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updated version of Mr Anoraks favorite cheers benkkuVery smart- the van Eck cab certainly makes the Leyland look like a vehicle which would travel the length of Europe- more so than the LAD cab, for sure! However, having read more about the vehicles of the 1950s and '60s (thanks mainly to the memories of TNUK contributors- thanks chaps), my “ideal 1960 lorry” might now be a bit different:
- Plenty of people have mentioned the unreliability of the Power Plus Leyland 680 engine. I’ll have a Gardner 8LW instead, please.
- The van Eck cab is a bit spartan inside, judging by the photos of Herr Schmidt’s example. I have since discovered that the Paul & van Weelde cab, of the same era, had an oiled hardwood and leather interior. I want that instead!
- I don’t know whose chassis to use. Maybe I could do worse than to ask a Finn!
I think I’d have gone for the Bollekens (Belgian) sleeper-cabbed LHD AEC Mandator with the 2AV690 lump(@ 192 bhp) and AEC 6-speed constant-mesh 'box, in the '60s. Just a hunch, you understand! Robert