eBay tat volume 3.

[Mr_Bo11ox]

I'll never tire of seeing the 'CAMPER LORREY'. I know we are fortunate to see some extreme examples of shite-based fruitcakery on this thread but that ludicrous cauldron of tramps jizz is one of the all time greats. Just what is the fucking advantage of it? I have spent my entire morning commute more than once racking my brains looking for a single plus point to having a little wanky caravan permanently mounted to a fucking 7.5 tonne flatbed truck. But the best i can manage is that you could perhaps make a small garden on the flatbed and bring that with you on hols if you are mad for gardening. But even then, how are you gonna get worms and bugs and things into the soil? You'd have to keep topping up the friggin lawn as well as the fuel and oil man.

[Dick Cheeseburger]

1 hour ago, MarvinsMom said:

those are metric wheels, and there have been no new metric tyres made in 25-odd years..... especially in 160z6x315 to suit a metro.

you can still get 12 inch tyres though in a variety of sizes!

Surely there must be a way of getting modern equivalent sized tyres onto the rims...

[Cavcraft]

Pretty sure this has been listed at least once before. It's perfect right down to the fitted Perkins engine.

 

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/1982-Sherpa-Box-Van-and-Lots-of-New-Spares-Very-Rare-Box-Van-EX-BT/254469914366?hash=item3b3f96befe:g:lvUAAOSw1kxeDhN7

 

Hope it gets saved, there's some pretty class bonus background chod in at least one of the pictures.

[strangeangel]

5 minutes ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

But the best i can manage is that you could perhaps make a small garden on the flatbed and bring that with you on hols if you are mad for gardening. But even then, how are you gonna get worms and bugs and things into the soil? You'd have to keep topping up the friggin lawn as well as the fuel and oil man.

 

 

Perhaps that's it? I can see it now with a little white daggerboard fence round the back to keep the soil in, and a lovely veg patch that you could enjoy gazing upon from the back window of the caravan.

 

[spartacus]

Oh my god, this thread is fucking ace tonight, strangeangel, are you trying to coerce us into recreating 'Breaking Bad'?

[Mr_Bo11ox]

Looks like a B-series diesel to me!!! Perkins won't thank you for saying thats their handiwork!!!

[Cavcraft]

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Bedford-TM-Tipper-Classic-Lorry-Barn-find-Project/264587063818?hash=item3d9a9e320a:g:E9oAAOSwxOReD2pm

[Cavcraft]

1 minute ago, Mr_Bo11ox said:

Looks like a B-series diesel to me!!! Perkins won't thank you for saying thats their handiwork!!!

Didn't want it anyway, pile of shit Sherpa.

[Cavcraft]

Still less embarrassing than an Iv*co badge on the front, and I certainly wouldn't mind playing dressing down with those birds in the penultimate picture

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7-5-ton-lorry-insulated-mobile-home-shop-studio-horsebox-removal-lorry/193284084152?hash=item2d00a111b8:g:FGoAAOSwbv9dscYN

[Cavcraft]

Wrong gearbox, wrong fuel type, wrong price

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Ford-Transit-MK3-Pick-Up-1986-D-Reg/233453590907?hash=item365aeb197b:g:RikAAOSwh4BeDkRz

 

£7,500 'Not being rude but we are not worried about selling'

 

 

Not being rude also, but if Derek Acorah came back to life he wouldn't need to gaze too long into those crystal ball wheel trims to tell you that himself.

 

 

 

[UltraWomble]

12 minutes ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Surely there must be a way of getting modern equivalent sized tyres onto the rims...

Easiest option is either the 13 " MG alloys or 12" mini steelies route.

[mitsisigma01]

Is it really a D reg tranny, I thought they came from the factory with rust applied for free, all ford d regs seemed mingin years ago 

[TheIsleofShite]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Datsun-180-B-Estate-1973-Garage-barn-find-Rare-Datsun-Bluebird-estate180B-sss/233456776030?hash=item365b1bb35e:g:Wz8AAOSwR1FeElHG
 

Check this honey out!

[sdkrc]

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F202870377358

Postman Patrick and his black and white dog

[TooManyPeopleMovers]

On 12/30/2019 at 10:57 AM, gadgetgricey said:

I think a couple of bods on here owned one a while ago (Snagglepuss and Ken?????)

Seemed like a decent car if I remember rightly.

I have owned a couple of these - both 2.0 litre 4wd. Awesome little wagons with great power and very responsive steering (As far as tall wagons/people movers go). 

If I could afford a second car I'd have one in a heartbeat again. Sadly rust built in by Mitsubishi gets most of these (In New Zealand). 

[Mr Pastry]

7 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

And where in London can you buy a bijou, pied-a-Terry-and-June compact one bedroomed duplex linked luxury apartment with extensive waterside views for £29,995?

