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[strangeangel]

Our Lass' old Panda has just trundled off our driveway for the last time, and considering that I never liked driving it (I used to curse it whenever I banged my knee on the transmission tunnel, or my elbow on the door while reversing) I was genuinely a bit sad to see it go.

 

I was deeply suspicious of Fiats, and we only bought it at two years old (with 4000 miles on) because it was a no-brainer at the price.

 

She did 11 years and 161000+ miles in it, and it always brought her home safe. You couldn't really ask for more, could you?

 

 

So long little feller, and may you and your new owner run up another cricket score mileage

[lanciamatt]

Replaced the front discs and pads on the V6 thema this evening, every bolt came out and went back fine. Not bad for a 29 year old car with 220k on clock. Even better was price £28 delivered off ebay

[Cavcraft]

I thought you were retiring...?

 

Retiring from 'main stream' just going to do two or three days a week at some point. Got offered a job the other day driving a 7.5 tonner almost when it suited. Try and guess why I turned it down.

[SiC]

Retiring from 'main stream' just going to do two or three days a week at some point. Got offered a job the other day driving a 7.5 tonner almost when it suited. Try and guess why I turned it down.

Iveco?

[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.