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7/10 Andy! You'd have got full marks had you remembered that I'd posted a photo of one for sale on here a year or so back :-D Say - how about you send me the prize DVD when you've finished watching it :cool2:

Well look at it this way Andy - there's a perfectly good bonneted front end replacement for the bus laying in the ditch :-D Seriously, animals like that driver should be prosecuted by the RSPCHGV. Bloody throttle jockey.

Agreed, but it as been my experience that some HMV metal has a serious attitude problem...

Endoscopes. I had a consultant surgeon use one of those on me a few years ago. While I was waiting on the operating table I commented to the nurses on the choice of heavy rock music they'd put on the c d player at very high volume. They apologised and said "Mr. C always insists on playing it, and loud. Not our choice of listening either". After a couple more tracks Mr. C eventually breezed in. He said he could give me two options - either sedate me lightly so I could watch the camera monitor, or knock me out cold. I replied "Well I guess it depends on what music you're going to play". That was the last thing I remember.....

If I tried that I'd be sure to end up with a phone and a camera stuck in the same place :nut:

If you push hard down on the fan belt to momentarily increase tension and then turn the fan you should find it will turn the crank. Alternatively drop the tin cover underneath the bellhousing and lever the flywheel. Edit: Aha - I see RF has beaten me to it :-D

Great work - I'd be interested in two sheets. Reckon you'll need a UK distributor to save individual postage costs :cool2:

I guess one argument might be that whilst Allied vehicles were more plentiful, so many were scrapped in later life as road vehicle condition standards were pushed forever higher, whereas Axis vehicles, what few remained, found a longer afterlife in less affluent areas away from the demands of the MOT tester?

Just looking at a mediumn sized Renault truck put up for sale today on m i l w e b, is anyone else surprised at the increasing number of WW2 trucks used by Germans coming onto the market in recent months? They are all rare survivors when you consider how relatively few there were and how many were destroyed, compared with the large volume of U.S vehicles which survived the war to see further mass use prior to the preservation movement gaining momentum.

Nice pictures, Paul! :-) I'm sure they would have installed a pto on the gearbox (which was a Chevy 4 speed not GMC 5 speed, but a GMC PTO would fit on just fine, or indeed a Chev PTO!) - but what about the winch? I'm not aware of any standard fitment winch which would fit in between the chassis rails - the other alternative would be a front mount winch off a GMC or 1 1/2T Chev and reeve the rope back under/alongside engine to rear of gearbox (bit awkward). My money is on a simple non-standard winch installed behind the gearbox, running off a standard PTO.

You know, somewhere I may just have an original 'de-bogging' ramp for a Rugged - it came in a stillage of crap from Withams. It was basically a 3ft length of 6" x 2" x 1/4" section aluminium channel (nato green ISTR). It would have made light work of that odd sticky moment. I'll go and have a look.

Your mind must be distracted by Rodgers & Hammerstein musicals (South Pacific :cool2:).

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The GRIM REAPER Biplane is wonderful!!

Received the first of several new style vehicle registration certificates - the front cover is covered in red. Apparently a load of certificates were stolen, so DVLA is having to replace all existing log books with the 'red' ones to try to minimise the risk of vehicle cloning using the stolen certificates. They expect to have them all issued by Nov 2012. Expensive exercise..... Oh, and if you buy a vehicle before Nov 2012 perhaps a good idea to do a check on the registration?

Might even be working hard for a living, hauling tropical hardwood. After all, it's what they were built for :cool2:

Looks like it's just loaded a QL body :whistle:

I find it amazing that anyone should bother to make counterfeit plugs - they're not exactly high value items although I guess the volume sold is big. I get mine from a major auto elec parts supplier - sounds like it's best not to trust back street shops or the high street market then.

That isn't an exclusive deal - my WLF has a seized engine, so that do not run either. Taxi!

My admittedly limited experience has been the opposite - mainly because Champion J8Cs oiled up quickly, whereas NGK ran hotter and stayed a lot cleaner :-D. Is there any particular reason why you do not rate the NGKs, Paul?

I reckon the notch could be more to do with alignment in an assembly jig.

Well you couldn't get 2 wheels and axles fabricated for that, oh and don't forget the bearings!

Gate Guardian job - is the plan to 'tyrefill' the tyres, or stand on axle/frame supports? Biggest visual let-down / continuous maintenance on these static vehicles is flat tyres!

Yes, they look like they're up to mischief - just cruisin' around, ready to wheelie at any moment!!

Nooo - it's an Autocar or Federal tractor unit and 2,000gall single axle trailer.