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Get this in at work every 13 weeks. Back from the era of when Mercedes Benz made really good trucks. Nearly 19 years old and doesn’t need any repairs. She’s a minter. 👌

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edit: just been for a road test…. Drives much better than a new merc atego or a bigger actros. Lovely. 

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3 hours ago, sutty2006 said:

Get this in at work every 13 weeks. Back from the era of when Mercedes Benz made really good trucks. Nearly 19 years old and doesn’t need any repairs. She’s a minter. 👌

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edit: just been for a road test…. Drives much better than a new merc atego or a bigger actros. Lovely. 

Bet it's a one driver all it's days truck.

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On 12/12/2022 at 6:22 PM, 808 Estate said:

I like this. Stealth camping at its best. :D

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I had a slightly older (ex RAF) TK horsebox (with the petrol engine, pure hydraulic brakes and handbrake operated on the prop shaft - wheee!) that I sold on to a guy who did something very similar. He turned into a lovely camper (fixed luton helped )  last time I heard it was parked up near Exeter racecourse as a non-runner.

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Jelcz lorry, Polands finest, according to the comments accompanying this pic and translated directly from the German (this one ended up in the DDR)...

'The 'Jellineck' was also called the workshop scare'

'Rarely built but the Leyland diesel's were vile drunkards'

Which I think questions a) their reliability and b) the economy of the licence built, but unpopular, Leyland diesels some were fitted with.

Jelcz are still with us making military vehicles -

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3 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

This one always caught my interest at the time. 36 years underwater and it's in better condition than half of the VW buses over here in the UK 🤣

https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.roadkillcustoms.com/1957-volkswagen-bus-pulled-from-lake-in-norway-after-36-years/amp/

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I put this here so I don't completely derail the bus thread.

Yes this VW bus story is pretty good another one that was also raised from a lake and is almost more impressive is a 1928 Scania truck that went through the ice on Swedish lake Fyken in 1936 while plowing snow.

It was raised 50 years later and restored and put on the road again. It still has the original drivetrain and much was still working like the tires and even the battery! It is on display at a museum in Torsby Sweden, I have been there myself and seen it.

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The original body needed a lot of work so it was put on a wooden frame and preserved and the truck got a new one.

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Completely restored.

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And snow plowing on the same lake where it went through the ice.

 

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1 hour ago, CreepingJesus said:

The Thames TV truck isn't a Stonefield, is it? Looks like one but not quite, somehow.

 It's a Stonefield.... but as you say the cab doesn't look quite right 

 

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Here it is in action...

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And this is what I think a typical Stonefield should look like. I guess the chassis is the same and most of the cab, but it looks like Thames may have specified a different cab bottom and grille which gives a  touch of Dennis about it.

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