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You could try Dave Crouch. He often breaks Bedford 4x4s for spares.

Wonder how long it will be before HMC+E contact you to chase payment of import duty from Germany? :rofl: Only joking (i hope!).

I want one! http://imageevent.com/okbueno/mopic;jsessionid=9mic4qltv2.camel_s?p=41&n=1&m=-1&c=10&l=0&w=4&s=0&z=2

Hey Jack - if ever there was a suitable plane with your name on it...... http://www.flickr.com/photos/39860650@N02/5653699630/in/photostream/

The camels were lifted on with a large crane of course! [ATTACH=CONFIG]78881[/ATTACH]

There has to be a reason why the impeller retaining pin (is it tapered?) is so long, but you'll need to explain please! Surely not for breaking ice....:cool2:

Race car transporters? (The CAMEL TROPHY).

That deserves a prize, Bernard!

OK - how can you tell if the timber chassis rail packing under a chain drive Mack tipper body is original? (couldn't find a French Smiley)

Well it looks like a civvy spec 6x4 TM, so would be a bit of an oddball for the British army, and the crane might be a Grove (characteristic hydraulic arm with cable hook block). There were quite a few of these ex military (NATO maybe?) Grove cranes for sale a few years back, both new s/h and reconditioned.

What - the two Mikes and Adrian? Harsh.....

Yes - followed by:

Difficult choice, Tony. I'm a bit biased (or do I mean lazy.....) as I don't have the petrol engine fine tuning skills (I mean patience ) of others, so take my take on it with a pinch of salt, but regardless of how you weight the benefit of diesel economy, there are other factors which have an impact. For example it seems to be increasingly difficult to find spares for many of these big wartime petrol engines. Fair to say I think that economy on its own, whilst definitely real, depends on amount of use the truck will get. Diesel wins on: complete engine availability / reliability */ spares availability / rebuild (engine machining) capability / economy * especially after a long period of layup when petrol requires a lot of attention - spark, stale fuel Petrol wins on: originality (including the sound!) / ................there must be more but nothing springs to mind! How about the following rationale? If the truck is a pristine restoration or one which has good potential to be made into same, an original petrol might offer best resale potential. If it is a good useable truck which will probably never be a 'minter' (being realistic a lot of trucks are in this category) then a diesel might give a better resale value or appeal to a bigger potential market? On the other hand, if the truck is going to need a lot of work by whoever buys it, then whoever takes it on would probably have the skills to do the conversion should they so choose, and if it has a recently fitted good RXC this should have a good resale value to those of the original persuasion.

No, I didn't think so.

You don't by any chance mean the PYREX PEOPLE? The guys who came over from Europe between the Bronze and Iron Ages, who brought with them pots which would withstand the direct heat of a fire?

Leave? LEAVE? I'ts taken me 24 years to arrive!

Erm - Jack, why has the Clubhouse croquet lawn been covered in Pierced Steel Planking?

Never seen a Dodge WOODY before! :-D

Yes, sorry Phil - I forgot to put a smiley on my post :-D

Never mind, you'll get your fix of that when you next come over and do a stock-take of your boxes!

In which case I would definitely recommend losing the bogus rebuild plate!

You've been sold a ringer? Or- if there is evidence of a weld between the stamped number and the plate - it could be a cut-and-shunt? Taxi!

Ah, so that's what a SYSTEM GENERATED DISCLAIMER looks like.....

Does she have modern engines in?

Have you seen this one, Will? http://www.milweb.net/classifieds.php?type=38 Tony