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[wuvvum]

In a shocking* development, it emerged today that nearly new Nankangs offer significantly less grip on dry roads than worn out Dunlop SP Sports.  Whodathunkit?

[busmansholiday]

In other news the dedra turbo is parked up now, I'm going to get it MOTed in next few weeks, service it again and then get it up for sale.

There's a fucked but pretty complete one in a garage a few doors up from me.

 

[lanciamatt]

That's my dedra, Been there a few years now, it started out as a 1.8ie

[lanciamatt]

Garage roof collapsed on it

[Christine]

Small world !     Big roof ! 

[Cavcraft]

Iveco?

 

In one.

[Eddie Honda]

In one.

 

Beat those bedtime blues with Bully's electric blanket.

[wuvvum]

My local HGV driving school have started using 6.5-tonne Iveco Dailies for the C1 course.  Which I think is a bit of a cheat really - they're smaller than my Maxus, and apart from a 56mph limiter are probably very similar to drive.  I don't think that's very good preparation for driving a "proper" 7.5-tonner with air brakes etc.  But then my first experience of air brakes was driving a 30' long Leyland Roadrunner I'd just bought through the centre of Rotherham on a Saturday afternoon.  The brakes on that thing were like an on/off switch and it had no seatbelts.  Was an interesting first few miles.

[Cavcraft]

We had a couple of 6 tonne (or thereabouts) Dailies. As shit as they were, 95mph on a flat was possible.

[lanciamatt]

That dedra was my first lancia I had, I bought it from 4ways auto salvage in Chesterfield. Was a cracking car that at 20 years old I thought I was the bollocks lol. It was only 10 years old at the time. Sadly it ended up as a spares car when the box shit its self and has been there since about 2003

[stuboy]

Off with the manky old repeaters and some nice smoked ones..

[stuboy]

My local HGV driving school have started using 6.5-tonne Iveco Dailies for the C1 course.  Which I think is a bit of a cheat really - they're smaller than my Maxus, and apart from a 56mph limiter are probably very similar to drive.  I don't think that's very good preparation for driving a "proper" 7.5-tonner with air brakes etc.  But then my first experience of air brakes was driving a 30' long Leyland Roadrunner I'd just bought through the centre of Rotherham on a Saturday afternoon.  The brakes on that thing were like an on/off switch and it had no seatbelts.  Was an interesting first few miles.

daf 7.5 ton i drove last job had shit brakes, then on 2nd day it would release the brakes and head of the brake valve?? was faulty.. few brown trouser momoment

[richardmorris]

This is outside now and is lovely - any guesses (i went and looked at the badge).

 

 

[Jim Bell]

This is outside now and is lovely - any guesses (i went and looked at the badge).

Looks like a Daventry Miscreant Tourer?

[HMC]

A Westingborough “bullface” shaftdrive short chassis surely?

[Jim Bell]

Could be a Hoffman-Poultry Regicide. But they were green.

[Jim Bell]

Schwartzberg Malcontent?

[richardmorris]

not even close.

[HMC]

All these are easily confused as they featured the groundbreaking “pedo-safe” mounted detachably on the bulkhead, for chauffeur use. One motoring historian describes it as “literally a weapon to club passers by with”

[Jim Bell]

Is it a Middleton Mountjoy Dogger?

[Jim Bell]

Or a Penge Rattler?

[wuvvum]

I'm hopeless on '20s cars.  That radiator is ringing a bell but I can't quite put my finger on it.

[HMC]

Recumbulant diverticular III

[wuvvum]

Napier?

[Jim Bell]

Napier?

Napier Bran Motion II?

[wuvvum]

I think it's a Bran Stark.  The Bran Motion had factory fit foglights and three spare tyres instead of just two.

[richardmorris]

non.

[wuvvum]

Is that a clue?  Is it French?

[anonymous user]

A Maybach Involuntary Explosion

[Aston Martin]

My job was to carelessly throw the packages around the warehouse in Hull so can't comment on the drivers.

 

It did make me aware of this road though.

 

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Oddly, even google maps thinks he's a knob.

 

What the fuck? I had no idea.