younggun

i like the scammell wheel wash in the forground :cool2:

put it this way i was close cash was in pocket at the time needs cab and body work and some engine work which sadly is a little to much for me to haddle at the mo as at the mo ime limeted for space for majour rebuilds i ime off to to war and peac this year aswel as dorset so i can feed my craveing for exeplorers :cool2: nice to here yours started well

hello madrat dont know if this is of interest to u but the exeplorer i went to look at in doncaster had a pioneer drivers side engine cover hung on it to keep the weather out . the owener sed he got it from a scrap yard . the colour is a gd mach ... it coulandt be from yours . could it ?

only reason i can think if for haveing a crane at the rear of a vheical is so that if the vheical was toweing a trailer of some sort that the crane is then able to reach the trailer without un coupling but cant think of eny reason for it to be de mountable ?

rite ime there :cool2:

:rofl::rofl: my shrink said i should get a girl freind to take my mind off it i said i cant possiby ime HGV positive its a fair old pull up there dorset should be gd this year i might even make the trip to war and peace this year if i would be made wellcome in the scammell camp

yea i did read through the auction list rather a large collection to be disperssed

come on then how have the rest of u lot become scammell mad and for explorers ?

it got to me a long time a go a certain some one let me lose in a 240 tone contractor at the dorset last year and that pushed me over the ege to the I WANT ONE factor

its in fair condition there,s nothing left of the rear body apart from a gd bonfire orginal lockers removed a fair while ago . cab looks to be ok from a distance but its more aluminium than steel any bad patches have been pop riveted over with sheet steel and then painted which is ok but looks a bit redneck from the inside . it did have a radio cassette fitted in the cab i spose it was so the onwner could play a cassette of a meadows petrol when he was driving it :cool2:

the mk1 fillters where fitted by the current owner in a bid to make it look orginal dosent look gd dous it ?

quote=6 X 6;79353]Younggun, I'm sure you know what I mean, it's when normally cautious and sensible owners of restored heavy haulage tractors at GDSF, often out of their minds on cider, or reefers, or both, allow themselves to get carried away by taunts of "I bet it couldn't f**king pull that". They then find they are trying to tow some almighty trailer the size of Buckingham Palace with their 50 year old pride and joy, revving it's nuts off, just to provide a bit of sport for the crowd. was just won.dering wot was trying to be pulled . ime part of the Allelys gang .we have seem to have become the object of evey one in the playpens desire to move us be warnd this year where getting a bigger loco :cool2:

and wot may i ask was the certain crowd pleasing stunt at the dorset ? i seem to have missed this :???

of course i want a GREEN one will be easier to hide it from my parents that way hopefully will be veiwing a green one this week if work should take me in direction of doncaster

:shocked: yea ime came to the conclusion that it was this one

i allready spied that one :cool2: and certain family members with diffrent ideas have been delt with :n00b:

i was thinking along the same lines ive seen a few leyland 680s for sale lately i dont know how hard it would be to swap them over ime used to dealing with more modern vehicals in that department

spoke to the seller and he tells me it was re engined in the midlands by a showman shortly after it was released from the army in 1970 does anyone have any thoughts and a gardner powerd explorer ?

do u know how he has come to be gardner powerd ? by ministry of someone else has coverted it ?

yea i belive u :-\ i could put some greenham commen pics up but thers no way that ive done eny of this urban exeploring honest

humm am i detecting some 28dl in this post :-\

is it just me or had eny one else noticed the reocuring pattern with moterway accidents .... miles of tail backs to find a loan car sat on the hard soulder with normaly a big dent in one side and then u notice couple of hunred yards ahead ther be jhony foreighner missing his passenger side step :nono: british lorries goin overseas holland germany ect have to buy road tax for the relavant country of visit and for the duration of stay humm dont see a sytem like that here

thanks radiomike7 it is a hard job made harder by people not thinking and being inpaciant . near miss inccedents happen on a daily basis and sadly to say the worst offenders are other lory drivers and suit and tie offce bods dosent help that when the police stoped escorting abnormals that they did not anounce that escorting was now becouming privite i still get people shouting U SHOULD HAVE THE POLICE .. as for the fog lights totaly unnessasery and a nother populer thing these days displaying a blue light to a front of a vheical but no one seems to take notice of that neither

:tup:: scammell in doncaster me in shefeild it would be wrong to not go have a peek :cool2: