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Truck Porn

You get the occasional oddball. The last Bedford I drove was ex CAA and had twin wheel rear axle and 4x4
It belonged to a mate, think it had about 30,000 on it and drove very nicely.

One of the most outrageous ones was an ex M6 Atkinson gritter.
Rolls Royce engine, six wheel drive and a genuine 70mph. Lovely old thing and went like something possessed
Apparently they built a batch of them when they put the M6 over Shap and buolt he M62. I'm told that they had a theory that they would need to run the snow ploughs at 70mph to keep pace with traffic.

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It had lost the gritter body and plough by the time I had a go in one
There is one of those for sale at the mo, no ploughing or gritting gear but wrecking kit on the back instead. About 4 grand I think but in N Scotland..
 
My son lives in Oregon, and needs to be doing something useful, if you want his e-Mail address ;) .
Unfortunately, lovely though it is, my cup runneth over with American trucks undergoing restoration....plus a few bits of brit stuff too. It is nice though, plus, being earlier than 1960 quite easy to register (pre construction and use)
 
Do not worry, you're not alone.

Top tip though

Do not mix fleabay (US version) with beer.
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For sale in Wales, Fordson Sussex £16,500
 
Post war one....


Yes, wrong front end compared to the late relatives. Shows they are out there though.

Once the Welsh government lets me out of the county I'll head up north and have a chat with a cousin who will have more info about family motors.

I'm sort of inclined to think I fancy either an earlier Fordson or possibly a International like the pictures I posted way back at the dawn of time.
If I'm really honest I probably don't want something nice or period correct, I want a timber tractor and the dings and scrapes that come with it. And I want to drive it not polish it.
I very much doubt I will find what I want and probably not at the price I want but I'll keep looking.

What I probably want is something with a Cummins in it, double drive and battered old International cab on it. I'm not adverse to having to built one either.

I know, sacrilidge!
 
Yes, wrong front end compared to the late relatives. Shows they are out there though.

Once the Welsh government lets me out of the county I'll head up north and have a chat with a cousin who will have more info about family motors.

I'm sort of inclined to think I fancy either an earlier Fordson or possibly a International like the pictures I posted way back at the dawn of time.
If I'm really honest I probably don't want something nice or period correct, I want a timber tractor and the dings and scrapes that come with it. And I want to drive it not polish it.
I very much doubt I will find what I want and probably not at the price I want but I'll keep looking.

What I probably want is something with a Cummins in it, double drive and battered old International cab on it. I'm not adverse to having to built one either.

I know, sacrilidge!
Not sacriledge at all.

I have for instance a brace of late 1940 L series Macks, double drive etc etc. One has a running (and rare) Mack diesel engine in it (the Spams liked their gas engines) the other has its original but somewhat weathered engine and a bolloxed gearbox (70 years in Scotland in the rain. By the sea. Plan A was just to make one out of two. But then I got given a 220 cummins and gearbox that had been fitted in a Diamond T, and so I am now having ideas that my wallet, and time left on the planet, would rather I didn't. The aim for the first would be to fit a 5th wheel, but the second needs to look like the one below, complete with the twin boom wrecking gear from a Ward LaFrance or similar.
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But there are some good things out there for the not faint hearted. You just have to remember that its no more bits than a motorbike. Only they are a bit bigger.
 

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