Truck Shite

[Cavcraft]

(Almost) snap!

 

Leyland by Cavlover1, on Flickr

 

Obv. I don't want to flood this thread/forum with truck pictures but I have a metric shit load of them if anyone wants to see some more.

[willswitchengage]

 

Being undertaken by a 6x6 Berliet driven by a small child using an iPodphone. Bad-ass.

[Split_Pin]

 

I have a metric shit load of them if anyone wants to see some more.

 

FEED ME PLZ

[willswitchengage]

Volvo F88 ADH 921L by gylesnikki, on Flickr

 

Spotted Britain's most photographed truck outside work in Berkshire earlier this week. Empty trailer though sadly.

[Cavcraft]

 

I have a metric shit load of them if anyone wants to see some more.

 

FEED ME PLZ

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/64497997@N04/page5/

 

Fill your boots, kid!

[dollywobbler]

On the way to Devon on Saturday, we parked up on the A470 for a spot of lunch. Imagine my joy when this smokin' beast appeared!

 

Clag!

[Split_Pin]

Thats a grand spot, looks likely to be a Cummins L10 or LT10 motor in there too - can't make out the reg number to check.

[oman5]

did you know back in the day you could get a cargo with a V6 maggie engine? bloke i knew had a mixer chassis one so fitted. sounded amazing.

[Cavcraft]

H144 LVN.

 

Make: Iveco

 

1st reg: 25.03.1991.

 

Fuel: Diesel.

 

Engine size: 10000.

 

*Missus bought me a magnifying glass!

[Split_Pin]

did you know back in the day you could get a cargo with a V6 maggie engine? bloke i knew had a mixer chassis one so fitted. sounded amazing.

 

Yep and you could get 2 capacities of Perkins V8 and apparently a Cummins V8 as well on the mid-weight models

 

Nice truck pics on your Flickr thread BTW Cav.

[simmo]

Terrier Incident post. I took this a couple of weeks ago, its in really great condition and used to be kept inside a vehicle hanger next to a petrol engined S-Series Beford "Ambulance". I don't think it has ever been used in anger but has probably been out on a few exersises over the years. It had a respray/refurb around 1990 when it was changed from municipal yellow to the privatised livery. I saw it still outside today so it may be up for disposal.

 

[oman5]

I like that. has to be seriously rare today, its a higher weight model, doesn't have the 7.5tonner's little piano castor wheels

[simmo]

You know, I nearly put Boxer

[willswitchengage]

ADH 921L spotted again this morning on the way to work, in Burghfield, Berks. Beginning to think he lives round here somewhere...

 

Also, mega points if anybody can work out what this is. It's sadly not longer there, but used to be when I lived nearby and cycled past from time to time. In the garage behind there's a red bonetted American-style "conventional" which I'd occasionally see being washed or serviced outside.

[rml2345]

Can't tell for certain, but it looks like a bit like a White Road Commander 2 from that distance...

 

White road commander II. by Wally Llama, on Flickr

 

1979 White RC2L 64T sleeper tractor - orange & white - fvl by Pat Durkin - Orange County, CA, on Flickr

 

Even if it's not it was worth looking for those pics...

[Tetleysmooth]

This is my old truck from the late eighties.

I used to spend five nights a week in that. Every week.

Racked up a quarter of a million k's in in. Twin diesel tanks used to take me from Thurrock to Felixstowe, Felixstowe to Coatbridge and back. Still had plenty left.

Cracking motor.

 

[willswitchengage]

I have one of those in Italeri-shite, love 'em.

 

Thurrock-Felixstowe-Coatbridge you say? These beauties* traverse that route nowadays...

 

 

Picture is from when got dropped from its crane at Newport docks... lolz

[Tetleysmooth]

I have one of those in Italeri-shite, love 'em.

 

Thurrock-Felixstowe-Coatbridge you say? These beauties* traverse that route nowadays...

 

 

Picture is from when got dropped from its crane at Newport docks... lolz

 

Yeah, we used to take the overheight containers (9'6'') Normal containers are 8'6''.

They wouldn't go through the rail tunnels.

[shellac]

On the way to Devon on Saturday, we parked up on the A470 for a spot of lunch. Imagine my joy when this smokin' beast appeared!

 

Clag!

 

That's Wesley Jones from Mid Wales

He was running a much older one until fairly recently -

 

He often runs out of Dolyhir/Strinds near Kington:

Wesley Jones still working his Ford Cargo by fryske, on Flickr

[shellac]

Volvo F88 ADH 921L by gylesnikki, on Flickr

 

Spotted Britain's most photographed truck outside work in Berkshire earlier this week. Empty trailer though sadly.

 

That's Bob Carmichael - he goes all over the place in it -- he regularly comes to a sawmill near me (South Staffs) but when I last saw him he'd just been up to Scotland in it...

 

This will do very nicely... by fryske, on Flickr

[willswitchengage]

Today's installment from the AS history channel:

 

 

http://retrorides.proboards.com/thread/97382

[willswitchengage]

What's the truck appearing on the left? Looks like a bonneted Merc SK but that's not getting many hits on the internets.

 

http://youtu.be/uBm0hwFWznE?t=54s

[scruff]

Brazilian jobby I think

 

[Junkman]

[scruff]

RR Eagles are claggers when cold. I damn near passed out starting a particularly bad army Foden wrecker from cold last winter - the smoke was unbelievable and with the exhaust pointing at the ground, below the cab, there was no escape. Fired on two and gradually the other four woke up.

[Felly Magic]

This beast was on its way to collect a dead Arriva Dennis Dart, Bridge Garage of Ossett have a very interesting fleet of wreckers. 

[Felly Magic]

Crap phonecam shot of Ward's of Robin Hood's Foden wrecker dragging out a stuck Optareshite loaftin that the driver (not me) had got wedged in a ditch. 

[willswitchengage]

Were Ivecoz ever sold in the States? This photo suggests so:

 

[FredTransit]

Were Ivecoz ever sold in the States? This photo suggests so:

 

the Cargo was sold in the US, saw em meself in the mid 90s. On the subject of Cargos, we now have 4, having bought a chassis cab so we can re cab the spec as it wasnt as good as originally though..... The parts one only cost £285 (no body on it) and was only out of T&T last month.

[scruff]

Get some pics up Fred! 

 

I actually saw a Cargo in the wild today and it was not only a non-horsebox but a friggin 3828 tractor unit     all signwritten up, I think "Rileys of Hartswell" and hauling a flat loaded with straw bales on the A61 just outside Chesterfield.