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It's one of those weird AWD snow blower things.

A few more 3D prints of British Leyland's finest, including @Andyrew's Allegro of much blueness.

Absolutely. Bob said he wants it to go to someone who will preserve it as is so hopefully he'll be vetting potential buyers' intentions carefully. I really hope it doesn't get turned into yet another shiny over-restored show truck as that would be an insult to his dedication to keeping it on the road.

Old ERF taking a steamroller to the Bloxham rally today. I was so excited by seeing that I almost missed something even rarer with another engine behind it... It's only a bloody Seddon Atkinson Strato!

I think it's something to do with the Mini being such a small car that there isn't much tolerance for dimensional errors. Even if something is only slightly out from where it should be it has a knock-on effect that makes the whole car look wrong. I agree that Corgi is an abomination and even Chinese no-name brands who have never actually seen a Mini with their own eyes have done a better job.

Joby Carter's nemesis! He hates this model as it looks nothing like any vehicle his family ever owned and Atlas never asked permission to use the name. There's loads of them about as they were the £2.99 introductory model. He did a video where he ran one over with the real gallopers truck but that wasn't as satisfyingly destroyed as the one he crushed with a hydraulic crane leg. The 'mickey mouse' Foden cab casting (from Corgi's Trackside range) is nicely done but the rest is pretty poor so they're okay as conversion fodder but nothing more.

It was a mixer originally and also ran on the fairs for Whiteleggs as seen in this great shot fully loaded Shame it doesn't still have that Serck plate as that's the only thing that could make it better.

My favourite from Gaydon. A bit scruffy and the owner said it's never been polished so it has that authentic working truck look. It also has the best name of ever: Guy Invincible sounds like a comic book superhero.

Good lord, that is awful. How on earth could anyone spend hours finishing it without ever thinking it was utter shit and giving up? It looks like Chitty drawn by a 3-year old who's never seen the film.

It should indeed have a trailer. Shame it's gone AWOL but maybe it'll turn up in one of Market Blokey's other random boxes of tat one day.

That's an odd reg to rob - I can't see SAK 739S having any significance but it's now on a 2001 BMW 3-series. At least the new reg is on period-correct plates so it doesn't look too bad.

What a contrast in that Nissan set. The cars are lovely but the truck looks like something out of a Poundland no-name Chinese pack, plus it's clearly a smaller scale so the cars are way too big for it.

That Atkinson isn't a licensed HGV so I wouldn't count it. The Steam Transport Group doesn't actually seem to exist and is apparently just one private individual who restores old locos and uses the truck to move them around. Carters Steam Fair aren't travelling any more either. They packed up last season and all their equipment is coming up for auction shortly. The next oldest fully licensed HGV could be Comfortex's Atkinson OEB 536M. Not quite the same as Bob's F88 as it's a recent restoration and hasn't been in continuous use - it was completed just before lockdown and the owner got fed up of not being able to drive it because all the shows were cancelled so he licensed it and put it to work.

Sad news - an era is ending After 40 years Bob Carmichael is officially retiring and the man himself confirmed he's coming off the road at the end of July. The F88 is for sale - no idea how much he wants for it as even he doesn't seem to know what it's worth and is just saying "make me an offer" but he gave the impression it's likely to be a lot. A familiar sight at the Gaydon shows but leaving for the last time Three words for whoever buys it: DO NOT PAINT!

Please tell me that's not the finished article. It literally looks like someone bought some badges from the local Mitsubishi garage and stuck them on their Clio. 1/10 for badge-engineering effort.

Talk of DS Safaris makes my latest creation appropriate. This started out as a battered old Husky ambulance. The famous BBC Roving Eye VGY 997M. The DS itself needed some filler over the headlights to convert into a facelift version and I replaced the wheels with a set from an Oxford Diecast model. The camera is from a Matchbox Mercedes TV van, aerial from Scale Model Scenery (and is VERY fragile) and the trailer is modified from a set of 3D prints found on ebay, one of which luckily happened to be almost the right style. Really chuffed with how this one turned out, so I made one of the generator trucks to go with it. This was relatively easy, just a repaint of a rather garish Oxford circus truck, and isn't entirely accurate but close enough. And for my next project - the last roving eye car was a green Disco 2. Guess what Oxford have just released.

Mattel. I just do not understand them at all. From hideous fantasy castings to weird livery choices, wasting money on duplicated and reworked castings and utterly haphazard distribution, very little they do makes any sense to me. I've heard it said that they actively discourage collectors from contacting them with suggestions. Hot Wheels hold no appeal to me and apart from the occasional one as a base for rebuilding and improving neither do modern Matchbox.

I'm sure Sam Glover owned that very car and had it for sale on here a few years ago. I've seen it in the flesh a couple of times and it's a handsome thing.

This apparently is a Willowbrook 007: LHD only and entirely different from the Spacecar. Most were exported on Mercedes underframes but National Travel bought a small batch on AEC Reliances for continental services.

Stumbled across this on Citroenet: the ID19 Cortège hearse, made in Slough. Nice. Looks a fairly easy conversion from one of the many tatty Husky DS Safaris I've accumulated.

@TripleRichthis might appeal to you: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/175753881136 A model of your own car for Everard Junction?

I saw that very car on the road a couple of weekends ago. Looks like an excellent replica and one of Oxford's few 1/43 cars they haven't also done in 1/76.

Seen that round here a few times. It has a sister HAY 848Y too.

I think I've found @Mrs6C's dream car. Dongfeng E15. The perfect combination of ZX and C15 nailed together in Shiyan. And there's another version that looks like a tribute to the 2CV vans.

Went to the Wythall Transport Museum yesterday for their annual Bank Holiday do. Loads of resident buses plus some visitors, of which this was my favourite. It's a Seddon Pennine IV with a big Perkins V8 in the front making awesome noises. Allegedly Seddon offered an air-cooled Deutz engine as an alternative but none were ever built. Fortunate really as the racket such a thing would make is unimaginable and it would have bankrupted any operator foolish enough to buy it with compensation claims from passengers it had deafened.