GR8 4 A-FRAMIN'!

[Ratdat]

I tried again to hire such a vehicle recently, but couldn't find anyone who does them any more

I couldn't find anyone around here or Grimsby either so ended up hiring a car trailer from a place in Lincoln. It was damned pricey too at £90 for two days but I couldn't really A-frame this heap of shit all the way back from the Isle of Wight

 

[Father Ted]

I originally collected my Fiat 500 from the south coast on a hired transporter - the ramps were too wide for the track which made loading interesting...I tried again to hire such a vehicle recently, but couldn't find anyone who does them any more

£30/dayAdmittedly of bugger all use if you live in Grimsby - but they are out there....

[MrRegieRitmo]

 

 

? just a pic, no text?

Just showing the pic that wasn't displaying! (and a good one it was too!)

[pompei]

Coo, Ratdat! What happened to it?

[Ratdat]

Coo, Ratdat! What happened to it?

I'm currently swapping it's engine (5.9), power steering and power brakes into another one I have. The yellow one was rotten as a pear but ran great. Cost me nearly as much to go get it as the car cost

[MrRegieRitmo]

What is it, a Plymouth or something? At first I just took it to be a Mitsubishi Celeste without really looking at it properly but I can see now that it's much bigger than that!

[Richard]

Is it one of these?

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4M0ZpJGTI0&feature=related

[Ratdat]

No it's a 1969 AMC Javelin...

 

[Richard]

Ah. I don't know any songs about one of those.

[pompei]

Yeah, I thought it was a Celeste as well

[Gompo]

Thats a good idea actually for taking the banger rally to the next level, get a decent towcar lik8 a 3 year old Audi A6 Quattro 3.0TDi and trailer your old banger across europe in air-conditioned 35mpg comfort, when you get there weigh in the banger and drive home again with an empty trailer (or even a load of Lithuanian girls to employ as slaves). Wacky fun all the way without the risk of having to regrind the crank at the roadside using a nail file!

Hope all went well Mr.B - you got this the wrong way round though, surely you'd leave the towcar abroad (particularly if a modern Audi) and drive the 'banger' back..

[seth]

A-frame cherry popped!

 

Well I didn't actually drive but was sat there waiting for the Oxford to make a bid for freedom.. Many thanks to teh Pog!11)""!!

 

 

 

 

PS. Rememberance Sunday might not be the best day in the calender to A-frame a car throught central London with half the Met on overtime duty....

[pogweasel]

HAha!Another one indoctrinated into the ways of the frame!¬Have to say that is the most hardcore bit of A-framing evAr, balls to Mr_Bo11ox euro adventure, try negotiating hyde park corner & the victoria one-way with a pile of 60's brit-bilge dragging behind your motor. Terrifying at the best of times, but the immense BACON presence in the area (gr8 timing!) really makes the palms sweat, the pulse quicken and the bumcheeks flap.

[michiel]

Good timing... where's the Oxford going?

[seth]

Good timing... where's the Oxford going?

Its gone to a safe, dry, underground lair somewhere in the capital

 

[michiel]

Ooh, is there a Sethcave?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Thursday night, 11pm: DOVER

 

Friday morning, 10am: BELGIUM

 

Friday afternoon, 3.30pm: BO11OX MUSEUM

 

[Guest]

Nice work! Are the rest of the Bollox museum still intact?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Nice work! Are the rest of the Bollox museum still intact?

110% so, not a speck of rust on any of em, loads of dust like but that adds to the whole 'barn find' appeal IMO:

 

 

Only issue is the O RLY owl had moved into the barn along with a few smaller feathery mates, with predictable results:

 

 

BASTARDS. I rinsed that off as best I could and took some chicken-wire based anti owl measures around the place to prevent this outrageous defacing of historic artefacts. Really these cars need some poly sheets put over them i think, I'll sort that out next time. The FUJI HEAVY INDUSTRIES 1800 4WD is safely packed away in the dry for discovery at a later date. .

[reallyloud]

poop-look.

[Mr Lobster]

Quality barnage there Mr_B

[Guest]

Is that the 929 Wagon? Little sods! Hope it's not burned through the lacquer or anything.

[michiel]

Rezulz! Shame about the pooping, bastid birds.

[pogweasel]

Get straight down to your nearest VW scene show. OMG HOODRIDE.

[michiel]

My Starlet should go down well - OMG NOTWASHEDINATLEASTSIXMONTHSRIDE! With some rust spots.

[nigel bickle]

Glad you had a good trip - fairly easy on European m/ways -just crusie inconscipously along at 70ish, slow lane -no hassle...All that way -you didnt stay a few days -find something to bring back.Wasted opportunity- in my humble..

[pompei]

GRUMPY OWL

[wuvvum]

Good timing... where's the Oxford going?

Its gone to a safe, dry, underground lair somewhere in the capital

 

That safe, dry underground lair looks strangely familiar...

 

 

This A-framing malarkey seems like fun. I must get myself one. Oh, and a car with a towbar and a working clutch...

[nigel bickle]

It'll be fun -till some turd in a wheezing 3 cyl metro with dubious bodywork is stopped by Traffic; A framing a Range Rover (or suchlike) prob missing half its bodywork -at speed, in the rush hour, down the fast lane of the M40.Thereon it wont be fun. I'm sure that day is looming...

[Father Ted]

Am I the only one to be worried by that bloody great crack in the barn wall?