Tony B

wasn't there a challenge some years ago Army against others to build a pair of 88 Series 3s from parts? Took about 18 hours if I remember correctly.

Not only you, my comoputer was doing the same this morning. Fine now.

a little three year old boy is sitting on the toilet. his mother thinks he has been in there too long, so she goes in to see what's up. the little boy is sitting on the toilet reading a book. but about every 10 seconds or so he puts the book down, grips onto the toilet seat with his left hand and hits himself on top of the head with his right hand. his mother says: "billy, are you all right? You've been in here for a while". billy says: "i'm fine, mummy... I just haven't done it yet. " mother says: "ok, you can stay here a few more minutes. but, billy, why are you hitting yourself on the head?" billy says: "it works for tomato sauce!"

Welcome in.

Drinks on you then! :-D

Depends on the size. Sealed beam units can be bought quite easily.

How insurance works is beyond me. I've had quotes on the same vehicle from £5000 to £165!

Got to be a Dodge. :-D

If you pull the string at the back, they pop in and out!

welcome in, all the info you would want is here somewhere.

welcome in a nice find.

Welcome Taffy, yes please on the photos.

No Robin, you are right. We all hold the vehicles in trust. It is right to try and be as true as possible to the original. But the old girls wear out and kit has to be made or adapted. The result depends on the integrity of the person who is the custodian. Like old bulidings things change. Just make sure the changes are logged. Some are rivet counters, others are quite happy to fit a diffrent engine or other major mods.

Hey, who cares!! The love of the vehicles and the fun of owning and operating them. The tears and tearing of hair, the pure joy of some of things they enable us to do. Don't give a monkeys, just love owning and driving the Dodge and the Land Rovers!

More than 'several'. they also used a lot of french tank turrets mounted on bunkers. The latest CIOS reveiw has a long articale on it. Ihve a number of phiots about but to start have a look at this site. http://www.thisisjersey.co.uk/hmd/

Er, I have to admit, I was thinking air gun weapons... :blush:

Always a question of 'How Original'. You can bet by the time it comes out of the factory and spends a couple of years in service a lot of parts have been replaced. Like the axe, it's original with three new hafts and the heads ben replaced. Terry Prattchet (Discworld again) Rhys, the Low King of the Dwarf's describe his Grand father's axe (For DW afficinados, I'm following Dwarf Ettiquete!) 'the decoration may have been freshened a bit, but as it has changed slowly with love and care, who can say it is not my grandfather's axe?'

Bloody hell we got summink right!! :yay::dancinggirls:Hope any other problems are as easy to fix! :-D Just run a couple of feet backwards before disengaing 4x4.

Lovley and practical.

Bit of an insult to call the RAF Pinzines, ambulances. The original spec was more of a highly mobile intensive care ward!

Should last a while then! :-D

Hi Clive. to answer your Explorer question, yes of course you are insane. That's why your welcome here.

welcome Tam, this a good palce to find odd bits.

I throughly agree about the crimper tool. Get a good one with a built in ratchet. Not cheap mine cost £25 but works all the time every time and gives good solid connections so well worth it the long run.

It works though. :cool2: