Am thinking of beaver, any recommendations ?

[castros_bro]

Opened mouth and poured in beer so now may have to deliver a "baby" Austin from South of Chichester to North of Hamburg. Any recommendations for sub 2000 GBP type of car transporters/flatbeds/beaver tails on that web based auction site?  Any strange rules about this type of vehicle in the EU? I have car+trailer+HGV(+moped) UK licence.

[Cavcraft]

Simple: get the best Transit Mk3 Di that you can (ideally a 1998-ish one) with slide out ramps, a decent winch and a non-whining diff. If anyone tells you 'MOT exempt' run several miles.

[Sigmund Fraud]

The sensible option would be to rent one for a few days, but where's the fun in that ? It would be so much better* to do the job in a rusty LDV with the asthmatic Peugeot diesel engine. 45MPH on the Autobahn FTW !

 

On a slightly different note... What will you be bringing back from Germany ?

[John F]

He's thinking of beaver, so it'll be several Euro pallets of hairy porn.

[mercrocker]

If its south of Chichester its going to be a bit wet too, n'est-ce pas?!

[wuvvum]

I'd be tempted to go for a 7.5 tonner.  Might be overkill for a wee Austin, but you tend to get more for your money as the fact that a lot of people now can't drive them means the supply / demand equation is more in your favour.  I don't find they use much more fuel when laden than a 3.5-tonner anyway.  You should be able to get a half-decent Merc 814 or Leyland Daf 45 for that money, or a Roadrunner for added shite points.  Ford Cargos now seem to be either completely fucked or overpriced "classics", and for a journey of that length I'd tend to avoid anything with an Iveco badge.

[castros_bro]

The sensible option would be to rent one for a few days, but where's the fun in that ? It would be so much better* to do the job in a rusty LDV with the asthmatic Peugeot diesel engine. 45MPH on the Autobahn FTW !

 

On a slightly different note... What will you be bringing back from Germany ?

 

Maybe time the return via moped autojumbles Vehikel Bromfietsen at Ijsselhallen Zwolle or the one in Uktecht with 750 euro and an empty wagon then collect most of a log cabin kit from Sarf Lundon which someone ordered but didn't collect and take it to Middle of Nowhere  in Portugal to build it as my new Moped Fettling /Citroen diesel repair shed.     

[Christine]

What you's  wanna brung home is VW T4 passenger door pockets, or drivers door pockets as it were for left hookers.... new or secondhand ,  and same goes for LHD  T4 drivers/ passenger door mirrors .. double ya's money when you get home ???  . Same with drivers seats too.... over here spewing foam ,ripped bolsters , over there "passenger"  seats are mint !!  

[twosmoke300]

Its like most things at that price range , you either have a good example of a shit truck or vise versa . Personally I would go for a 2.5 di engined LDV or tidy tranny . Avoid a 2.5 turbo with the epic pump .

Sprinters at that price will have massive miles and the black death or worse. Ivecos are just terrible. Vw LT isnt a bad tool though.

 

Like wuv said its tempting to go 7.5t if your licence allows . Loads of people go around overloaded on 3.5t transporters cos modern cars are soo heavy and most trucks are 2 tons ish unladen.Im not sure what the operator licence / tacho situation is these days for moving your own stuff.

[wuvvum]

Or...

 

[twosmoke300]

We have a winner , is that the 2.5 na ? Got a job to pull itself but goes on and on.

[castros_bro]

That's that's that's so epic I've sent them a message, not sure what the locals here will think if I get it as my driveway ornament is presently a Renault T900 Prima with a mouldy green slime vaneer (veneer).

[Cavcraft]

Master class.

 

Looks pretty hefty, though, won't you need an 'O' Licence (or whatever ridiculous, created to keep people in trumped up training jobs certificate is now) for it? At one time for a 'genuine' recovery job you could drive without a tacho, now it's something like 62 miles from your base. Also, if pulling your own stuff I'm pretty sure it comes in as collecting goods so you'd need a tacho and all the shit that entails.

[scruff]

It's only a 3.5 tonner isn't it? 

[wuvvum]

Yep, it's a Master rather than a B110 so will be 3.5t and thus tacho / OL exempt.  Unless used to tow a BFO trailer.

[Cavcraft]

He'd better have gone to fetch it then!

[MarvinsMom]

i assume the op was referring to an Austin seven, as in a teeny weeny tiny little car from before the war?

 

wouldn't one of those fit inside a hi-top tranny van? 

 

iirc didn't practical classics mag move one in a van when they started to restore the Austin seven recently, like in the last couple of years?

 

if so, then is there no need to hire a beaver tail??

 

or was i just dreaming...... (cos i do, and often of "rubbish" cars.... sad or what)

[Inspector Morose]

If not a high top, definitely would fit in a Luton.

[Doctormop]

Or...

 

Am I the only one thinking of Mr Crockett from Camberwick Green?

 

Thought so, sorry!

[castros_bro]

Info update,  a couple of hours fettling with metric tools in a garage near Petworth and the A35 engine is purrring, its brakes are braking and its steer is steering. Being old it has been awarded a free MOT and taxless tax.  North of Hamburg is actually Copenhagen. Last A35 I drove up that way suffered from incontinence causing a failure to proceed during the rush hour on Antwerp's non-ring road, this one looks in far better condition so may be able to get there UNDER ITS OWN POWER and carrying a slightly dismantled moped for the return journey.   I've moved some cars, mainly Berkeleys and the odd Lotus, in back of  LWB transit type vans and the inner wheel arches of RWD cause serious problems. The log cabin kit is somewhere near Wisley Gardens was delivered from Lithuania a couple of years ago and is just over 4m long in 3 packages to be loaded by forklift  

[Sigmund Fraud]

From Copenhagen to South England ? On a moped ? In January ?

 

EPIC, we expect live updates !

[wuvvum]

Fuck me!

[They_all_do_that_sir]

Watching this with interest!!

[Angrydicky]

Oooh A35, have you got any pictures? I've been trundling around in mine recently, great little cars.

[binhoker668]

It would drive nicely into the back of this handsome beast... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Renault-Dodge-50-Horsebox-With-Full-Mot-6-6-Ton-/400820251798?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item5d52bfac96

[castros_bro]

Close but nada cigarello, I had this lovely lined up for £500 but having spent several days under it and reboarded the ramp with18mm ply it all looked a bit too flimsy for a serious car moving journey so painted it using big brush and coach paint then someone kindly wrote it off by parking their Audi underneath it at speed so moving the back axle but not their head.

 

[Wilko220]

How sad. One suspects the world may have been a better place had your axle been the thing that stayed put.

[Pillock]

"Hello, A-Team House Removals, how can I help you fool?"

[castros_bro]

International removals rice pudding skin removing motive power

 

[Inspector Morose]

You know a car is good when the heater box is bigger than the engine!