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    That's nice, congratulations to you both.
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    Come on old chap, it's nearly bedtime :yawn:
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    Great stuff Nick, I remember that feeling well! We always knew Floyd's a good 'un. :yay:
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    Eeerrmmm.............. you got me there Stormin, I only do Scammells
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    Mischievous maybe, but CW always delivers......................when he feels like it :cool2:
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    Great idea Jim, perhaps a sticky thread on here with a index of members willing to take pictures of their vehicles on request, and links to any threads showing good pics would work. The key being able to find them easily. This way archives would build up slowly without too much effort, maybe each vehicle type having it's own album on HMVF.
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    Thanks for that, I should think they would be very happy with you putting the record straight as it makes more sense now, but it does point out the very reasons I will always try to avoid motorways , lack of acceleration, low cruising speed and unreliability due to the age of the vehicle. A horrible end to a wonderful trip and I wish them a speedy recovery.
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    Nice work Chris, and looks so good standing on Sword Beach, I'm beginning to feel the need to own one myself! Well done.
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    As every body seemed to have to look into the barrel of Steve's Long Tom, (horizontal about head height) I stuck a 6" smiley face on a block of wood and pushed it in as far as my finger tips would reach. After a while we noticed it was not making people laugh any more..........some s*d had nicked it!!
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    I use motorways as much as anyone in a modern vehicle, but I ventured onto one just once in my Explorer, it was scary! Driving a slow green hard to see vehicle on along one is bonkers, however big it is, let alone your small soft top pride and joy with no seatbelts and rubbish mirrors etc. Why risk being rear ended or a breakdown, take the scenic rout and enjoy!
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    Bet that model even smells like a Pioneer, it's even got the usual tyre fitted wrong! How have these people got the patience?
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    I have worked (only fitting) in a body shop with men who could reproduce any thing, making parts from steel thick enough to work with, doing compound curves on the English wheel can often mean two men pulling/pushing the part and another carefully heating with a torch. Rolling beads and forming edges on complex shapes also often takes two. £250 per wing may be worth if the result is as good as the work they have done for you before, however I would still have a go myself first given the patience you chaps have!
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    Hi Julian, nice Hippos, never noticed tyres like the front ones on the second Hippo before, are they hand cut?
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    Welcome Rich a nice truck you've got there, and still fitted with the very rare semaphore wing mirrors I see. :-D
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    Exactly, that really annoys em :banana:
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    This one converted by George Taylor to 101 inches wheel base to tow a large stump grinder that was too much for their poor old Series LR, did a good job of it too! No prizes for knowing what the rolling chassis in front is......... Pic courtesy of George Taylor
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    Having a rare vehicle can sometimes work with these rivet counters, Forceful is one of the few Explorers not to have been a REME of RAF vehicle, which has had it's civilian reg number from new, and the contract number does not appear in any manuals etc..........................but usualy they don't believe that either :banghead:
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    Summat like this I just love those guys up to their necks in the water :nut:
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    Thanks chaps, much appreciated.
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    Well you've been and gone and done it now! Madrat by name..............Madrush by nature :-D On the positive side it looks to be the most complete and easily restored toy in your growing collection, should be pretty unbreakable too. Mods please note Madrat's got a proper dedicated restoration viewing area in his barn, I understand seating will be provided as well. This is something we could do with in the new 16.5 million pound clubhouse extension on winter evenings, We can bring our own refreshments.....:coffee:
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    Not quite true Degsy, A local bloke got pulled for doing 160mph on the M25 at 4 AM a few years back:shake:. The Ford Scorpoi patrol car maxed out at 145, so plod Vascared him going away at 15mph.
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    Always been a hot rodder, this I like :thumbsup: By the way happy birthday Cap'n!
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    Dark and horrid is good, they won't show mine up then!
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    There was one of these at Beltring a few years ago, I believe it went to a European museum, may be the same one
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    Good progress, nice work Jim, I see you have slipped a nice shiny pipe on the engine, :shocked:, I'm very sorry to tell you this but I have read somewhere in a user handbook that pipes should on no account be polished! :cry: This is because they can become thin and hardened and so lead to fracturing, apart from catching the sun.
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