Phew! It’s a joy to get back to the West Country in this thread after all the madness out there!
You are dead right, Saviem, a delight of a truck to drive. I had an F12 later and, although bigger cab, it wasn’t half the motor the F89 was. The cross-cab access was a bit restricted but I have had worse. I did a trip on Grangewood to Romania with a subbies Kenworth K100 complete with screaming but powerless GM Diesel. On that you had to stand on the drivers seat in order to go mountaineering over a vast, red hot, plastic covered engine box - careful you didn’t catch the American pull-out handbrake control - in order to get into the admittedly huge bunk with plastic covered mattress on which, in hot weather, you slid around like a fish on a frying pan. What an absolute heap of scrap! It needed more than a case of Bollinger to make that acceptable.
David