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Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Sat Dec 05, 2015 12:56 pm
by JPB
Better still..
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 6:00 am
by rich.
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:37 am
by UKJeeper
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Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Tue Dec 08, 2015 11:15 am
by JPB
Hmm, interesting and I'm guessing that the hull of one of thae things would be able to withstand pretty much anything apart from the relatively smooth water of a river, the Thames for example.
For anyone who doesn't have the fire brigade on speed dial, there's this much more manageable alternative:
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:17 am
by TerryG
Le Stalwart is pretty cool but if I was picking one from that selection it would be le coach.
Should that be das coach as it is a German coach on a French website :S
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:45 pm
by rich.
i always fancied one of those dukw things... bus would be more useful though
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 7:55 pm
by rich.
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2015 10:05 pm
by JPB
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:08 am
by rich.
if i had the choice between a real jeep & the c15 i know which i would prefer
how could you tell what it was by the way?
Re: breakdown truck
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 12:29 pm
by JPB
rich. wrote:...
how could you tell what it was by the way?
I repaired a Visa's scabby bits - for resale purposes - about twenty four years ago, it was generally pretty sound but that very distinctive scuttle area (double skinned, big thanks for that, Citroen
) had already rotted through, causing the screen to start falling out at the corners. I'll never forget how hard it was to get the shape of that part right if I live to be 132 years old but swearing was as good a way forward as any and the total time for getting the car retail ready was a mere three days, of which two were spent on the rotten scuttle. Great wee motor though, and dirt cheap from the auction as it had a crank sensor fault that caused its (Dyane-derived) flat twin to stop every few miles on a random basis. The P/O had spent a small fortune on a new ECU from the dealership, who'd failed to diagnose the - much cheaper to fix - actual cause of the fault.
Their cockup was eventually addressed through the small claims court and the one time Citroen owner bought an FSO Polonez as a replacement. I always reckoned that doing this was the motoring equivalent of selling a seventeenth century farm cottage in the Highlands and moving into a flat above a kebab shop in some faceless city.
I'd have a Visa in the blinking of an eye, but it would have to be the twin pot petrol engined version and there'd be a spare pair of sensors in the glove hole just in case.
