killsville:
240 Gardner:
Well, at least ungainly, if not actually ugly was the Atkinson Viewline (see the pics section for one under the title "Big A, Proper Wagon). I owned the one in the pics for 19 years and loved it to bits, but could never claim that it was beautiful to look at!Still, as my Mother says “A beetle is beautiful in the eyes of its mother!”
Enough people took a photo of it so they must think it was beautiful!
Me included - so here is one of said photographs! (With 240 Gardner at the wheel!)
killsville:
killsville:
240 Gardner:
Well, at least ungainly, if not actually ugly was the Atkinson Viewline (see the pics section for one under the title "Big A, Proper Wagon). I owned the one in the pics for 19 years and loved it to bits, but could never claim that it was beautiful to look at!Still, as my Mother says “A beetle is beautiful in the eyes of its mother!”
Enough people took a photo of it so they must think it was beautiful!
Me included - so here is one of said photographs! (With 240 Gardner at the wheel!)
When 240 Gardner had hair…
Thank you for that! Perhaps they took the photos because they just couldn’t believe their eyes!! I always thought that it was a wonderful wagon, and actually very comfortable to drive. I still regret not being able to keep it.
240 Gardner:
[ I always thought that it was a wonderful wagon, and actually very comfortable to drive. .
240,
I agree with you. I thought it was a beautiful wagon too. Those mirror arms - what a dream after the shakey, spindly things we’d been used to. The only problem was the big screen. Sweatbox in summer (nothing a good Magnum-type blind and aircon couldn’t have sorted) and freezing in winter (nothing a decent heater and night heater couldn’t have sorted) but a beautiful, safe, view.
Now that motor (with mods as listed above and decent sleeper) would have been up there with my all time greats.
To get back on thread (because the VL was never ugly) what an extraordinary thing that KW was, but to fit an extra seat and then a sleeper behind, what on earth was the point in that? Maybe Alexx has a clue. Come to think of it what ever is the point of half cabs, except for cranes or long loads (on rigids of course!)?
Anyone have pics of that weird Foden, originally for cranes but later for general use, with the cab so low down that the roof was level with the loadbed? Ugly!
Or that monstrosity from NI, Dennison I think, which looked as if it had been welded together with completely flat panels.
Salut, David.
240 Gardner:
When 240 Gardner had hair…
And diesel was about 20p a litre cheaper 
I have to add my thoughts on the ugliest truck, but search as I may. I cannot find a photo anywhere 
Someone help me 
It was the home made truck, built and operated by LOHEAC in France on tanker work.
These trucks were built from volvo parts and engines, and weiged aboult half that of a renault or volvo
They also had Renault and DAF components if I recall correctly.
I will dig out the magazine that the article was in - I think it was a Super Truck from the early eighties.