Giz us a tug! (The recovery truck thread)

[ruffgeezer]

Being as we are, shitests of the highest order, I am almost certain that between us, we must have amassed a fair selection of recovery pictures. So I want them here, with the stories too please.

 

Here are mine:

 

Mk2 Ax Gtr:- Bought as a terrible conversion, basically a gt carb manifold cobbled onto a vtr engine, it never really ran properly and it disgraced itself twice in the few months before I fragged it, this time was a knackered ignition amplifier, the truck is a Dodge Series 50, the camera is a toaster.

 

 

 

The "smurf" A proper Ax Vtr built for just £80 in a mission to use up as many Ax parts from my stock as possible, it was a fun year running around in it, and this was on the way home from my honeymoon, after bursting it's radiator hose just outside Hull, and sicking up all the remaining coolant all over the car park at the Humber Bridge:

 

My Ax forte project, off to be welded:

 

A donor car, this gave it's standard gt engine to a black gt I'd fitted the above crap carb'd vtr lump to, bought from the local citroen dealer no less:

 

And now, the not so lucky ones, due to being to knackered, to rusty or just to messed about with, these few found an end on the skip wagon:

 

 

My greatest shame, the Purp had a truly outstanding paint job, unfortunately, it was laid over a rotten shell, much like spraying glitter on a dog turd:

 

The donor gt on it's way to be frag feed:

 

That Ax GTR, as it was held together with spit and chewing gum:

 

Your move!

[Lord Sterling]

This is the only picture I think I managed to get of my Sterlings being moved from Sutton Coldfield to Worcestershire where they are currently residing.

 

[Conrad D. Conelrad]

Knock knock!

Who's there?

Not your big end bearings anymore!

 

[Bren]

I like the piccies of your AX's.

 

Sadly I do not have photo's, but if you replace the ax's with SD1's then you have an idea of what my thread would be.

[Lukas]

The most relaxing and most unreliable car I ever had. It did this two times in 5 month, the second time I even did not get a picture of it getting towed away anymore. Was happy seeing it disappear round the corner...

 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

Found this picture a couple of weeks ago ,it dates fro 1985 when a Harvey Frost in the back of a V8 109 was still perfectly acceptable as a recovery vehicle.

 

The XR3i had just come back from a service,I then caned it from Wimbledon to just outside Bletchley thinking to myself , 'that noise and vibration from the n/sf wheel feels like something's loose' so I turned up the Brothers In Arms a bit and put my foot down.....

[EssDeeWon]

Good idea for a thread, it reminded me that my GF took these pics of the Scorpio failing on a dual carraigeway in Southend. The fuel cut of switch was faulty and the alternator was weak at the time. Said car was fixed and taken away by a fellow shiter a few days after this;

 

 

Police spotted it holding up traffic and pushed it back into a slip road

 

 

RAC turned up a few minutes later

[beko1987]

 

Luckily only temporarily!

[Junkman]

Found this picture a couple of weeks ago ,it dates fro 1985 when a Harvey Frost in the back of a V8 109 was still perfectly acceptable as a recovery vehicle.

 

That was when yanks weighed 1600 kg, not Golfs.

[spike60]

I can't compete with the tales of woe but here is my latest toy getting collected to come home after buying. Only moderately broken.

 

 

[worldofceri]

Great thread idea. I don't have any pics of cars being recovered - in fact I've only been on a flatbed once that I can recall (split top hose on my Renner 5 on the M1) - but loads of pics of P&H lorries being recovered! I'll collate them forthwith!

[panhard65]

The other half's 807 after it shat it's alternator belt tensioner in Le Mans

We had excellent service from the breakdown company when in France. Yesterday when my newly aquired range rover p38 decided to drop all it's water on the M5 they weren't so fucking wonderful. What is it with customer service in this country now. 3 and a half hours they expected us to wait on the hard shoulder. Luckily I got a friend to bring out a few gallons of water and had it running long enough to get home. The bastards only wanted to put it down as one of only 4 call outs we are allowed a year as well.

