breakdown truck

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Re: breakdown truck

#3361 Post by Dick » Mon Dec 28, 2020 4:14 pm


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Re: breakdown truck

#3362 Post by JPB » Tue Dec 29, 2020 1:43 am

Hmm, it's certainly an interesting old thing. It's looking rough just now but is a simple device whose gradual fettling and fixing would be far less stressful then carrying on with the van's interior refit, which may yet finish me off. But even the post-covid, four stones lighter version of myself (down from 17 to 13 between the 19th of March and the 8th of August) would struggle to cook, shower or sleep on a motorcycle!
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Re: breakdown truck

#3363 Post by Dick » Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:55 am

4 stone! That beats my diarrhoea diet following a night out with mates and a dodgy kebab a few years ago.. it was impossible to be more than 30 feet from the loo for a week..
Meanwhile do you think you could modify this trailer setup into a caravan?
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Re: breakdown truck

#3364 Post by Dick » Wed Dec 30, 2020 6:47 am


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Re: breakdown truck

#3365 Post by GHT » Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:22 pm

Dick wrote:
Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:55 am
4 stone! That beats my diarrhoea diet following a night out with mates and a dodgy kebab a few years ago.. it was impossible to be more than 30 feet from the loo for a week.
A dodgy kebab, now there's a reminisce. It must be 45 to 50 years ago, I had gone to a client's place in West London, the meeting had gone well, I phoned my wife to tell that I would get a take-away on the way home. There was a rapidly expanding kebab franchise called, The Kebab Machine. Their shops were immaculate, all pristine white tiles, not somewhere you would associate with food poisoning. That kebab that I bought, laid me so low that my wife was about to call an ambulance. And squits! I tell you, I could have $h!t for England.

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Re: breakdown truck

#3366 Post by Dick » Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:25 pm

GHT wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 12:22 pm
Dick wrote:
Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:55 am
4 stone! That beats my diarrhoea diet following a night out with mates and a dodgy kebab a few years ago.. it was impossible to be more than 30 feet from the loo for a week.
A dodgy kebab, now there's a reminisce. It must be 45 to 50 years ago, I had gone to a client's place in West London, the meeting had gone well, I phoned my wife to tell that I would get a take-away on the way home. There was a rapidly expanding kebab franchise called, The Kebab Machine. Their shops were immaculate, all pristine white tiles, not somewhere you would associate with food poisoning. That kebab that I bought, laid me so low that my wife was about to call an ambulance. And squits! I tell you, I could have $h!t for England.
My dose followed rather merry a night out in Cheltenham .. in fact i was as merry as a newt. i have a vague memory of a salsa class where i trampled of some poor girls feet. After several more pints of Guinness my friend introduced me to my first kebab from a salmonella wagon near the centre ... as i recall it was the food of the gods. I don't remember much after that.. the following day i drove home and the last few miles couldn't pass quickly enough ..

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Re: breakdown truck

#3367 Post by GHT » Wed Dec 30, 2020 9:47 pm

Dick wrote:
Wed Dec 30, 2020 3:25 pm
My dose followed rather merry a night out in Cheltenham .. in fact i was as merry as a newt. i have a vague memory of a salsa class where i trampled of some poor girls feet. After several more pints of Guinness my friend introduced me to my first kebab from a salmonella wagon near the centre ... as i recall it was the food of the gods. I don't remember much after that.. the following day i drove home and the last few miles couldn't pass quickly enough ..
We used to have a dodgy burger wagon with a name plaque, "Sam'n'Ella" above it. That kebab put me off any sort take away after that. As for Sam'n'Ella..............

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Re: breakdown truck

#3368 Post by Dick » Thu Dec 31, 2020 6:00 pm

Tell me more !
Anyway would this suit you John?
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Re: breakdown truck

#3369 Post by Dick » Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:39 pm

Got chance of a few classics, a local farmers father rented out a couple of barns in 2011 to a chap who promptly filled them with Renault 4s a few 2cvs and several other French classics. The chap then vanished and hasn't paid rent since 2015.. in total there is 110 cars under cover and a couple more outside.. im waiting for permission to have a look and get a few photos...

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Re: breakdown truck

#3370 Post by GHT » Sat Jan 02, 2021 3:03 pm

Dick wrote:
Fri Jan 01, 2021 8:39 pm
Got chance of a few classics, a local farmers father rented out a couple of barns in 2011 to a chap who promptly filled them with Renault 4s a few 2cvs and several other French classics. The chap then vanished and hasn't paid rent since 2015.. in total there is 110 cars under cover and a couple more outside.. im waiting for permission to have a look and get a few photos...
Je l'ai vu en premier

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