jason1968

You should put a cheap date less reg number on it it would add to the authenticity of it instead of it being and r reg. Fabulous project and i look forward to seeing it in real life

Back in the late eighties my 11 cab chevrolet fat (quad) was rare there were only ford versions known of at the time. Wish I could find where she went reg number was jya619

Ive seen one of these in my friends shed it was out of a large old quarry compressor if I remember rightly I will pm you with his details

Just bought a new project today with the help of my wife a 1940 fiat racing car based on a toplino. so they are not all bad just most of them!!!!!!!

My 1949 v8 eighty inch land rover that I built from parts and my 1941 11 cab chevrolet fat both went to fund a girl friend with expensive tastes who is now long gone

I was watching a war film last week and I did not know that the germans had white halftracks and dressed up 109 series two landrovers the yanks had m37 dodges and reos and a ferret or two in world war two!! when are the film makers ever going to get it right at least with kellys heros the vehicles were of the right time period. There are enough preserved ww2 military vehicles aircrarft and boats in the world for there to be no excuse

Just spotted a 1917 packard truck on ebay item number 171074782364looks a good restoration

You think you have it bad, I am in the model railway industry , now there's where you find professional rivit counters , colour experts , and all sorts, from the down right rude to people to the biggest know alls of all time. It seems also that everyone's dad used to Drive the flying Scotsman too.

on the other side of the coin there's a lot of very knowledgable people out the standing quietly in the background

I have a ruston hornsby locomotive that was used in the construction of the cads at corsham and i have taken it to a few shows with a information board on the front and the amount of people that say it was not used or couldnt have been used underground is astonishing. I also have an orenstein and koppell kidget and so many people say did you weld that together or is it a toy makes me real mad so I do not show any of my toys now they just sit in their shed and get played with when i want.

This sort of thing used to drive me potty with my haflinger it was as released and had the 45 comando markings on the front (never touched) people would come up to me and say that the dagger was upside down or 45 never had haflingers and that my very very rare helicopter towbar that came with it was not original tyre kickers do my nut in:mad: shes now put away for nobody to see and just for my own pleasure in the summer months I used to get the same with my 11 cab fat and my mk2b hippo I do not know if its jealousy or just that most people do not know???????

a tidy q4 commer with what looked like a tipper body on the A36 near beckington somerset lovely to see one out and about! probably came from that crap rally at southwick

The cheapest fuel in somerset is sainsburys in frome its always 2 pence cheaper than anywere else in the area....

A chap near bristol with a morris commercial cdsw also has one of these bowsers. and years ago there was one on mangotsfield golf course complete with all its bits and was being used to water the green when the weather was dry

when I was younger I remember seeing a film about some chaps who found a tank buried in some sand dunes in the desert and they dug it out got it running and drove home any body got an idea of what the film was called?

My grandfather served with the SBS in palestine and he said they were being stocked with war surplus vehicles all the time so what they used to do was set fire to them and push them into the nearest ravine he mentions staghounds jeeps dingos 15cwt bedfords etc etc with myself owning a few military vehicles years ago he would come out when my latest toy arrived home and say thats a chevrolet 11 cab or a dingo etc etc and i said nothing to him before hand . He also said that they used to push the kit into the sea as well so somone in palestine got rich doing the scrap out there i reckon

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Ive seen the truck again and its missing its canvas but looks very good condition be a shame for it to get scrapped

At jw ransomes scrap yard in bunns lane Frome somerset there is a tidy looking sumb truck It is possibly for sale Their number is 01373461134 it definetly needs saving or it will get the cutters torch through it

Its first world war definetly but not sure of age as yet I will try and get a picture of it eventually.

I have spoken to my friend in bristol and his lorry is a tilling stephens petrol electric.:embarrassed:

I trialled a humber one ton at bovvy in the early 90s it didnt do the poor old girl any good that flint got in every where and we broke a rear tracta joint :-(

It snowed very heavily for about an hour thus morning here in frome i was under a landrover in it taking a prop off:cheesy:

What I love about this film is 99% of the vehicles are right for this era not like say pearl harbour where they use reos and various other films that use the wrong trucks it drives me potty. ALWAYS WITH THE NEGATIVE WAVES sorry

Im sure my friend in bristol has a maudsley chassis I know he has a large engine that is restored and looks very similar to the one in the photograph. I will telephone him and find out!

Hi there the engine is the one that offen had. I have now sold it as it was a bit much to do being partially disabled. the chap that bought it has all the parts that I needed and is aiming to get it running. I have also sold the merlin as well best of luck with your quest have you had a look at the historic aviation forum lots of info and very helpful people on there>

I know where there is a very tidy RL cargo truck sat in a yard waiting to be rescued and also and RL wrecker thats a bit sorry for itself but could be bought. If any one is interested please pm me for adress