Highlands of Shiteland.Travels and Home.

[catsinthewelder]

Great photos Rab

 

That ladies BSA is slightly less rusty than the one I'm restoring for Ms C.

[Junkman]

I've seen rustier ones at the Nationals.

[fotorabia]

On the basis it wont get me back to Australia...

[michiel]

Like like like & like. Great shots, love that windowless castle.

[KruJoe]

Lovely piccies as always Rab. Shiny motors really look good on the cobbles, don't they?

(Your immaculate giffer lada is actually an immaculate giffer spec Skoda Favorit, despite looking like a Samara. Good to see, just the same!)

[cort16]

Cheap 928 you say...

That Volvo 244 was built by nightmareracing on retrorides and has a metallic flake paint job roof if I remember rightly. I had the major horn for it when he sold it but didn't have the cash.

[KruJoe]

Lovely pictures as always Rab.

I'm finding that Saab more attractive than I should. Hmm.

Out of interest, just how cheap is a cheap 928 these days?

[Lord Sterling]

Rab, your pictures and stories are always interesting. Please keep them coming.

 

Also, its good to know that you are not giving up on your Aussi dream. I certainly ain't giving up on going back to Brussels where I know I'll feel more comfortable.

[Split_Pin]

Where is this? No snow yet in Falkirk.

[fotorabia]

Where is this? No snow yet in Falkirk.

Ardnamurchan...West Lochaber...5.30am....just a sprinkle..on a glorious moon..now the sun looks like it will shine...

[HillmanImp]

 First time ive seen snow..at sea level since 1996...i admit i did go snowboarding up an NZ mountain about 10 years ago...but that doesnt count as i got a sun tan as well..

 

Despite it being zub zero tempretures, being British my mates and I were sat outside a pub in Bishop Burton in February about 18yrs ago just because it was sunny. Out of nowhere it started snowing and Wanda who came from Oz got incredibly excited as she had never seen snow before which we were pretty amazed about.

 

Incidentlaly that was where I saw my 2nd favourite ever road sign:

 

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=bishop+burton&ll=53.845603,-0.49829&spn=0.000025,0.022724&t=h&z=16&layer=c&cbll=53.845627,-0.498107&panoid=2hzdSQHuT3mI1gUM1DatoA&cbp=12,14.45,,0,3.23

 

[mouseflakes]

I've seen similar signs at Liverpool docks...

 

 

...and by the Thames....

 

[brickwall]

..and an old phone box too!

[M'coli]

Great stuff as usual Rab, I'd say the 6-series is a UK-mainland car on a private plate, not enough Zs or Xs for it to be Norn Irn, IIRC.

[Richard]

It's definitely a Northern Ireland plate- three letters, one of them being I or Z, followed by four numbers.

[fotorabia]

Back to Ft.William..and some racey chod driven by an elderly local woman..

 

 

And yesterday I went over to Drimnin-Morven which is opposite Mull.I went looking for an old Manse House where i bought and didnt remove a Ford 100E back in 1987..the Ford had gone but I did find some other stuff..inbtwn belting sleet snow and rain..hence at times a foggy camera..

Empty caravans in abundance in these parts..

 

 

Bedford J1 Ambulance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is the old Manse.It was borderline livable back in 1989..we tried to rent it but to no avail.Its now totally wankered.Still a couple of nice tables in it mind.

 

Ghillie and I in the Fairy Ring..natural rock formation.Its a giant wall of rock thats sits on its own beside the road.Your supposed to jump thru it for good luck or the fairies will make you impotent.Sleet on camera.

 

Old Traveller in a byre..again..wet camera.

With a pick up companion.

Someone asked for an old Land Rover image..well..here it is..

And Ive made a new cool friend with astonishing facial hair..this is his project...saw it and went and introduced my camera to him.Nice guy.

 

Tractor tarp challenge?

And this was the top of the hill on the way home.

[fotorabia]

Old folks decided it was new car time...the old Kangaruu...as sound as it was had to be replaced with a new one.So the Oban Times was advertising a 2010 with low mileage..so Old Man and I went off to Inveraray to have a look.Weather was absolute shite..blizzard thru Glen Coe and gales on Rannoch Moor.The Renault was for sale by Scotlands oldest marque dealership..he's been in business since the 1960s...he told us that he opened the business when he found out it was easier to get a new Dauphine than a new Morris Minor.Its a busy active garage..

 

 

The roads are notoriously treacherous so he has a successful ditch extraction operation..running four recovery trucks.

This had spun out and gone into reverse via a truck yesterday morning.

 

Obviously had to have a look round the back.

 

Out with old..see ya old girl.

In with the new..

 

Going across Rannoch on the way back..we got hit n chipped on the windscreen by an over sized piece of road grit.I was kinda sad to see the old one go...folks had it 13 years..never failed them..but they still got 750quid trade in..the old dealer actually was a nice bloke...told me he'd got rid of all his classics..ran off a long list!

[fotorabia]

So..in this last week ..a couple of trips to Ft.William...the blight below Ben Nevis...

Nissan 300SX missing hedgehog remover.

Old Landie

Hillman Avenger with 36 delivery miles.Its been repainted.

Metro

Eyewitness report states this Land Rover went to fast around a corner going into town.

Army Defender in preparation for the Zombie Apocalypse

 

And this is the Boyd Brothers Haulage Contractors yard...ive known them since the late 70s but never actually been in their yard...

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Steyr crane aus Austria

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And their friendly mechanic who let me mooch around was rebuilding a 30 yr old Lister powered road roller..

 

[Split_Pin]

Loving the derelict lorries, esp the Volvos!

[Skizzer]

Outstanding.

 

WTF is the story with the minty Avenger? If that was a Cortina he'd be a millionaire... is it a museum thing? For sale? I have a fondness for these as my late lamented aunt had a couple, before getting into Renault 14s.

 

Glad I wasn't sitting in that LR Ninety when whatever happened to it, happened.

[mouseflakes]

 

  - OM NOM NOM NOM NOM

[drum]

Great pics.

The roof box on that defender survived well.

[fotorabia]

Outstanding.

 

WTF is the story with the minty Avenger? If that was a Cortina he'd be a millionaire... is it a museum thing? For sale? I have a fondness for these as my late lamented aunt had a couple, before getting into Renault 14s.

 

Glad I wasn't sitting in that LR Ninety when whatever happened to it, happened.

The Avenger story has been bandied around the classic car media...dont know really what the story in why it was never used...and hes got an EBay winning Lotto ticket price on it..hence lack of sale..

[KruJoe]

The three metallic blue ones for me from this page for me:

205GTI

300ZX

Avenger

Thankyouplease.

 

Keep up the good work Rab.

[KruJoe]

It's a tough life in that part of the world if you're a motor vehicle.

Quality photography as ever, Rab.

[Asimo]

That Zetor looks more 1980's than 1968

[fotorabia]

That Zetor looks more 1980's than 1968

yup me bad....thanks for the auto-correction.

[mouseflakes]

 

No central diff on these. Using it in 4 wheel drive on anything but the loosest surfaces must result in horrific wind up in the transmission, courtesy of those 'big 'n' littles'? 

[MarvinsMom]

that marina above doesn't look that bad, where as the aldi with its own lake/ecosystem in the footwell looks nasty...

 

some gr9 spots, it looks like a machine graveyard!!

[cort16]

I was going to say that audi coupe looks save able until I saw the carrots growing in the foot wells.