Oh, I didn’t even notice the truck.
Her body language is saying, ‘That’s a bit of a nice 5LV ERF rigid you’ve got there, chap!’
(Less of the ‘rigid’, he blushed…)
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FFS i quickly looked at it before i went out (for a few beers)? and genuinely didn’t notice the best part of the photo.I’m going to look for some pshyco therapy tomorrow when i’m no doubt in a queue somewhere.Are they expensive
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Should that comment be on the varifocal specs thread? 
Or… how many passes did the players in white make?
Road Ranger 15 speed I was merely relaying a clearly majority, but understandably erroneous, view held by many of those who have and are driving it.NOT my personal view of it.Having made it clear in my usual honest way that I’d never even seen one let alone driven one.It’s a range change box I obviously now know and agree that it’s a range change box precisely BECAUSE I know the bleedin difference between a range change and a splitter.
That obviously gets confused when the factory doesn’t clearly state that it’s a range change box which just happens to have two separate range controls equally obviously confusing many of those who do know it and drive it.
You’ve rightly said you’ve got personal issues with someone you’ve never met on the other side of the bleedin world all based on an irrational interpretation of information that I’ve provided myself.
I didn’t ‘fail’ any engineering apprenticeship.I left it part way through, at my own request, having passed with credit the required tests up to that point.Also having learnt a bit about what makes trucks work and how they are put together.The employer then happy to transfer me to where I wanted to be out on the road driving.Including test driving of vehicles they manufactured and where what I’d learn’t was useful.Passed class 2 and class 1 first time commendations for safe driving.During a career unfortunately curtailed by a medical failure.
Not any failure of my competence in the job which is obviously the irrational picture that you are trying to paint for whatever reason from the other side of the world.Obviously if I was the ignorant zb I’m being made out to be I would have just told you to Foxtrot Oscar back to your shed in the shade.
Which might add weight to my personal pro RR Crusader, anti TL12 Marathon, let alone AEC V8, case, if we were dealing with rational debate. Not irrational hate campaigns because someone dared to disagree with someone else.
Did the Essex 3 litre Consul/Granada follow the awful ohc Cortina Bewick ? hopefully not the opposite ?.At least new it would have been under warranty.
I can’t see further than the end of my nose ….. i’m going to be a politician
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No idea what you’re talking about.
Crusader, IMHO, would have been even better if it had adopted the Cummins-Fuller driveline. But Scammell and BRS got into bed with Rolls-Royce to keep the whole thing British, even though Shott in the UK was turning out more reliable Cummins engines.
No I never lifted the container off the platform as it was heavy enough to run on the brake roller testers at the MOT test. I had the four jack legs if I had ever to lift the container off but they were never used !
Yes I swapped the Cortina and a few ££ for the Consul GT and the Cortina hadn’t done many miles so it was OK ! The only problem I had with one V6 was in new Black Capri 3:0 which blew a piston after only about 6 months and Fords refused to fit a new engine and would only fit a Hepolite piston and restart a new 12 months warranty on the engine from the date of the repair ! Needless to say i wasn’t a happy camper but the engine seemed to perform OK after the repair but I didn’t keep the Capri much longer and sold it on .
You’ve got the old brain cell working RR and I did buy a Standardbred Pacer ( horse) from a consortium of three owners , two Farmers and Trevor back in 86/87, the horse was called Brilliant Yankee and he was 100% American bred. Apparently Trevor trained and raced the horse and had a one third share but there was disagreement with the the farmers so I was offered the horse which I liked the look of so I bought him one night after racing finished at York Raceway. Well the horse turned out to be an absolute gentleman and the two Girl/Lady grooms that worked for me absolutely loved this horse . I won a couple of big races with him one being at Appleby where he run at 8 to 1 and me and our Blacksmith (Great family friend) cleaned a Scotch Bookie out plus the father of the girl that drove Brilliant Yankee also had £100 on at 8 to one !However the horse was so intermittent there was obviously some serious undiagnosed medical problem as to all appearances he was 100% in every respect. So I took him down to Liverpool Veterinary college and they gave him all kinds of tests even operating on his throat and airways but to no avail . He used to fly out of the starting gate at a race and lead by a distance then would just start slowing down as if he had hit a brickwall. I would run him one our own track and when he slowed I even used an electric cattle prod on him but even that didn’t “help” so there was something very seriously wrong so one day I “blew” and said thats it he’s gone ! and I sold him to some wise guys who thought they knew what was wrong and how to put it right ! Oh ! dear they soon found out otherwise ! The two Girls that worked for me were in tears when he went but I’d wasted enough time and energy on him ! but I can say that the one big win at Appleby more than got me the money back that I had paid Trevor and the two farmers ! .
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I was specifically referring to TL12 Marathon and AEC V8 which seemed to kick off the witch hunt after Gingerfold and followers took offence with extreme prejudice.RR Eagle being next best thing if not putting a 14 litre Cummins in it.Bearing in mind my personal reasoning as to why ( in my personal opinion only ) AEC got it, catastrophically for Leyland’s truck division, wrong.Which I won’t open up again.
As for the Detroit option Friderici seemed happy enough to take it across the Middle East.
Ironically Bewick there were people in the trade making a good living out of converting MK3 Cortinas back to the old pushrod cross flow.In addition to converting all types of Cortinas and V4 Transits and Corsairs to Essex V6’s.
In other news, Border crossings. Noraly (Itchy Boots) crosses the border between Kyrgyzstan and China. I know a lot of the old hands here had problems with border crossings, but what about a queue of wagons 25km long?
It seems that China exports all sorts (cars, hi-tech, machinery) to or via Kyrgyzstan, but I don’t know much more than that.
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Many second-hand trucks imported from Western Europe queuing!
That Capri lasted while Feb 1991 Dennis .
@carryfast Don’t wreck another thread, take it here.
- I was not part of any witch-hunt.
- I was not part of your antler locking with Gingerfold.
- I agree, and agreed at the time that in UK, at least, RR Eagle was probably the next best thing, if Cummins not available.
- I never got involved with the AEC internal politics arguments because I don’t know enough about it.
- Fair comment that Friderici seemed happy with Detroit. Do we know that his drivers were too? Friderici also put Caterpillar / Fuller drivelines in his dozens of LHD Foden 4000s.
Good morning CF. I understood your post.
The topography reminded me rather of the Turkish / Syria border at Cilvegozu / Bab al Hawa.