CreepingJesus

I only learned recently that polystyrene primer is a thing, and it appears to do a sterling job of being a barrier against whatever you use next. It might even stick the bits back together, but it would certainly expand your adhesive options I'd think.

Shitey old MAN earning its' living once it's had some care and attention. Bonus tractor and old Volvo shite later on, if you've got an hour spare...

Definitely odd, because Stonefield were still going strong when it was operational, so spare panels would've been available if it had been damaged. Probably custom built, but why...? Don't suppose it matters really, I've just been fascinated by them since a Scottish Motor Show when I was wee. With a Mopar 318 in it, it seemed like some kind of monster truck!

The Thames TV truck isn't a Stonefield, is it? Looks like one but not quite, somehow.

The way I'd look at it is that period correct is perfectly fine for a car like this, but the Drosje plate would be the cherry on the cake. It's a significant part of the car's life, why shouldn't it display that?

I would've said Mk2 or 3 Cav until I discovered the Volvo P2. The early P80 gets a solid nod too, as long as it's not too far into the blue badge years. The only real downside of the Volvos as An Car is fuel economy, otherwise an 850/x70 will not let you down for anything. The estates will even save you a fortune in van hire!

I'd bet it would be the 16L Volvo lump. As I recall, they made it an option pretty soon after the take over, and it went across well over there.

Yeah, that's what I tried to do, but Photofuckit gave me a lovely 404 so I'd to right click, download, upload into Amazon photos (cos Kindle) to download again to reupload to here! Welcome to the modern streamlined space age interslice...😂

Has to pinch this off my own thread, because Photofuckit seem to have binned it, so now I can't get rid of their shitty watermark either. Soz...

I could be wrong, but I've a funny feeling that FL7 is an ex Strathclyde Fire Brigade hookloader. Wonder if they've got the kit skids as well as the plant one that's on it.

Would it be possible to provide a PO box address, then we can all nip out to the nearest supermarket and get our spots/ads/whatever printed out to post off, and they could be mounted into the website with double sided tape? At least that way, when the pics disappear in future it won't be Photofuckit's fault. Again. We'll just need some more tape.

The grille made me think Foden, but of course I went down the 'stuff Belaz imported' rabbit hole because that's always fun. Not productive, but fun. Because the chances are that big old construction equipment with weird layouts will be Russian, or American made for the Middle East. Edit: could it be a Foden FC20?

Be very careful driving anything heavy over that stuff: I ended up in a whole world of trouble driving a loaded 26t water bowser on it at one festival a few years ago; booted the truck up a slippery uphill section, swung the nose round to reverse into the tank farm, and a section had kicked up (unknown to me) and lodged between the two back axles. Completely stuck. Couldn't go forwards or backwards. An hour of violence and butchery with a Loadall, big hammers, scaffold pole and wrecking bars got me out, but I wouldn't do it a second time! Ever after, I periodically checked any iffy looking joints and reported them to the contractors. Or just twatted it flat with a sledgehammer.

I couldn't speak on their driveability, especially the older models, but yes that was the winning formula: cheap, tough, and easy to work on. That Harris Bros built the kits well, and weren't cowboys probably helped a lot too.

Hunter green, I reckon. Just personally, on the basis that the light purple and the red look too...visually light? If you see what I mean. The green's more 'solid' looking on that shape. It's deeper. I think for a lighter colour it would have to be really eye poppingly over the top.

I could be wrong, but I don't think so. They were involved in a collaboration with Cummins and Bosch (which tangentially involved Scania before the VAG buyout) for that reason. That certainly torpedoed Nissan and Daewoo, because the huge V8s they were running (and again I may be wrong, but istr Daewoo's one was something like 21L N/A) were acceptable in third world countries, but not in Europe. Hino's engines latterly at least, were sensibly sized 24v turbo sixes. Besides, Japan domestically is pretty much on par with emissions regs anyway. Fundamentally, they weren't flash enough, and they didn't shell out to bag a marquee deal with a really big fleet. *cough* Scania *cough* Eddie's Go karts *cough*

Given their success elsewhere, it was notable how far they didn't get, here. Remember having this discussion on the Truck Shite thread, and I agree now as I did then, that they should've been just the ticket. That discussion was kicked off when I posted a pic of a Hino artic I'd spotted working, and that was properly into the realms of hen's teeth and rocking horse shit! It was one of a pair, and I don't think many others came to light.

At least the humble VW Golf is a Goal, as of today, rather than GOOLIES. I know it wasn't, I just couldn't read it any other way once it got in my head...

There was Hino too: spectacularly successful in a wide variety of markets all across the globe, popular in Ireland where CKD kits were assembled for decades, but here? Nope. Daewoo and Nissan trucks managed much the same, and Daewoo even came back for a second bite at the failure cherry with the Czech built Daewoo Avia puddle jumpers.

^ If Chris Rünge went corporate...

Indeed, that's why I was delighted to find that pic, rather than dig around and find my grainy 110 pocket cam one from 1985, there's so much 'what if' in it. Think the Lotus Etna was at that Scottish Motor Show too, and I have a pic of that too, somewhere, but @inconsistant has posted my second choice, the Ford Probe. I recall that being on show at a Kelvin Hall SMS (i.e., before the SECC opened) and having more of Jetsons type wow factor! But we know what became of it, unlike the EXE and it's buddies in (I assume) Gaydon.

I'll concur that it looks like it's upside down. It looks to me that there's wear on the cam's securing bolt, so I'll suggest that it's worked at all because the diaphragm spring - part #13 in the diagram - has pushed the plunger up to the incorrectly mounted cam, and it's the bolt head it's made contact with. Could've been like that a long time: neither part is massively stressed, and they seem from earlier pics to have been well lubricated. If the bolt can secure the cam from either side, that might be how it's happened, and the means to rectify it.

There's a load of them I love, but the MG EXE comes top of the pile, mostly because I saw it in the flesh at the time, and I've never got bored of staring at all the little details. A genuine pity it didn't make it into production in some form, especially as it was part of the thinking to replace the 6R4 for the stillborn Group S, iirc.

The mods, earlier on: No wait...that's the skinheads. As you were.