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My Car..

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A Brummie Dude
GER22VAN. it is a standard 23c 4 pot engine,1957 fergie gray gold delux.
 
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Peter. I think it was an early type thats why I have not recognised it too well. Fergie the short name for Massey Fergason. I bet thats done a few miles and a lot of hard work in its time.
 
re my sports car

ger22van, 1973 it was put in a shed 203 we draged it out,put new oil etc in and towed it down the road to free the clutch and it has run since. pete
 
Peter. You cannot beat a diesel engine, as long as they have oil,and water
they will go on and on and on. ( these days probably need to keep a check on the perishables as I would call them like the drive belts and filters.
I have the Ford Focus 1.8 Turbo Diesel estate.
 
Remy sports car

ger22van. I had a 1.8 escort finese tdi,nice car.now i have my late sisters fiesta 1.2. what a drop in power. pete
 
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Been for a walk, were,through a tme warp?,The last horse and cart i saw in england belonged to the coop, it looked like draculars carrage.Going down the meadway
 
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Peter. This is part of a family history thing, but I guess it also fits on here well. Can anyone date it as either pre 1914 or post 1914 ?
Not too good a Photograph.View attachment 10667
The building in the background is still standing today, I give you one guess.
Spalding railway station.
 
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re gosta green

GER22VAN. I had a three weel car a meshersmitt, sorry cant spell it,
one night at the dunlop club i offered a girl a lift home,when she saw my car she said s*d off,i will use the bus.
peter martin
 
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ger22van.true i am trying to get some thing that is cheaper on fuel than my car.that is why i had a look at the bikes.i found 2 today a c90 and that nsu thingy.back and fro to the beach etc cost a bomb in petrol. pete
 
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Sorry to be a pedant but the [Grey] Fergie was made my Standard Motors long before the sale of the Harry Ferguson tractors to Massey Harris Company of Canada.

See brief Biog of Harry Ferguson
 
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Pete. Did'nt the c90 used to rust around the top of the rear mudguard, something to watch out for,
Alf. Thank you for your post. Ta Mate. You know I have never so far come across one with no mudguards so I cannot date the lorry but it must have been around the time of WW1 or just before.
Bernie. Thank you for your post, I am learning every day, Ta Mate.
 
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ernie.i do not know,this one is like brand new.only done a few hundred miles.ok for the summer if we get any. pete
 
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Pete. With what you say I wonder if they are still making them ?
If you do decide to have it I hope that you will get loads and loads of fun from it ( if you see that girl just ride passed with your nose up.) Just a thought can you get SPARES? the mechanical kind that is.
 
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GER22VAN, that truck looks very early to me - 1910 or before. I don't recognise the make, could even be American.
 
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You could be correct Lloyd as there is now steering wheel showing on the right hand side of the windscreen.
 
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It seems to have family resemblances to this later first war American 'Liberty' truck, on metal rather than wooden wheels but I'm still searching.
 
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Got it!
American 'Liberty', c1917. (Americans stuck with wooden wheels longer then us Brits!)

They were a standardised design, to military specification.
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"When the Allied Forces landed in France in 1917, they scrambled for every truck available at the time. An inventory later revealed 294 defferent makes, of these 213 were produced in the US with 60,000 non-interchangable parts. The military realized they needed to standardize their trucks, and the Liberty Truck or 'USA Truck' was born". - Hayes Truck Museum[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]After the first war, many soldiers who had learnt to drive and repair their trucks would buy one after demob, and start a transport business. I'd guess that's what this guy did-there were lots of military equipment sales just after the great war where many army (British) AEC and Daimler lorries were sold, I'd guess the American ones were a bit cheaper as the spares would have further to come![/FONT]

Here's an identical model in an American museum - probably the [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Hayes Truck Museum[/FONT]

https://www.hankstruckpictures.com/pix/trucks/joe_bohannon/2004/nov/p1010024.jpg
 
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Hi All.
The Honda 50/70/90 bikes all had a problem with rust under the rear mudguard , it could fail the MOT if to bad. Great little runabouts, had several of them and very reliable.Once brought a 4foot fire surround and fire on the back of one of them across the city in the rush hour and survived!
Pete
 
GER22VAN.i bet you are on about the plank.my brother.he got stopped for having a dog on the petrol tank. but they told him off. pete
 
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Oh I'm sorry, but once I start reading about old fashioned cars with an underbelly nipple cam etc...I lose the will to live..I drive bloody cars, I don't want to sleep with them..still, anything that floats your boat.
 
Pete 1st ( Pete the 2nd must be Bilsat ) Your brother should have told them that he was a mascot on the tank. ( Bless him pete )
 
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