breakdown truck

[GHT]

I don't know why bt ive always fancied these...even if it is French
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/1986-CITROEN-C ... e852d09efd

I had one, I'm sure that I have told you, late seventies, '79 I think. I didn't actually own it because it was a company car. Did it wallow around corners, if you drove it like a van then it was fine, but risk a little speed in a curve, I don't mean a bend, just a gentle curve and you felt it. Mine had three rows of seats plus two more facing the tailgate,you could get ten in it, not that I ever did.

[Dick]

I seem to remember you saying something about those.. i did manage to pack 9 students in my mini for a trip to the pub on several occasions, when i transported the girl's from our group mini went rather well.. when i attempted the same trip with the lads my mini struggled with the hills.. if i could go back in time..
Meanwhile, john how about a pickup
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 424801323/

[JPB]

Usually, I would be over the moon when a link to that site works, but there are exceptions to every rule.

One thing I need to know though: What's the big grey thing in the cab?

[Dick]

One thing I need to know though: What's the big grey thing in the cab?

Assuming that its a French vehicle its probably something that's been knocked off while parking...

[Dick]

Here's another for you John..
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 869111692/

[Dick]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... 465352812/

[Dick]

Would this be suitable John?
http://vi.raptor.ebaydesc.com/ws/eBayIS ... spheader=1

[Dick]

Are you still looking for a plastic mini John?
https://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Foers-nomad-19 ... 9c3a3ddbc6

[Dick]

This makes me sad

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/it ... tory_share

[JPB]

Hmm, liking the tiny electric trucks but no thanks as I often travel over 100KM at a time (that time being pre-Covid) and don't have an extension lead that long, so must stick with plant based fuels in internal combustion engines for now.

The Renault 5 is interesting, shame it has only two photos and that they show the same view of the car / mobile knocking shop type thing!

I already own a motor caravan with a high roof but that Atlantean is scarily attractive to me, though presumably the stated manual transmission is the expected & needed automatic? I don't know but what a great idea as a luxurious, spacious HMO for the use of isolating students in cities whose halls and traditional student residences have become a risky place to be, even with the bars shut.

The mini-based thing is nice, and converting to automatic shouldn't be the worst thing to have to do since many automatic gearbox/engine units from minis were removed when people bought the cars to fit a manual arrangement, ergo it should still be possible to do the swapover in the other direction.
And it's orange, therefore it's the best car currently being sold anywhere, ever.

And the Nissan? Sadness isn't the emotion that it raises in me. Nope, that would be total bewilderment with a tinge of despair, relating to the state of mind of the creator of that act of vandalism at the expense of the best selling and well loved car's innocent body. Oh wait, it's a shagged out old pile, please would someone kill it with explosives?