Vintage trucks.

[s.varty]

13 minutes ago, openspaceman said:

P100??

Well spotted, white and rust, They wernt bad pickups to be fair 

[Rich Rule]

9 hours ago, Tree monkey 1682 said:

I believe my ex boss, had a rb 4x4 with arial platform on ,slow,  noisey, wide, top heavy and crap ...dont know what it was ever meant to be poor man's mog or landrover ?

sounds familiar, was it yellow?

[PeteB]

Ken Tyrell was a tree bloke, as was John Surtess if my memory is correct?

 

Keith Barrowcliff was an Uncle and he had a few Ruddington trucks and converted them to Cranes, tractor units and drugs. He died after an incident after trying to get under a rail bridge with the jib up. Some 30 years later, I brought it from the brambles in a yard unaware of the history then cut it up and took it to Makyntyres in Nottingham as scrap.

[markieg31]

22 hours ago, AHPP said:

I know a guy in Suffolk who restores them, on the off chance anyone is in need. 

Matt?

[markieg31]

16 hours ago, woody paul said:

The reason you don't see many is they rotted well. 

Remember see a fabricator / welder repairing cab on one, he said was costing more then truck was worth. 

Think taxing one was a bit of a grey area, most got away with agri or multi use. 

Last arb one I saw for sale was taxed agri had turboed perkins engine fitted. 

There were not many RB44's to start with. They are 4.5t I think so are over 3.5t and attract commercial tax rates. I looked at one but due to the newer regs it could only be registered as limited use within 10km of your holding. You can down rate it to 3.5t so you could drive on car licence but then you have no payload. Ideally you would have one that had previously been ag registered so you can run it on red. 

As in size it is the same dimensions as a mwb transit 17x7 feet. 

 

[AHPP]

35 minutes ago, markieg31 said:

Matt?

I don’t know. A_____y is my guy but it’s not his business. He just works there 

Edited 12 hours ago by AHPP

[woody paul]

43 minutes ago, markieg31 said:

Matt?

Matt is the owner, has a lot of contacts he does a bit of work for Crouch working on old trucks. 

 

Edited 12 hours ago by woody paul

[openspaceman]

9 hours ago, PeteB said:

Ken Tyrell was a tree bloke,

Very much so, his brothers were still in the tree business  after the 1987 storm. 

[Tree monkey 1682]

11 hours ago, Rich Rule said:

sounds familiar, was it yellow?

These were grey/ silver  of the ex 80s , 90s  ex sse ..what ever the electricity board was back then . Not national grid 

[Tree monkey 1682]

16 hours ago, s.varty said:

Well spotted, white and rust, They wernt bad pickups to be fair 

P100 were good , g&t had one when I did work experiance