clicked the "start", then click "pause" to let it buffer for a while, it runs fine when you click "start" again....hope that helps. Jeff looked just as I remembered him in those movies, I went to his vimeo page to see what else he has posted and was shocked to see a grey haired/bearded man looking back at me.... but there again I had a full head of flowing locks back then myself. I lost touch when he sold up at warnham, I asked him once which ones of the many unrestored vehicles scattered around the field ran? "all of them" he said with a grin. regards rog8811

Looking on google earth there is a vast yard at the back plus acres of buildings, I wonder what genuine gems are hidden there. Regards rog8811

Thanks for the link, some very nice vehicles there! I recognised one person as well, I wonder how many of those MV's ended up in the field in Warnham? Regards rog8811

Done:-)

I know that the engine looks almost exactly the same as I have seen under the bonnets of a couple of jeeps I looked at, so I would guess that is a yes.:-) Regards rog8811

This one had the side valve engine, it always ran when I needed to use it. I have only driven this one and "fast" it isn't, not sure if it is typical of the breed. I used to take it to work occassionaly, a 60mile round trip, the only time it let me down was when the dynamo failed, luckily I had a spare battery on board which got me home.. I had to rebuild the starter motor and the dynamo, that was about it. Switch gear is poor, before I set off I would flick the indicators on and off a dozen times or so to be sure they would work when I needed them, Regards rog8811

Just to get the pact under way, I owned this Jeepski for around 3 years... then I got married and moved... to a house where, if I wanted to use the garage, the roof had to come off For the eagle eyed amongst you that is a rover V8 in the load bed, I was toying with the idea of a transplant but decided it would be a shame to do that to such a nice vehicle. I have to say it was a very useful vehicle, I used it to carry equipment around my nature reserve, it never got stuck in areas where ford rangers and navaras fear to tread . Shown above doing light easy work, there never seemed to be a camera around when it was chucking it down with rain. Regards rog8811

Sorry I didn't explain correctly, I meant I searched this forum to see if there was a mention of this yard, to see if it was known to the members. Nothing found. It had me fooled! Regards rog8811

I did a search for the name "Les Oakes", scrap dealer collector but nothing came up. Reason being is a photo on ebay of a modified hearse http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Daimler-DE-36-straight-eight-hearse-romany-caravan_W0QQitemZ190369419582QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAutomobiles_UK?hash=item2c52e6d13e ....with something interesting in the background I google earthed Cheadle, stoke on trent and found the yard, not enough detail to know what else is there. Regards rog8811

Jeremy paxman on the right?

That reminds me that a number of years ago I helped Geof Theobold reassemble his auster, haul it up and suspended it from the ceiling when he had the warnham museum. Regards rog8811