chambers101

Good to see vehicles doing what they were built for. Thats an awesome beast.I remember the one that attended Beltring. In 2000 it rolled over on the off road course.

Welcome to the forum cb2002. My fathers first military vehicle was a Stolly. For someone completly new to the hobby it would probably not be the best choice of vehicle to start with unless you were mechanicly famliar wth it. My Dad suffered a lot of ups and downs with the Stalwart but over time he began to learn how to right those problems. Lastly i must add if you do take the plunge and get one, you would love it...while it works.

If there was a law on that then they didn't know. My dads friend only went in there to sleep i think.

Yes our 101 is in the background in one of the pics.

Funny story about a Reo as that didn't work when a friend got his stuck in the thames at Chiswick in 1997. He was delivering bricks for a friend on a job on a bit of river where there is an island called Chiswick eyt (i think). Our friend got stuck in the mud on the river bank and couldn't get it out and so he had to leave it there. Later on the high tide came and it got fully submerged. After a few phonecalls the whole club was involved and there were several rescue attempts. The police were called aswell. In the end i think it was there for a few days and eventually got recovered by Mario at low tide. It had all water and silky mud n crap on it. But it still runs to this day.

I've always liked 1 tons and it's definatly a vehicle in my top 5 mv garage.

To be honest i think my Mum will have to sell ours soon. I mean i would hate to see it go but it's a far to big job for just us to do. And on the transporting thing my dad drove his about 140 miles (i think) up the M40/M6 with a big army living trailer in the middle of the night and someone nearly choked in the trailer from the fumes. And that was to get from Heathrow to Weston Park offroad show. And after that he drove it back without any mechanical faults. Not many stolly owners would do that but then again my dad was mad. My point is the whole drivetrain can last quite a while wthout breaking.When running sweetly i think a Stalwart is probably one the nicest sounding vehicles out there.

I think it's a French Panhard armoured car. I think the Irish army used them.

I see you baby shakin that face shakin that face.

Cor the chick on the left is a scorcher. I that your own club museum?.

The sharp left was because coming over the hill the was a hole on the other side and my mum didn't see it and we just veered to the left. Oh and the loke with desert painted ferret lives about 10 mins up the road from me and i think he attends the west london mvt group meeting. Don't really know him.

By the time the driver realised there were fat people on board it was to late.

That might have been a different time. On the video i have it managed to cross the Solent but it got stuck or broke down on a beach. Towing it with the Centaur halftrack didn't work and just proceded the tracks to slide off (i think they slid off a bit) so they winched it with a Land Rover up the beach and then off they went into the island.

Went and had a good day out. Off road course was fun though bent a bit of the rollbar on a tree. Despite that my mum performed brilliantly on the off road course apart from one small hill with a rut on the other side. The 101 never missed a beat. All in all a top day out.

I have no idea about it's history. It had a crane on it and on the side it said it had worked for a timber company.

Went round the course in 06. My mum is great driving the 101. The water should be a laugh. Oh n thanks for the offer of the ride.

Thats a gorgeous lookin bike. Brilliant restoration Baz.

Wey heyy another Land Rover nut. Welcome to the forum

Pops had a Stolly with a crane. He first tried his in the Thames at Twickenham slipway. Unfortunatly he only had one of the jets so he could'nt steer anywhere but i think the test was only to see if it could float. It's just a shame he died before he finished it. On another note one of my dad's friends Swam a Stolly from Hayling island to the I.O.W in 94 or 95.

Me and my mum came for a look in the car. Wish we'd have brought the 101 though. Nice Series 1, looked through the windows n everything. Ace Cafe is awesome. Think im gonna go up there a lot when i get a car.

I presume it's still in i think it's harris's scrapyard in Ashington. It may just be visible through the hedge. Not seen it myself since Dec 05.

May pop in and have a look.

If i found the cd i could put the pics of the Salamander my dad bought before he died. When i was at Shoreham Cement works last time there was loads of old fire engine kit there.

No wasn't us must have been someone else. Maybe one of the Adams familys.

Watched and it was really intresting . Iv'e never really known about the last day of the war and i must say i've learnt something new from that program.