Hi everyone, thought I had better introduce myself!
R cubed and Bodger Baz have been telling me to sign up, so here I am!
What can I tell you, well, it all started on a ''weekend break'' my mum and dad had in the New Forest in the autumn of 1968..........ah, no, sorry, thats going back a bit too far........ok, it all started in the early eighties, when as a schoolboy I made the realisation that Airfix kits of MVs were ok, but the real thing was so much better!
I left school at 16, and straight away started looking for a project with my very meagre funds. One of the first vehicles I looked at was a WW2 1 1/2 ton Chevrolet M6 Bomb crane, but it was too major a project for a very nervous 16 yr old, so instead I settled for an M38A1, which I restored, making lots of mistakes, but learnt lots in the process.
Numerous MVs followed, Morris MRA1, Landy 2a SWB, BSA B40, Can Am, Triumph TRW, in varying states of dis-repair, all of which came and went, but in the mid nineties I bought a '61 Land Rover 2a LWB, and a '41 Triumph 5SW, both of which I still own, and love 'em both dearly! But I still really fancied a Chev......
Last summer, I stumbled across a '42 Chev 1 1/2 ton tipper, in a hell of a state, only just rescueable, but I just couldnt bear the thought of it being cut up. So, 'Oddball', as she is already known (obviously after Donald Sutherland's character in Kelly's Heroes), is coming along nicely, and doing a very good job of extracting any spare cash I have, even better than my daughter!
I should have stuck to Airfix kits, much cheaper and no rust issues.............