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#1411
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Posted 01 May 2017 - 09:49 AM
Dunno if your 480 MAN will be one of the old 13L types or one of the newer 10L with 500lbs of boost types. 14 plate's borderline I think. The old engine was goo d to use, the newer one's ok but lacks the serious grunt round 1000rpm. That super duper engine brake the newer ones have is a good tool though.
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Posted 01 May 2017 - 12:58 PM
I dunno what company as I can't remember but I saw a R730 on the M18 last week, it had some massive custom chrome exhaust with right 6 or 8" pipes in a vee & a 2ft square V8 sign in the middle. Sounded bloody nice.
Oh & it was mostly blue.
People do like to spend a bit on those things. All the bits: alloys, pipes, paint, lightbars, markers...the list is huge.
There's a firm up in Perth - Bryce Transport - have a 58 plate R620, that to the best of my knowledge has no silencers worth the title. Just a length of matt black 4" pipe exiting before the centre axle each side. Noisy. Very noisy.
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Posted 01 May 2017 - 12:59 PM
I dunno what company as I can't remember but I saw a R730 on the M18 last week, it had some massive custom chrome exhaust with right 6 or 8" pipes in a vee & a 2ft square V8 sign in the middle. Sounded bloody nice.
Oh & it was mostly blue.
It looked like this, but the '8' was also chrome & the truck was blue.
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Posted 01 May 2017 - 01:02 PM
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Posted 01 May 2017 - 01:04 PM
No idea, but with a load on it sounded sweet as hell pulling up the M18 near J2 away from the A1 towards the M1.
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Posted 02 May 2017 - 06:41 PM
Put the old XF up for sale today. Looking about I think it's priced OK for what it is, hopefully go to someone wanting to shift a steam engine or similar rather than an exporter.
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Posted 02 May 2017 - 07:33 PM
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#1420
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Posted 03 May 2017 - 11:12 AM
I like this one: rare-ish V8 Renault plus Fuller that's giving no quarter to someone trying to work it like a synchro! He gets there though.
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Posted 03 May 2017 - 05:34 PM
That clip of the geezer driving the Foden is great, its been years since i've had the pleasure of a proper engine and gearbox, give me eye teeth to have summat like that to see me working days out.
The bloke driving the S21 Two Stroke Foden bottom right of that screen is very good, my first lorry gearbox that 12 speed with the unequal 3 range changer up on the right of what's loosely called the dash/steering column, that box bites back, go on get yersen a two stroke fix.
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#1422
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Posted 03 May 2017 - 06:29 PM
There's the series on coal shifting he's got too, that were taken from the cab of an E14 in 1988 iirc.
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#1424
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Posted 04 May 2017 - 06:38 PM
I know
#1425
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Posted 04 May 2017 - 07:53 PM
Possibly okehampton area
Skoda Octavia 1.9tdi - the boring modern
Fiat Ducato 2009 l3h2
Honda Crf250X
Suzuki TS50x
Kawasaki Ke175d
Prilla Pigsasshole 650
Saxo 1.5D
Land Rover 90 2.5 petrol
Vectra B 2.2 CDX estate
#1426
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Posted 04 May 2017 - 07:58 PM
I think I do too.....
Edit.... yeah same as 2smoke
#1429
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Posted 04 May 2017 - 10:13 PM
Smashing spot tho', can't be many AWDs left.
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Posted 13 May 2017 - 09:43 PM
And the ones who hadn't spent all morning drinking (it's a weekend-long show, don't panic - but most of the drivers were sloshing by lunchtime) got to squeeze their trucks under the gantry and go racing.
These chaps were running about 21-22 seconds - the same as a "warm hatch".
And then the big boys came out to play
The chap closest to the camera here got right into it, rolling burnouts and everything by the end of the day. This pair were running 18 seconds or so
This was a Formula 1 truck, so quicker - into the 16s (the same as something like a Civic Type R). Sadly something popped on the last run of the day.
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Posted 14 May 2017 - 12:58 PM
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Posted 20 May 2017 - 04:51 PM
I don't know if this is the appropriate thread, but I just seen this today on the tube of you.....Lesson to remember, Know the height of your vehicle.
Some proper brown trousers pictures....
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