With working nights I usually get to see them in full “glory” so to speak and some of them border on insane. More little LEDs on every flat panel than an entire Max Power meet, 20 odd spot lamps and chromed everything. Like I said if their happy then fair enough, but they must be seriously scared of the dark
One set of spots, either a roof bar or a Kelsa Eurobar, the red LEDs down the back of the cab and a decent exhaust if it’s got a good donkey in it, can make a very tidy looking motor, and also help in safety and vision.
i never got the rebel flags and miniscarves personally, however i think a carefully blinged truck inside and out looks far superior to a plain one. for some reason ive always liked to see a air gun hung up, n think they look particularly smart in a scania?? dont as me why
joer580:
i never got the rebel flags and miniscarves personally, however i think a carefully blinged truck inside and out looks far superior to a plain one. for some reason ive always liked to see a air gun hung up, n think they look particularly smart in a scania?? dont as me why
Countrywide and R.Addams know how to do it. Is R Gill still going? They used to have the “Legends of…” wagons at Truckfest.
Suedehead:
Ribbons hanging from the mirrors. . . oh and can holders fixed to the mirror arms.
Did doing that actually keep mirrors clean, back in the day?
yes they did work and in wet weather kept them clear although when heated mirrors came in they looked naff
im a name plate sinner but i laugh at the “if the cabs a rockin dont come knockin” signs and the 500 horses sign shakes head
re: toowise: OH HECK!!
i remember my dad used to put the ribbons on the mirrors of an old foden he drove,n i used to wonder wat the hell they were for, one day when he explained to me and from then on i kept an intrested eye on them throughout the week away, n they did actually do a job!
Muckaway:
FG Bond had some of those ERF 4wheelers blinged up.
Velvet curtains and frillies in a day cab - do they sleep across the seats?
As a kid I used to go with Dad to ARC Chipping Sodbury and you’d see them polishing whilst waiting to load asphalt. Waiting to tip it aswell they’d be cleaning. Fair play, I bet Bonds’ didn’t have trouble selling them.
Muckaway:
FG Bond had some of those ERF 4wheelers blinged up.
Velvet curtains and frillies in a day cab - do they sleep across the seats?
As a kid I used to go with Dad to ARC Chipping Sodbury and you’d see them polishing whilst waiting to load asphalt. Waiting to tip it aswell they’d be cleaning. Fair play, I bet Bonds’ didn’t have trouble selling them.
Muckaway:
FG Bond had some of those ERF 4wheelers blinged up.
Velvet curtains and frillies in a day cab - do they sleep across the seats?
As a kid I used to go with Dad to ARC Chipping Sodbury and you’d see them polishing whilst waiting to load asphalt. Waiting to tip it aswell they’d be cleaning. Fair play, I bet Bonds’ didn’t have trouble selling them.
Have they gone under?
Not to my knowledge; Quite a few of their tippers are in Hanson livery (old blue).
I thought I’d bump this thread after we were discussing the tat in some of the lorries that come into our quarry.
Frilly curtains across side windows, “those led signs on the back wall” and dreamcatchers were most talked about.
One of our dumptruck drivers asked why drivers have flags, scarves with the make of truck they drive written on them, when it’s written on the grille? He added he drives a Bell- and the last thing he wants is to be reminded (they’re the Axor of dumptrucks).
There’s nothing new under the sun, I can remember in 1951 my old man having a big rubber sucker with flags in stuck on the outside of the screen of his Bedford O type for the Festival of Britain. Other essential accessories were a pair of orange plastic discs with suckers that stuck on the headlights to help you see in the fog, I think they worked by making the already dim headlights even dimmer, so no chance of dazzle! Most important, aspirin bottle on the end of a bit of string to get petrol out of the tank for his lighter! My big brother had a portable radio hanging on the back of the cab of his Austin Loadstar with an aerial clipped on the passenger window, popular accessory in the fifties. By the way, if anyone’s got one of those 1951 suckers with the flags in, it’d go well on my Albion!
Bernard
i drive the xf 105 ssc which has a cracking large rubber non slip flat area on top of the dash,got passed by another last week that had a £100"s worth of centre table covering this area resulting in a smaller rubber non slip flat area but now with restricted view and the chance of a PG9.What a ■■■ !!!
