Nick Johns

Wonder if that was the stallholder who bought up lots of baragain Jeep parts early morning and then later put them up for sale on his pitch, of course at a much higher price!

A few years ago Robbie Coltrane did a fascinating TV series called "Planes trains & automobiles" it featured a V8 powered air raid siren, they got it running, originally mounted on top of a tall building, remotely controlled, it ran on LPG

One of the films I run in the mobile Cinema very kingly donated by Robert, "WOA2" is of the changeover to war production at Dagenham, showing WOT2 trucks and tractors being assembled

There's inflation for you, we bought 6 Dingos at the Ruddington auctions back in the late 1960's, all runners, avaraged out at £37 EACH ! but then you could by a decent Jeep for £30 too !!

A couple of pics of Morris LRC

There's inflation for you, we bought 6 Dingo's from Ruddington auction sales in the late '60s, all runners, averaged out at £35 each !! also bought my first Jeep at same time, with MOT for £30 !

It's a 1 1/2 ton Chevrolet 4X4 not a GMC

The early bird...and all that ..well worth it with some baragain Jeep bits...regulator box £10 gen Jeep working speedo £15 !! radiator £20 ! plus other bargain bits

I will be there, don't forget its clocks back 1hr tonight too, another reason to oversleep !

Annual Poppy day Military vehicle meet 8th November at the famous North London biker cafe on the North circular road, no entry forms.. just turn up for 9.30am, Cafe is open for breakfast, Rememberance Service at 11am http://www.ace-cafe-london.com

15th November complete the entry form below...otherwise pay full price at the gate! military vehicles form.pdf

Amazing slow motion 1mFPS. film of bullet hits

Our Berliet GBC was busy the other w/e shifting some containers

From Mr Vanderveens directory an MW is 6' 6" wide and 14' 4" long and 7' 6" high with top on, my Dodge weapons carrier just fits in a standard garage, after removing the tilt and hoops

The first pic "G" reg MW was the late Phil Passey of Newbury it was a very complete wireless truck complete with all its radio gear, Tony Oliver then owned it for some years, the MW below with canvas cab was my brothers, with my Dingo parked next to it ! He bought MW from the local scout group and restored it, don't know where it is now...all a long time ago

It was used on this USMC GMC, more likely to have been used on marine application with the capstan drum for normal rope and the wire rope drum for winching/lifting, the two levers, one operated a brake on the wire rope drum, the other disconnected the drive so the capstan could run independently

This is the Churchill that was buried for years on the Sussex downs? Thought I read somewhere that it had been recovered to a collector/museum somewhere?

The link is here, as the pics are on the G503 server you have to register to view them, easily done and its free http://hmvf.co.uk/forumvb/showthread.php?t=14301

Salute to the 40's this w/e @ Chatham...who is going?

The gearbox...they can be very notchy or baulk to change gear when worn, check for worn layshaft bearings whilst in 1st/2nd gear, not growling by comparison when in top gear, also jumping out of gear on overrun...all mean fairly expensive job to sort out Look underneath for any serious oil leaks from transfer box and axles, worn prop shaft splines front & rear, again all mean work and money to sort out, if its 24volt check its charging ok with all the lights on

Watch this superb video of Ken Clays recently restored Ford GPW Jeep...btw Ken is a profesional camerman hence the oustanding quality, the Jeep will be for sale soon

Probably heading to the Victory show at Cosby

Depends on the street, trucks over 3.5 ton usually need side lights on at night

Oh thats how you finance your fleet of vehicles....lol

Sorry to have to correct you, I watched some of the filming of the opening scene of the Bond film, "Die another day" it was actually shot on the much larger Long valley training area/vehicle test site near Aldershot, not Slab common Bordon and very spectacular it was too in usual Bond style..watch here....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrfObAiYrHY And further trivia, the also spectacular opening battle scene in "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe was shot on Forestry commission land just up the road from Slab common near Farnham, Surrey!! We ran the first AWDC events at Slab over 38 years ago! including the first ever Heavy vehicle trials, also held at other sites further down the road at Weaversdown and at Bovington, which after being reported on by an enthusiastic French car magazine journalist were the inspiration for the start of the Europa truck trials ! http://www.europatrucktrial.org/