Practically Classics Forum

breakdown truck! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/like/153076344781?clk_rvr_id=1580660439427&vectorid=229508&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=dlvr.it&item=153076344781&rmvSB=true Keeping on track there, but Chevy? RHD? Pah! Don't want it, it's LHD all the way for me with my yank wreckers, especially when st...

Love the cabover! Is it my eyes playing tricks, or is the front bumper made from a slab of rather wonky timber? :lol: According to the blurb, front bumper was timber, but now has a metal one as shown in some of the pics. Maybe woodworm got the better of it. Chevy small block in a Ford though? That ...

ISTR that marinas in Australia had the option of being fitted with the E-Series OHC six pot. I bet they handled well.......

GHT wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 24, 2018 5:15 pm

that is unless I had the garage demolished and a bigger one built.

You can never have a garage that's too big.....

http://www.practically-classics.co.uk/forum/download/file.php?id=4734 I'm not exactly sure of the year of that, but a mate of mine has one about a year before/after that one, which has a slightly different grill. His has twin spare wheel mounts, and is a really lovely thing altogether. He may be pe...

I like the Austin breakdown truck. I started driving tow trucks when everything was lifted by cranking the handle.

AFAIK the filler plug is a square, 7/16" IIRC, and they can be tight, so you can buy a special spanner cheaply if an OE spanner won't shift it. The nut could be the pivot for the reverse selector fork.....

Actually I'm reading his autobiography. And so far it has been quiet amusing. I read that, the first book I've read since way before I left school over 40 years ago, and once I started on it I couldn't put it down, and as soon as i finished it I read it again just in case I'd missed something the f...

rich. wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 28, 2017 6:49 am

breakdown truck!!!!

About time!!!!

Good for someone who has plenty of time on their hands.......

Luxobarge wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:25 pm

some of us with terminal OCD get very worked up about it....

Errr.....That's CDO if you don't mind.....