What cab appeals to you for styling?
to start off
Of the '60s cabs you’ve listed, that AEC mkV Park Royal cab takes some beating on the aesthetic front. For me, the most pleasing-looking cabs after that were the MAN F8 cab, the Motor Panels Scammell Crusader cab, the Volvo F16 GT cab, the ERF E-series cab and the DAF 95 Super-space cab. And here is an example of each of those, to remind you. Robert 
Yer all blind. This is as close as it gets to a ten:
1, Scania 143 topline streamline
2, Volvo F89 with visor, roof rack and Kysor.
3, Volvo F16 Globetrotter.
4, Ford Transcontinental.
5, Volvo FH GTXL series 1.
6, Daf 28/33/3600 Space Cab.
7, Volvo F12 flat top.
8, Merc LP grossraum cab.
9, Leyland Beaver Ergo.
10, AEC mkV.
[zb]
anorak:
Yer all blind. This is as close as it gets to a ten:
0
Imagine living in those flats, and your boss turned up and said, “This is your new job- drive that all over Europe.” I would do just what I was told. At the end of every shift, I would wash it, then set up a folding chair, just so I could look at it.
That cab looked much better on a Ford Transcon chassis!
[zb]
anorak:
Yer all blind. This is as close as it gets to a ten:
0
Imagine living in those flats, and your boss turned up and said, “This is your new job- drive that all over Europe.” I would do just what I was told. At the end of every shift, I would wash it, then set up a folding chair, just so I could look at it.
Very eloquently put, ya Anorak! You’ve pretty-well sold it to me. It could do with a visor though. Interesting that I used to position my garden chair so that I could see my DAF 95, but I used to sit in the chair with the back of my head resting on the Actros’s grille - that’s about as much as I thought of it! Robert 
Scania Vabis LB76 with sleeper. No bloody Michelin men! Jim.
Hiya…park royal mk5 AEC (with twin headlights)
DAF 3300 space cab
MAN roadhause
ERF B series works sleeper
Volvo F 12 high top
ERF A series with jenning pod
F89
Scania 111 sleeper
Iam quoting looks not room or comfort.i always thought the a series ERF looked
like it was on the move when it was standing still
John
I don’t agree with anyone! It just shows that it takes all sorts to make a world, and personal taste is just that- personal. I daresay that early childhood influences shape the person- I guess I first started to look at things in about 1970, when brutalism was the architectural fashion, and everything else was straight-edged and unadorned. Throughout the 1970s, anything with a curve was old-fashioned, and objects with superfluous bits were “over-styled”, for example Yank cars. My favourite Berliet was typical of such thinking, as was this:
Belgian Bollekens cab on AEC Mandator tractor. In the early sixties a comfortable sleeping cab
I had two cabs which I really liked the Scammell Crusader and the Bussing both were very roomy but one was more comfortable 
P S there was a Bussing demonstrator in the mid 70s which a television fitted over the windscreen ( passenger side ) and I think Ellerpack bought it but I am unsure as to if it had the kitchen sink in it
Any cab that’s not steel suits me .
Dan Punchard:
Any cab that’s not steel suits me .
Ditto, though I did think that personally the Foden S40 was one of the better looking versions of the Motor Panels cab. Alas the interior wasn’t as good as the Big J etc but it is the outside that this thread is concerned with! The old BMC/Austin/Morris FF/FH cab was stylish for the time as well with its wraparound screen which was one of the largest windscreens fitted in a lorry at that period, and folk were concerned that it would shatter easily. Well they didn’t shatter, they just dropped out until they were modified with retaining tabs!!!
Pete.
[zb]
anorak:
I don’t agree with anyone! It just shows that it takes all sorts to make a world, and personal taste is just that- personal. I daresay that early childhood influences shape the person- I guess I first started to look at things in about 1970, when brutalism was the architectural fashion, and everything else was straight-edged and unadorned. Throughout the 1970s, anything with a curve was old-fashioned, and objects with superfluous bits were “over-styled”, for example Yank cars. My favourite Berliet was typical of such thinking, as was this:
0
they look better with the roof rack and ladders! 
what happened to the photo? 
The mk2 Leyland Ergomatic cab made it look a lot better that that wagon had a right to be! Stacks better that the mk1.
I have always liked the Marathon 2 cab with the big sleeper, also the Man Roadhaus
And at the risk of beefing banned I love the look of the big new Renault the tall one you can only get in lhd
Runs away to hide under a rock
carryfast-yeti:
[zb]
anorak:
I don’t agree with anyone! It just shows that it takes all sorts to make a world, and personal taste is just that- personal. I daresay that early childhood influences shape the person- I guess I first started to look at things in about 1970, when brutalism was the architectural fashion, and everything else was straight-edged and unadorned. Throughout the 1970s, anything with a curve was old-fashioned, and objects with superfluous bits were “over-styled”, for example Yank cars. My favourite Berliet was typical of such thinking, as was this:they look better with the roof rack and ladders!
Again, I must differ. I think the shape of the thing is paramount, so that any added-on bits detract from it. I think the 110’s visor looks OK, but any other stuff stuck on the cab makes it worse, IMO. I like the look of them with all the paraphernalia of intrnational transport (form follows function, after all), but the stylist’s original, idealistic vision is what appeals to me. I think. Here’s some roofrack-and-ladders ■■■■, anyway:
My favourite cab design was the Dodge 500 series, Ghia came up with a unique exterior and although the ■■■■■■■ V8 gave a lot of troubles I loved it’s sound.
Does anyone know of a ■■■■■■■ V8 still running ?
