breakdown truck
Re: breakdown truck
I'm pretty sure you have posted that before. You do have a knack for finding strange things.
Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Re: breakdown truck
Yeah, most of the later ones are Gusset Brown just like the specimen in the link. Not as classy a brown as Sienna or Maple, terribly infra-dig don'tcha know!TerryG wrote:SHOCK news, Triumph dollies are available in colours other than orange!

The answer is yes, now what was the question again?rich. wrote:have I?![]()
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"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..

Re: breakdown truck
That looks carmine red not brown to me, like a very dark orangeJPB wrote:Yeah, most of the later ones are Gusset Brown just like the specimen in the link. Not as classy a brown as Sienna or Maple, terribly infra-dig don'tcha know!TerryG wrote:SHOCK news, Triumph dollies are available in colours other than orange!![]()

Re: breakdown truck
You're more than likely right, Rob. I have trouble with telling one from the other. Amazingly, none of the electrical work I've done on various cars over the years has resulted in death by burning.
On the other hand, Carmine usually looks like this:

Or like this one, with the usual front indicator issue:

(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)!


Or like this one, with the usual front indicator issue:

(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)!

J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..

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Perhaps it's a mirror image seeing as the Triumph badge is on the wrong side tooJPB wrote:
(How do so may people do that? It's actually harder to get them on that way)!

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What really scares me is that I had to think about the above words for a good three minutes!mach1rob wrote: Perhaps it's a mirror image seeing as the Triumph badge is on the wrong side too![]()


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"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..

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Re: breakdown truck
You may well laugh, that horribly mutilated example has been on before, no takers even in a country with quite a large Matra following.
1974 Rover 2200 SC
1982 Matra Murena 1.6
1982 Matra Murena 1.6
Re: breakdown truck
no takers for the ferarri either?
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If the seller would accept the (checks pockets) £2.17 and a Tesco receipt for screen wash in exchange for his Ferrari, I would more than happily arrange transport for it 

Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.