if I remember correctly he bought it second hand from bush board in Wellingborough on the understanding it was a D800 but turned out to be a D600 , con rod went through the piston, had the piston knocking around for years.
DBY only did the single trip to st tropez, after that he used all D600 (SRP343G-SRP344G and latterly WRP442J) on mobile homes , all of them were tinkered with , WRP442 would go past Merc 0303 coaches on the flat empty with ease, pretty quick.
But they were only any good on mobile homes , couldn’t hack the parcels trunking to forton services from finedon so got replaced by Guy Big J’s eventually
he went over to drawbars later on , this one started off with a 360 + 4 speed ended up with a 380 cu engine and 6 speed box
