Practically Classics Forum

i thought you would explain all that john.. meanwhile would this be suitable to tow your caravan?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRCRAFT-TUG- ... 3641.l6368


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1939-FLYING-F ... 2746315854

That aircraft tug is brilliant! Never mind pulling the caravan with it, that thing could make such a cool mobile home if you superglued the bodyshell of a caravan to the top of it. Or it could be a really handy alternative to a BMW X5 for the up & coming pimp about town. Imagine having the biggest rimz in da hood, wotcha rollin on, Barry, twenties? Twenty twos? That would be such a practical daily car. I need several. Now.

Oh aye, aeroplane is it eh. Hmm, no ta, I'd sooner be transported like they do in Star Trek than go in an aircraft of any sort.

They wouldn't be able to compete with four-wheel steering or two cabs .. drivable from each end.

No more reversing out of a parking bay. Drive in and drive out!!

It's got too many wheels for you John

Funny thing is that of my twenty eleven and a hundred and a dozen - as famously innumerate African communist Jacob Zuma would put it - Reliants, only one road legal one was three wheeled, other tricycles were only ever accumulated so that I had a ready source of old core parts and something to keep the fire going in winter. Kittens and Rebels, on the other hand, have been owned by me in double figure quantities and I even know how to tell a Fox chassis from a kitten one that's had a quick splash of Galvafroid and a change of radius arm bushes. Never owned a Fox though.. Or have I? I may have had one or two and forgotten about them, it's easily done.


Rich, congrats are due to you because this page is the 200th in this thread, I can't imagine how you could have found so many breakdown trucks since the thread began..

JPB wrote:
That aircraft tug is brilliant! Never mind pulling the caravan with it, that thing could make such a cool mobile home if you superglued the bodyshell of a caravan to the top of it. Or it could be a really handy alternative to a BMW X5 for the up & coming pimp about town. Imagine having the biggest rimz in da hood, wotcha rollin on, Barry, twenties? Twenty twos? That would be such a practical daily car. I need several. Now.

Or do this:



(the tug that was converted into the APC from Aliens came from Heathrow!)

I sometimes wish that people would stop posting images that make me want stuff I can't have!
That thing is just so right, yet so wrong at the same time.


Meanwhile, Rich, don't be too shocked but here's a listing for an actual breakdown truck:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Corgi-417S-La ... SwHsRYC1fV

Now I know it's rare, it's also complete with the box but really? That much? I've paid less than that before now for a real one that had a day's MOT and didn't even snap in two until after I'd driven it over the kerb into the garden, which spared me that embarrassing call to the AA that begins "hi, I'm on the M9 and my Land Rover started making ominous creaking sounds before the back half of it started to do rather too much of the steering.." How I long for the days when that sort of thing was normal!

john, i find it difficult to believe that you all have put up with 200 pages of my nonsense.... as for modifying the aircraft tug, one of my fantasies that don't involve nissan micra's is to one day take a hgv tractor unit & build a scaled up mini body on it.. saying that it would still be smaller than the new mini
meanwhile who could not want one of these
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RAF-Jet-Provo ... rmvSB=true
& for those who have far too much money but like shiny things..
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BOEING-747-EN ... 2155284323

here's to more pages of random nonsense

The seller of that engine part wrote:
*PARTS ARE NOT AIR-WORTHY*

No sh*t, Sherlock! BUT.. If that is yer actual Titanium, then the asking price of the artwork could be lower than the scrap value of the material, which would make it worth having.

rich. wrote: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AIRCRAFT-TUG- ... 3641.l6368

The Seller. wrote: REMOVED FROM SERVICE AS IT WAS NOT EURO 4 COMPLIANT FOR LONDON.

That just about sums this country up........