Sorry Routier,just read your post, I never did any continental but a mate of mine worked for Prestage in Birmingham and he used to go out to the Middle East
to bring back broken down and abandoned trucks this was just about at the end of the ME boom years but I would love to have tried it.
I remember moving on to an F88 from a Guy big J,it was like going from a model T to a Porsche,we also had one of the first Ford Transcontis’s in the area but the boss’s blue eyed boy got that.
I remember the first volvo’s and Scania;s coming to the UK it isnt hard to see why the uk manufacturers couldn’t compete.
I’ve just finished going thro the site,some great pics,very good site.
regards derek