Rain stopped play, so got five minuets to post.
Car transporters, here are a few, plus one ugly wagon that I wouldn’t have driven…ever… 
Hi Fergie, MAN F8 unterfloor with Ford Granada cab.
Oily
oiltreader:
Hi Fergie, MAN F8 unterfloor with Ford Granada cab.
Oily
Cheers Oily…however, it could have been a Ferrari or a Rolls Royce, still wouldn’t have the driven the ugly sodden thing… 
Got some pride you know … 
Fergie47:
Rain stopped play, so got five minuets to post.Car transporters, here are a few, plus one ugly wagon that I wouldn’t have driven…ever…
I’ve been going through those pic’s couple of times now, can’t seem to find that ugly one mate… 
Don’t know 'em to well, but apart from that…er…“special” vehicle (ahum) they seem to run some proper wagons.
I remember seeing the DeRooy drawbar that wasn’t a drawbar, it was on a 2500 Daf chassis, the bits that stuck out when it turned were ridiculous.
The French were pretty brutal with the tin snips in the pre 13.6m legal maximum trailer length limit days too. Lots of G290 Renaults going around that had the bit of the cab with the small window behind the door removed, WH Bowker chopped some F10s up the same way, how anybody over 5ft could get comfortable was beyond me.
pv83:
Fergie47:
Rain stopped play, so got five minuets to post.Car transporters, here are a few, plus one ugly wagon that I wouldn’t have driven…ever…
I’ve been going through those pic’s couple of times now, can’t seem to find that ugly one mate…
Don’t know 'em to well, but apart from that…er…“special” vehicle (ahum) they seem to run some proper wagons.
Nice pics Patrick…good find…
Just wondering, seeing some of those abortions, has anyone actually refused to drive a lorry that the boss asked you to drive…■■
Fergie47:
Just wondering, seeing some of those abortions, has anyone actually refused to drive a lorry that the boss asked you to drive…■■
Waste of a good Granada not to mention a death trap for who ever was mug enough to drive it.
Yes a Renault G290 which the guvnor actually backed me against the fleet engineer. 
Which the good news was that it met it’s end off of a motorway junction bridge but the bad news took the unfortunate driver with it. 
pv83:
Fergie47:
Rain stopped play, so got five minuets to post.Car transporters, here are a few, plus one ugly wagon that I wouldn’t have driven…ever…
I’ve been going through those pic’s couple of times now, can’t seem to find that ugly one mate…
Don’t know 'em to well, but apart from that…er…“special” vehicle (ahum) they seem to run some proper wagons.
I read a while back that the MAN/Granada outfit was used on ferries, with the cab underneath the skeletal frame for container traffic.
Afterthought…it may have been a Bussing with underslung engine I was thinking of for the container work, I’ve posted pics in the past, must have another look.
Oily
Fergie47:
pv83:
Fergie47:
Rain stopped play, so got five minuets to post.Car transporters, here are a few, plus one ugly wagon that I wouldn’t have driven…ever…
I’ve been going through those pic’s couple of times now, can’t seem to find that ugly one mate…
Don’t know 'em to well, but apart from that…er…“special” vehicle (ahum) they seem to run some proper wagons.Nice pics Patrick…good find…
Just wondering, seeing some of those abortions, has anyone actually refused to drive a lorry that the boss asked you to drive…■■
I did once refused to sleep in a cab, the lorrie itself wasn’t the problem this being a MAN with a large cab, it was just because the cab was very untidy to put it mildly… One does wonder how other people do seem to get a interior as dirty, sticky and smelly like that
Took the guv some convincing that I wasn’t going to spend the night in that ■■■■■ hole, but after he himself inspected the cab, I was on the clear 
Did tramp though in a flat roofed Volvo FM (see pic), fortunately it was just for a week…
oiltreader:
pv83:
Fergie47:
Rain stopped play, so got five minuets to post.Car transporters, here are a few, plus one ugly wagon that I wouldn’t have driven…ever…
I’ve been going through those pic’s couple of times now, can’t seem to find that ugly one mate…
Don’t know 'em to well, but apart from that…er…“special” vehicle (ahum) they seem to run some proper wagons.I read a while back that the MAN/Granada outfit was used on ferries, with the cab underneath the skeletal frame for container traffic.
Afterthought…it may have been a Bussing with underslung engine I was thinking of for the container work, I’ve posted pics in the past, must have another look.
Oily
I reckoned that thing was a one off…? Got me thinking though, didn’t they used similar contraptions at the British Steel works…?
Cheers, Patrick
newmercman:
I remember seeing the DeRooy drawbar that wasn’t a drawbar, it was on a 2500 Daf chassis, the bits that stuck out when it turned were ridiculous.The French were pretty brutal with the tin snips in the pre 13.6m legal maximum trailer length limit days too. Lots of G290 Renaults going around that had the bit of the cab with the small window behind the door removed, WH Bowker chopped some F10s up the same way, how anybody over 5ft could get comfortable was beyond me.
Saw some footage of it some years ago, based upon a DAF 95 chassis? As you’ve said, the bit’s that stuck out were enormous, wonder how that got a MOT clearance in the first place…
There used to be an Auwarter or Neoplan one round the Munich area in the late '80s .Definitely not a car transporter… steel,maybe.Dangerous I would have thought,but that sort of construction may have seemed like the way to go then.
Those day-cabs with a pod on the roof were bloody awful to live in. Here’s one I tramped round Europe in for several months, including Poland. Robert
Found some more examples of those shortened day cabs fitted with a sleeping pod, it seems that only the cloggies used those shortened ones…?
Thanks for putting the picture of my old 14.192 Man that I spent 7 1/2 years in. I used to be away from home for three weeks at a time
(home being Spain) where I still live. That sleeper was about the same size as a double coffin and my wife who sometimes accompanied me agreed, but I slept like a babe in it. Westermann were hard drivers and expected you to load on a Wednesday evening and be in Valencia Friday evening between 1800 and 2200 hours. Not bad going with only 192 horses to pull you along . I won’t tell you how I did it but you can imagine !!
Peter
I dont know who owned the bonneted Scania with a Transcon on the back but note it is on trade plates being 198 FX , my trade plates were 197 FX
peterpallet:
Thanks for putting the picture of my old 14.192 Man that I spent 7 1/2 years in. I used to be away from home for three weeks at a time
(home being Spain) where I still live. That sleeper was about the same size as a double coffin and my wife who sometimes accompanied me agreed, but I slept like a babe in it. Westermann were hard drivers and expected you to load on a Wednesday evening and be in Valencia Friday evening between 1800 and 2200 hours. Not bad going with only 192 horses to pull you along . I won’t tell you how I did it but you can imagine !!Peter
You’re right there! I did astonishing mileage in it - I think probably the highest average weekly mileage I ever did with lorries. It would hold 70mph for ever on the flat but the merest hint of a hill stymied the old girl. That horrible ZF 12-speed 'box didn’t help. It used to take for ever climbing the 34 kms out of Koblenz! It was scrapped shortly after my time in it. Its best feature was that it had LHD. The pic below was delivery near Larne in N. Ireland. Robert
