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Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Mon Nov 25, 2019 9:39 pm
by JPB
Ooh-er! Is it wrong to like that thing? :oops: Apart from the pointlessly low profile Barry Boys tyres, the excessive use of fake chequer plate, the large speaker enclosure in the boot - about as much use off road as tits on a fish - and the fact that the orange paint ran out half way through the job, I would be happy to own it. Actually, give me an unmolested, factory orange Frontera. That would save a lot of trips to the tip.
:mrgreen:

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:11 am
by Dick
Was the front badge from a rover?
Meanwhile this should suit ght
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 910599701/

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2019 7:57 pm
by GHT
Dick wrote:
Sat Nov 30, 2019 8:11 am
Was the front badge from a rover? Meanwhile this should suit ght https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 910599701/
Ugh! Far too modern. Like me, there's old, and there's old, and that ain't old enough. This is old enough.
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Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2019 9:35 pm
by Dick

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:53 am
by JPB
Oh my days, that's gorgeous! :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 12:50 pm
by Dick

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2019 2:37 pm
by GHT
JPB wrote:
Thu Dec 05, 2019 11:53 am
Oh my days, that's gorgeous! :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool:
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After the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu's communist regime, a number of churches and other charities, got a convoy of aid together for Romanians. It was my privilege to be honoured with the task of taking and supervising the dozen or so trucks full of supplies. I wrote a journal of the experience, still have it somewhere, probably in the loft. I remember that every car was the same, a Renault 12 clone called The Dacia, pronounced dacha. The jokes we made about it.
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But the real worry of that trip, if only I had known, was the rubbish fuel that passed for diesel. Our trucks kept breaking down, the locals told us the problem, we found that taking out the diesel filter and cleaning it helped, as did pumping diesel through a hessian sack. We ran on as as little as we could get away with and filled up once we reached Germany on the way home.

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2019 7:32 pm
by Dick
Ght, i was part of an association that sent supplies to Yugoslavia Serbia etc.. i was scheduled to take a truck out but there was a surplus of drivers so i helped with the loading etc..
Meanwhile
https://www.leboncoin.fr/voitures/1706664252.htm/
:drool:

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 10:09 am
by Dick

Re: breakdown truck

Posted: Tue Dec 24, 2019 11:39 am
by Dick