Anyone know whos it is etc etc?
yes please send to DORTMUND Germany asap thats for me
nice picture thanks a lot marcustandy,any more hidden away,
I think I`ve found the owner…?
Eric’s memory failed to Focus on lost car
A car owner was delighted to be reunited with his cherished vehicle — seven months after he had forgotten where he parked it.
Plane enthusiast Eric King, 57, was amazed when a car disposal unit discovered his Ford Focus in Blackbird Drive, Moreton Hall, Bury St Edmunds, where he had left it in February.
He said: "I was as pleased as punch when they called me, I thought someone up there must like me.
“I called the car Lucky in the end.”
Mr King, of Milton Keynes, had parked the car in the residential cul-de-sac while visiting Rougham Airfield at the start of the year.
But when it was time to drive home, he could not find it.
“I stopped off here on the way back from an air show in Norwich and had a look at the planes,” he said.
“Then I parked the car and walked into the town centre but when I came back, I could not find it.”
After reporting the missing vehicle to the police and the council, Mr King kept returning to Bury St Edmunds in the desperate hope of finding his car.
But despite trawling the area more than 10 times, Mr King could not unearth his evasive motor.
“I must have stayed at every bed and breakfast in Bury, I just thought I would find it,” he said.
“I walked all over the place to find it, I just kept on coming back.”
But it was when a resident of Blackbird Drive took in a parcel for a neighbour that they both realised the car, which had stood there for months, did not belong to either of them and reported it as abandoned to St Edmundsbury Borough Council.
Mr King, who has lost more than two stones in weight due to the walking he has been doing trying to find his car, said: "I had almost given up hope of finding her again but I just knew she was here.
“For the next air show at Rougham I will just have to make sure I park somewhere I know I can find again.”
Andrew Harvey, enforcement officer for waste management at the borough council, told Mr King the good news after he overheard a conversation about the abandoned car.
He said: "I was speaking to my colleague about a potentially abandoned car on Friday morning when it started ringing alarm bells as I remembered we had had an inquiry about a vehicle that matched the description in February.
“It is good to reunite someone with their car rather than towing it away to be crushed.”
15 September 2006
its a volvo vn either 660 0r 770 model made for the american market.there was an article on it in one of thye trucking mags and the guy does big digital screens at shows and concerts
Well i was at the embankment last Monday morning…
trucknetuk.com/phpBB2viewtopic.php?t=19578
Your link didn’t work for me. The ‘repaired’ version is below.
cheers mate, obviously it wasnt me in the Volvo, but i was down there Monday, i didnt see it thou.
I’ve no idea who’s it is but what is for sure is that if that’s a 40 foot trailer behind him then he’s so far over length that it’s not even funny!
If that’s the one I saw at last years Truckfest then yes the Bloke does the big screen things at concerts etc. The BBC were using it for live broadcasts etc.
I was featured in one of the Truck & Driver mags.
I’ll see if I stil have it.
nice though eh ?
Lookes like a banged up fridge on the back…? Also …Dutch plates…?
harry:
Lookes like a banged up fridge on the back…? Also …Dutch plates…?
It had UK ‘L’ reg plates on it. It looked like there was an area cordoned-off at the side of trailer (see the red & white tape on the tree) so maybe it had lift up sides, as like an exhibition unit.
That a Volvo VNL770 US spec…I would love to know who drives it cos I drive a very similar one…
Loads of room in the big cab,very hard to get back into a Euro truck after driving it
Heres another couple of pics of it
vipex.co.uk/gallery/big%20sc … ed%201.JPG
vipex.co.uk/gallery/big%20sc … ed%202.JPG
vipex.co.uk/gallery/big%20sc … ed%203.JPG
vipex.co.uk/gallery/big%20sc … en%202.JPG
vipex.co.uk/gallery/big%20sc … en%206.JPG
There are more in the Vipex Gallery but these are probably the best for the truck
Twincam16:
That a Volvo VNL770 US spec…I would love to know who drives it cos I drive a very similar one…
Loads of room in the big cab,very hard to get back into a Euro truck after driving it
That is my old truck and race transporter!!!
Where was photo taken?
Looks very much like a European Truck Stop/Service Area,
Thats me fiddling with access door at rear,
Trailer was built to take 8 Triumph’s to Ohio USA in June 2002, pulled by my Magnum
I do not have many pics of truck despite running all over Ireland UK & Europe for a few years,
Truck came to a sticky end one day just outside of Castleblaney, Co Monaghan, Ireland, i was on way back from Switzerland and had time on my hands, so headed off to Truck Wash on border, car came at me just over white line on a bend so i dropped front left wheel into dirt, Bad move, was a 9 inch drop and a concrete gully hidden in grass, took out spring ‘U’ bolts and axle folded in (a known problem with VN’s, U bolt was far too weak)
No Brakes, ABS had kicked in, No Steering, all happened at about 50 KPH but damage was severe, i hit a gateway to a house, man was building stonework around an upended piece of railway line,
photo’s to follow,
Road was closed for 3 hrs to enable recovery, unit was a mess, trailer was fine and all 6 priceless classic cars survived without damage, delivered next day with my Merc Actross
Cars loading in Basle Airport Switzerland en route to Ireland, Volvo VNL770 didnt make it,
Twincam16:
Heres another couple of pics of it
Photo taken just outside Dundalk, Co Louth Ireland, at MacLifts yard, no idea who took photo, cab has late graphics on doors so must be just before ill Fated Swiss trip,