wish i had a cb to use at work.
Deisel dan, I have korky eye ball card in my album, it is on my first page, that must have been a long time ago, and I remember the queakies, one used to say he was queaky clean, they just like doing wind ups. 
diesel dan:
ref big bopper.
hi steve, i know your handle, do you remember KORKY from finedon,and all the rats from thrapston. ie road rat ,swamp rat, bug rat, etc.
cheers diesel
Korky was the cb name for finedon, then i think it was ron roberts used the name and set up Korky taxis. 10-4
did you ever go to any of the cb club meets? all of our trucks over here have cb,s in them all AM cobras with twin sticks on the mirror arms similar to what we called a firestick, the best thing is all the cb,s have a built in swr meter so there is no need to have a seperate one, catch ya on the flip c’mon 10-10 from the bopper!
hi steve,
as you know in the early eighties we all had different codes for different places . KORKY is /was richard simmons who i believe you know.hence finedon became KORKY TOWN.thapston was rat town etc.we were members of a custum car club from wellingborough and we all had cb,s.some i remember were BANANA,GHOSTRIDER,PINEAPPLE,FLYING ANT,PINK ELEPHANT,PLUTO,SHOESTING,ETC.we were members of wellingborough breakers club and had regular meetings at the merry miller and the nags head.sunday nights we would all drive over to northamton to listen to the BEAR transmiting the latest cb news.happy days.
cheers diesel dan
mate of mine was called "the roadstone cowboy " ran a tipper truck. next guy was called "dirty harry " did nt have a big gun just stank abit.
Well fellows I have just looked at the eyeball card, and it has Korky printed, and a cat sat on a motorbike with a aerial on the back.
diesel dan:
hi steve,
as you know in the early eighties we all had different codes for different places . KORKY is /was richard simmons who i believe you know.hence finedon became KORKY TOWN.thapston was rat town etc.we were members of a custum car club from wellingborough and we all had cb,s.some i remember were BANANA,GHOSTRIDER,PINEAPPLE,FLYING ANT,PINK ELEPHANT,PLUTO,SHOESTING,ETC.we were members of wellingborough breakers club and had regular meetings at the merry miller and the nags head.sunday nights we would all drive over to northamton to listen to the BEAR transmiting the latest cb news.happy days.
cheers diesel dan
hey dan now you have me thinking back, yes of course i know rich or titch as we called him he was amongst the first with cb’s and had a part in the cb shop of mill road with dominic ?, i lived next door to him for a few years and was at school with amanda his wife, and yes he did call himself korky but korky taxis was also started up at that time. the bear from northampton and the club meets i used to go to the one at the dog and duck, so if you were into custom cars do you know kelly gray who moved to the states, he was mates with rich when he had his pop, they tell me rich now has the tire place at sidegate works? what about spiderman from korky?? 10-10
Hi,
Does anyone remember the very first (illegal 
) cb’s in the UK on am, they were only 23 channels with no digital display, you turned a knob with a cut out in it to display the channel number. You could go miles before you found anyone to talk to
Guess its a bit like that today
in the 80s my brother in law had a static caravan at clacton and would go there every w,end he had a lot of mates on this very big caravan site and to communicate with each mainly to tell each other when to go to the pub they all put cb radios in their caravans
Trev_H:
Hi,Does anyone remember the very first (illegal
Guess its a bit like that today
You mean the old AM CB’s … there are all we have over here. The legal CB’s in the UK are all FM and in my opinion far better. FM radio waves follow the contour of the earth so if it was quiet on whatever chanel you were on you could talk to people hundreds of miles away, many was the time I would be on the M 62 on Saddleworth moor and chatting to a friend at Leicester Forrest services.
AM radio waves travel in straight lines so hills and the earths curve meant the signal couldnt be heard very far away unless it skipped of the atmosphere, I still get the skip over here regularly and listen to some driver in Texas.
hi
you got a copy on me big bopper ,cmon,
korky has brookside garage now, known as master tyres.(or tires to you).yes i knew kelly he had the thames van.how about kev nicholls from finedon, he now lives in long beach ca. i also used to go to the dog and duck meets.
heres a pict of my van at the time do you recognise it. 
10 10 good buddy, all the blue skys and green lights.we gone .
cheers diesel dan
hi pat,
sorry pat cant agree with you about f m being better,used to get miles longer copys on am than fm.dont you remember we used to loose holsten within about a hundred yards on fm.
cheers micktrick/
Aunty Mary any day I had a sommercamp ft7b homebase 13000klicks it was like picking up the phone you could thalk to people for ages all around the world
the kids spoiled things as they would bleed over in comeing signals with their 1…9 a copy.
John
diesel dan:
hi pat,
sorry pat cant agree with you about f m being better,used to get miles longer copys on am than fm.dont you remember we used to loose holsten within about a hundred yards on fm.
cheers micktrick/
We used to loose Holsten on purpose afteer 50 feet, I hated the ■■■■■
We would say “Who’s dead keying ?” when we ran with him and watch him rip his CB apart trying to figure out why we couldnt hear him, it always resulted in his CB being out of action all night thankfully
hi plasticbag.
we should be very gratefull to holsten, just think of all those c b,s he mucked up trying to get more paaands out of them for the local wallys, mind you, his rig always sent mine into the strawberry patch, (looking back, wer,nt the cb lingo a load of tosh) 
cheers diesel.
10/4 Good buddy, can you give me a 10/15 Northbound Deisel Dan is it green and clean to Shoe town, the Bears are on the prowl just below J12 at the feed bag, so 10/10 good buddy, keep the lipstick off your dipstick Curlytop homeward bound. 
hey, you got yer ears on curly top,this heres diesel dan and my seat covers iceberg and daydreamer,we,re headed out of shoe town on the 45 to the choke and puke,you care to take a nose bag with us good buddy, cmon, all the golden numbers 10 10 we down we gone,
(what a load of bo…cks was,nt it)
It was DD, but we had some good laughs and some good wind ups, and it was very good making the miles go by, my wind up handle was " Puff Pastry" I rise to anything my darling! Ps I have a eyeball card from Daydreamer?
diesel dan:
hey, you got yer ears on curly top,this heres diesel dan and my seat covers iceberg and daydreamer,we,re headed out of shoe town on the 45 to the choke and puke,you care to take a nose bag with us good buddy, cmon, all the golden numbers 10 10 we down we gone,
(what a load of bo…cks was,nt it)
diesel dan:
hi plasticbag.
we should be very gratefull to holsten, just think of all those c b,s he mucked up trying to get more paaands out of them for the local wallys,
cheers diesel.
I remember going through London at night and counting the “Am I gettin art’s ?”
“Yeah … youre gettin art”
“Cheers, ar many parnds am I pushin ya ?”
“Right in the strawberry patch, radio 12”
“Dont be stupid”
“You started it”
Pat if you have time take a look at Cb eyeball cards and crazy truckers, I brought that back from when I done it in 2008, I thought it was amusing period of my life on the road. 