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My goldmine findDarrenW
@darrenw
Club Retro Rides Member 74
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Sept 2, 2004 13:28:58 GMT
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This place was less than two miles from where I was staying, near Ross-On-Wye. If anyone wants more info, PM me. I tried to get in touch with the land owner but no joy... So I have no idea if any of these are for sale or whatever... Dead amabassador:
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My goldmine findDarrenW
@darrenw
Club Retro Rides Member 74
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Sept 2, 2004 13:29:47 GMT
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Austin Gypsy? Sad looking Volvo It's an Austin, but what?
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Sept 2, 2004 13:39:03 GMT
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You should send some those pics to classic car mag!
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I like long walks, especially when they're taken by people I don't like.
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Sept 2, 2004 14:23:10 GMT
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;D all in one.... The Gypsy is cool! was it that or the champ that could go as fast in reverse as it could forward?
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spiny
Club Retro Rides Member
Wiki Admin
I am abivalent towards car electrics ...
Posts: 1,330
Club RR Member Number: 167
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My goldmine findspiny
@spiny
Club Retro Rides Member 167
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Sept 2, 2004 15:34:57 GMT
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this gives me the horn re Champ - yup, they could go about 50 in reverse
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Sept 2, 2004 15:38:38 GMT
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that fact alone was responsible for quite a few dead squaddies.... (allegedly)
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SkoCan
Posted a lot
Quando omni flunkus, mortati
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Sept 2, 2004 17:31:48 GMT
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Celeste? Yes
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Sept 2, 2004 17:32:46 GMT
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Yep, all the commercial vehicles here are BMCs, mostly Austins, although some of the bigger vans could be Morris badged or Austins, they were practically the same. The big one seems to have been repaired badly a number of times, but originally most of these would have been regular vans, or pickups, and a number served as 'black Maria police vans.
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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Sept 2, 2004 20:57:38 GMT
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3 gypsys! The Austin Champ has 5 forward and 5 reverse speeds, albeit with a forward reverse transfer box. Shame it was such a complicated beast... The Italian army would of loved them! ;D
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I'm dressed in black again until someone invents a darker colour.
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Sept 2, 2004 21:26:26 GMT
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The problem is that the Gypsy/Champ is closer to a commercial vehicle for off road use than a civilian off road car, so anyone familiar with the standard 4x4, but not with a commercial type of idea, with various reverse speeds, and genuine technique to getting through the tough terrain (as opposed to the Land Rover, which is beautifully simple for such a motor and just ploughs on through the mud regardless) now put a Scammell Pioneer driver in a Champ and he'll be right at home. (Although the driver probably has more room in the Champ, knowing cab design in that period! ;D) Image removed due to high risk of wierdo action.V AUSTIN CHAMP V
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"He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"
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this gives me the horn What about a juiced one then? Meet Anabelle (RIP ) another scary item from the world of scrapingscrap. He actually used to drive that thing! ;D
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Last Edit: Sept 3, 2004 8:12:23 GMT by rmad
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image removed to save us from the sickoRevolution...you might want to do the same...heaven forbid you post a picture of a Scammel truck! Call the police! Someone's looking at a picture.
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Last Edit: Sept 3, 2004 8:35:01 GMT by rmad
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Scary! I've just looked at planefacts.co.uk/copyright as suggested in the link earlier...the guy is a loony! I'm fully understanding of his bandwidth problems...but I think he's gone a bit over the top here. He's even got a 'hall of shame' where he boasts about replacing his 'stolen' images with repulsive gay porn images....a far worse crime in my opinion. Isn't the internet about sharing? Isn't the point of pictures for people to look at? The man is quite clearly a wierd sicko. I'm going to remove the 'stolen' image link from my previous and leave the sad sicko to look at his own pictures on his own. Hopefully that will save us from being 'punished' by the 'picture police'. Sad and sick.
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Now he ought to be reported for posting images of that nature without warning. It's far more offensive, and possibly illegal, to show images like that than it is to link to other peoples images. T*sser.
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Peugeot 307sw - Suzuki SV650S - MX5.
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