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/42ft-Springer-Narrowboat/174146808216?hash=item288bf56998:g:sscAAOSwQpNeEldq

 

There is certainly some sort of appeal to living in one of these. Probably the sort of appeal that wears off after 19 days when you try and have a crafty J Arthur in the shower, slip in the wooden bucket and your purple headed womb broom pokes through the rotten window frame and you expose yourself to Sean Bean there, causing him to throw his fag into those gas bottles and you ending up in A&E trying to explain away the 3rd degree burns on your custard launcher to a frowning nurse and your now homeless wife.

Canal boats look great until you discover that the canal and the mooring and just about everything else has to be paid for separately.   It can end up costing as much as a house.  I'd like to be proved wrong, but there are not many shite canal boats out there - at least not ones which float - and there is probably a good reason for that.  Sadly.

[Remspoor]

8 hours ago, Cavcraft said:

I've seen some pretty clever photography in my time, but capturing a mid-flight, upside down goose pissing on your neighbour's car is going to take some beating.

 

 

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CHEAP-CAR-Stock-Car-Currently-SORNED/333466491469?hash=item4da426da4d:g:5AQAAOSwbPld2WJV

Missed the fact they run over Boris. Remains of hair to show the evidence.

[New POD]

16 hours ago, Skizzer said:

Or there’s this slightly dishevelled Cortina 80 version for £1995 BINs. 

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F254426737291

(Am I the only person that still calls the mk5 a Cortina 80?)

My memory is looking at brochures because my Dad's company car was being replaced, and he was upgrading from a mk4 1.6 L estate to a mk4 series 80 1.6 GL estate. It will never be a mk5 to me.

My other later memory is that my sister in law owned a mk3 series 2 escort which people insist on calling a mk4.  It was a simple face lift. 

I owned a cavalier mk3, but feel free to call it a Vectra A if it helps obtain spares.

[New POD]

8 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Surely there must be a way of getting modern equivalent sized tyres onto the rims...

12 and 3/4 inch diameter tyres. In the 90s I used to buy my metro tyres from the scrap yard. You'd get 4 nearly new dunlop tyres, already attached to wheels, usually already balanced, for 30 quid.

There was so many metros that where mechanically fine but riddled with rust. 

[NorfolkNWeigh]

What is it with these camper people?

It appears the photographer interrupted this bloke vigorously admiring this wealthy hipster Portaloo.

[TataBobu]

I thought he was watering it, too.

[Tenmil Socket]

12 hours ago, MarvinsMom said:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/544160306411369/

this is at mini & metro spares in warrington, they will have bought it to break it up so i hope that it escapes to live again.

as its a nice looking late mark 1. all it needs is some 12 inch steels adding and then it would be perfect!

What an absolute honey!

[Snipes]

10 hours ago, Dick Longbridge said:

Surely there must be a way of getting modern equivalent sized tyres onto the rims...

No, as many  an unsuspecting fast-fitter has discovered to their bosses horror. That eighth of an inch (?) difference makes all the difference.

A relative of mine has an e34 520. They paid over a £1000 for a brand new set of metric Dunlops not long ago. Probably the equivalent of 225/55 15 I think? I could have gotten them some imperial BBS rims in the 15x7 or 8 range for cheap and saved them £500 on tyres if I had known.

[Cavcraft]

2 hours ago, Sir Snipes said:

No, as many  an unsuspecting fast-fitter has discovered to their bosses horror. That eighth of an inch (?) difference makes all the difference.

 

 

/\

 

What he said.

 

The metrics were funny sizes, nothing else fitted and you couldn't put tubes in them. They also constantly had to be re-sealed due to leaking round the beads, this being mostly due to the shit paint flaking away and the poor quality of the actual wheels.

 

 

[Snipes]

Those Metro metrics probably kept Colway remoulds in business for a few years longer than they may otherwise had been though.

[mitsisigma01]

I've got a set of metric BMW rims if anyone has a wanting for them 

[wuvvum]

6 hours ago, New POD said:

My other later memory is that my sister in law owned a mk3 series 2 escort which people insist on calling a mk4.  It was a simple face lift. 

If you follow that logic then the Mk2 Transit and Mk2 Fiesta never existed either.  In fact the current transit would only be the Mk4 rather than the Mk27 or whatever it is.  That would confuse a lot of people.

[New POD]

7 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

If you follow that logic then the Mk2 Transit and Mk2 Fiesta never existed either.  In fact the current transit would only be the Mk4 rather than the Mk27 or whatever it is.  That would confuse a lot of people.

Well, given the interchangeable parts between mk1 and mk2 fiesta, especially in the first few months, I'd be fine with that. 

[egg]

For our next group purchase roffle...?

£400.

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/593153804808128/

[spartacus]

I'm in if you think it's a goer!