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There are no delays at the Army and Navy at all at the moment due to LoCkDoWn

Here's a suggestion for half a bus

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This one actually got restored after spending many years atop a cruiser. They even managed to work out the chassis number after spending days looking through logbook records in Sweden or somewhere. Boat is also undergoing a resto back to original spec

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11 minutes ago, Lord Sterling said:

Shit! Would you consider selling on? Even for a small profit to me? My Dad used to have a Mercedes transporter like that.

Let me fondle it for a bit and then let you have it after?

I have a thing for those sixties MB commercials, although not quite the story you have!

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New arrivals in the form of some cheap job lots. Among less-interesting stuff, a couple more Probes. Adams, not Ford

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GT70 isn't one I've had my mitts on before

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Mercedes C111 has had a previous makeover

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I've got all these public service Hot Wheels already, but couldn't resist for a quid. A Color Shifter taxi/police cruiser and two different Crack-Ups police cars - maybe it's time I re-painted one. These older colour changing cars often seem to show both paint schemes as they age

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also included were these two Kidcos 

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2 hours ago, 155V6 said:

It's an Acclaim 🤔

We checked with Angus McClaim and both of his are RHD

So a home could well be found for a LHD one in red!  Bit of a dremmeling, and hey presto, badge-engineering to the rescue.  Once the box was ticked, the twitching would cease.

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Something I learned today....

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I've had this nice example of the Dodge Charger III for a good few years now. A fairly typical flight of fancy of the era.

Boxart Flying Dutchman Funny Car 1-0751 MPC

Today I discovered there was an AMT kit of this Funny Car version. Just found some interesting info and old articles about it here: http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,8604.0.html

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5 hours ago, bunglebus said:

There are no delays at the Army and Navy at all at the moment due to LoCkDoWn

Here's a suggestion for half a bus

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This one actually got restored after spending many years atop a cruiser. They even managed to work out the chassis number after spending days looking through logbook records in Sweden or somewhere. Boat is also undergoing a resto back to original spec

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Is there anywhere I can find out more about this? I’ve never seen that photo before and it sounds like a really interesting story

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The first pic is of a houseboat in Sausalito, California.  Apparently long-gone.  Taken on film, it must date to seventies/early eighties.

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The second is a digital pic from Sep 2008.  The cut body top half was fitted to a houseboat in Gävle, Sweden.  If you look at the top and halfway along, there is a hold rail.  Shortly after, it was recovered and shipped to the UK to a collector, who then sold it on to a collector in Austria in Feb 2009.  It was a RHD body, as they were in Sweden back in 1953-55 when the rooflight 23-window body was current.

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That's as far as I got to

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