LarryH57

Or it was sold at auction at Goodwood, where £85K would be cheap compared to the bids for obscure racing cars once touched or looked at by Graham Hill or Jackie Stewart!!!

Someone I met at an MV event today, said that the legislation from the European Union to ban deactivated weapons has now been adopted in the UK. Is this true?

Very interesting Ted. I'm sure you will agree that the vehicle should not be RAF blue - which in Ian's case isn't

Incidentally on the point of the public now being able to park their cars within the show, is that likely to increase the amount of things being stolen off vehicles, as taking stuff and then briskly walking to a nearby car, then putting stolen items in the car boot is much quicker / tempting that perhaps walking half a mile back out through the entrance / exit for people on foot and all the way back to a distant car park. I suppose the risk relates to the item; a spare wheel off a jeep could disappear much quicker with a thief's car nearby rather than it being rolled or carried out on foot, and much less noticeable. It never ceases to amaze me how trusting MV owners are with their vehicles! Fingers crossed the public will treat our vehicles and supporting weapons and kit with respect!

Have you done the areas of the US breakout in July 1944 (Operation COBRA) St Lo down to Mortain and Domfront or perhaps the area south of Caen down to Falaise for the British Commonwealth & Polish breakout?

Regarding Clive's comment on whether Black was used over SCC2 Brown, I have a copy of rare colour movie taken when King George VI visited Malvern TRE in 1945 and the escorting staff car is in Brown with Black camo on all upper surfaces.

Interesting comments; Jules I have met you at Beltring and seen the work you did on the Fordson Radar Truck, so I know you researched your colours well, as does Tony Corbin who posts on here concerning the Fordson(s) he owns. As for Canadian vehicles, Mike Starmer suggests as do other sources that these were produced in near enough matches of UK painting colours and changed around the same time as the British Army changed its colour schemes, so if you sand down to the base colour of a British or Canadian vehicle and find the ORIGINAL colour (not applied by a Post war Army) and use that as the match for a re-spray you can't get better than that. Still I'm sure many thousand were in SCC 2 brown, so it does make you think why some from that period being restored now are painted in a colour nearer SCC 15 Olive Drab. It sort of backs up Adrian's assertion that SCC2 is not a popular choice these days (with or without black or very dark brown so called Micky Mouse ear camo)?

IMBS but it seems to me that the default color applied to most of the vehicles being restored on here is green, when in fact many vehicles were produced during the mid war period in SCC No 2 brown. So am I missing something here or are owners just going for green without realising?

Interesting thread; is there by chance a web link for Arkiv.dk

Scams; Oh no they are not going to ban FV432 Stumgeschutz and the Sdkfz 222 Landrovers are they?

I appreciate that in previous years that the show closed on Sunday, so I suppose that it didn't make much sense to say our European friends will be affected this year by being asked to stay till Sunday - but for me and perhaps a few other owners not everyone in the family appreciates MVs as much as we do, it seems strange not to allow owners to get home on Saturday evening and have Sunday with 'er in doors. This in turn makes we wonder if a 5 day show increases the number of visitors or just spreads the same number of punters over a longer period, just like the supermarkets found when they started to open dawn till dusk, 7 days a week; people started to buy a little and often rather than one massive shop!

I have my answer! Entry to the site will be from Friday 15 July 2016, and exhibitors must be set up and ready for the show opening on Tuesday 19thJuly at 10.00 hours, so it’s preferable to arrive Monday latest. The show ends on Saturday 23rd July but exhibitors will not be allowed to pack up and leave the site until Sunday morning at 06:00 hours. W&PR is a five day show, not a four or four and a half day show, so if you are not able to meet this criteria do not apply! Actually arriving on Monday and leaving on Sunday makes it a 7 day show for me, and I wasn't previously aware that MV owners couldn't come home on Saturday after the public had left. I wonder how this will affect our friends from across the Channel who have to get back to work the day after?

Guys, is it the case that you cannot turn up with an MV half way through the week to W&PR? So I understand owners need to be arriving on Monday to be in place for the opening on Tuesday and must stay till the close of business on Saturday, which for may of us means week off work. Now if I can't spare 5 days leave then can I arrive say on Wednesday? And if I do what happens? Am I to be in the civi quiet campers field or can I park up in field with all the other MVs. So I have heard I cannot set up a civi tent next to my MV so I'll bring the 9x9 if that helps to get me in to the MV parking area later in the week than Monday.

My own penny worth; perhaps we should take a few tips from the French as their magazines on MVs and WW2 seem to be of far higher quality than anything bought commercially in the UK. Secondly having also assisted in editing Windscreen when Andy Jones did it and written articles too, I'd say that most of us have a story to tell about a restoration or a tour or a relative in the services, so make a start and who knows it may be an interesting read for us all.

Your work is an inspiration to us lesser mortals who drive MVs but don't take them apart, let alone buy them out of a skip and then assemble them from the bits! I looking forward to seeing the completed vehicle in the summer!

My own Dad was nearly killed when his old Merc fell off its jack when he was under it. Luckily for him he put some blocks under it too, so he was able to push it up on its suspension and crawl out. How he never got any broken ribs I do not know. He taught me to use axle stands in such circumstances.

More importantly what is the thing you bought to convert negatives to digital images; its not to late to get one for xmas I hope! Any links for the device?

In the advert for the new fuel on the link, it looks as if the mug on top of the stand is a plastic one; now that would be a miracle if the black mug from my webbing could be used to cook food!

I thought this was going to be an article about how all ex-military vehicles were going to be banned in France, but then that would be against all the freedoms we have been fighting for over the years.

Is that evidence of olive drab in the bulkhead under the hood?

I believe this CMP LAAT is in use by a British unit

I think you had a lucky escape personally, as spares for these seem to be quite rare in Europe let alone Australia!

It would be good to see some of their vehicles back on the MV scene. WPR is very drab without them!

I was in the TA in 1980's and never saw any Regular or TA unit in UK or BAOR with a Union Flag. My guess is that it appeared on desert camo used in Gulf War 1.

Well done Tony I'd be interested to see some more photos and to know the camo colour, as often online photos corrupt the shades; it looked like brown and blue in the first photo!!!