There is also this my breakdown truck towing a midget round to the paintshop

[Cavcraft]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[sporty-shite]

WELCOME BACK TIMESTAMPS

[Cavcraft]

That 'FJH' reg'd BX had sprung a life threatening LHM leak from an HP pipe. That's Vanny fixing it up enough to enable it to be moved. Pretty sure that was a4x4 one that was on it's way to Northern Ireland for one of the BX gang. 

[HillmanImp]

From when I was young and (some of you) were even younger:

 

 

Was on the way to the Imp Club national round Derby way in 1994 when I was a fresh faced 18yr old (not me in the photo, I was taking it).

[EssDeeWon]

^^Back when Sierra's where everywhere! And that's an early Laguna in the background too.

[Cavcraft]

More importantly, isn't that a Montego estate parked next to the Sierra estate?

[HillmanImp]

You know you are on Autoshite when everyone gets excited about partially visible Lagunas and Austin Montego estates,  not even registering the Ginetta G15 parked in full view, right in front of them. 

[Guest yelookinit]

AMAZING IDEA FOR A THREAD!!! IM A SUCKER FOR A RECOVERY TRUCK PIC ðŸ‘ÂðŸ‘ÂðŸ‘ÂðŸ‘Â

[Fabergé Greggs]

A while back, had a garage fit a new rear calliper and some new flexis. Halfway down the motorway, the brake pedal hits the floor. The new flexi hose had a fight with the tyre and the tyre won. Only time the Fiat has failed to make (safe) progress in 40,000 miles. 

 

 

 

 

And for some role reversal, puling my (free) mini out of the place where it had sat for 12 years. Since moved to London and had to pass the mini onto a pal with some space. 

 

[Cavcraft]

Sadly the only picture I have of my EPIC MOT fail Mk3... 

 

 

 

...seller had 'lost the MOT' for it and it had a few months tax, so I made good use of it, then ran it to an MOT place about 20 miles away. In the words of the tester it was the worst he'd ever seen and I think it had about 3 or 4 pages of failures. I went to put my BX estate on the back and drive the Transit back home, and he pointed out what looked like the heads of one or two of the chassis mounting bolds looking suspiciously sort of Superglued on. Which one at least was. 

Anyhow, it had done me proud and even turned me a nice profit on an internet auction site. The lad who got it was absolutely chuffed to bits with it, he wanted it for the back, winch and beacons for a newer one and drove it home.

[EssDeeWon]

^I no can see any pic Mr Cav, can anyone else see it??

[Cavcraft]

 

That working? It's probably Photobucket, I'd forgotten how wank that web site is.

[worldofceri]

Damn right it's wank, I'm just trying to get the links for a few of my photos and it won't even show me them.

 

(Could be my steam-powered laptop is the problem though to be fair.)

[saucedoctor]

I was at my folks house when OMGHGF struck. Here he is being carted off to my mate's place to be fixxorated. Recovery vehicle is an LDV, run by a young local lad. Only charged me £20!

[mouseflakes]

Wish I had taken a photo of my '72 Hiace camper towing my '72 R4 

 

Oh well - here's a '78 R30TS on the back of some transit or other...

 

 

[Vin]

Not strictly recovery trucks I know, but...

 

A few years back, shifting the 126 over to Hull as that was where the then current winter storage was. It wasn't MOT'd so I had to trailer it...

 

 

Another earlier one from 2004 when I got the Panda 45 back from the paintshop in Leeds...

 

 

 

[chaseracer]

 

 

Three-quarters of my Dyane off to Rock Ferry to be welded, circa 2002.  Yep, that is another (slightly stretched) Dyane towing it...

[CreepingJesus]

...but loads of pics of P&H lorries being recovered!

 

Dustpan and brush, sir? Or a metal detector to play hunt the gearbox/engine/front axle/back axle?

 

My most recent, when the T5 jumped a passing Iveco...

 

 

That time when Tesco wouldn't admit to DAF that one of their drivers (not a noob either), put AdBlue in the diesel tank. Seventh time, actually: every time it did an injector, and that last time when it did the pump. All under warranty.

Also: when is a DAF, not a DAF?

 

 

Stricken DAF being dragged backwards in a Borders village at midnight. Not a Stephen King story, but the American built trailer was an impressive bit of kit.

 

 

All lashed on, and ready to go home.