Some of the BBS Standards were used for shifting massive cast ingots to the forges. The cabs of these things is never the coolest place to work but with tens of tons of near red hot metal on the back they must have been unbearable.

The BBS Standards were well known. The old man remembers going up there in the 1960s when they were selling them off but they were very, very rough. They had worked them very hard for a very long time and back then when restoring things was pretty much unheard of they were far too far gone for most....

It is interesting all ready! When are some of us ever going to see the next thing to factory-fresh Matador bits? These are next to factory fresh Matador bits. Most of the winch was built by Turner but that universal joint is all AEC. Hopefully we should be able to get the rest of it collected in th...

The winch tedium continues... The shaft was put in the little Swift and the bronze bush machined off it. It was seized solid and the only bit left was the thrust face seen sitting forlornly. It is obvious that the bush was replaced at some point but the clearance was hopelessly tight and there were ...

You always knew when an S Type appeared that it was going to crash shortly afterwards. If it was a car full of wrong 'uns you could pass it off as a stolen mow-ah but it was when they had some supposed captain of industry smoking round in a blown over banger with very wonky shutlines things didn't l...

After a lengthy period away from diesel lorries while we did things that were not even remotely military vehicle related we've found another project. We did a Pioneer earlier but never really liked driving it on the road because you always felt you were fighting the gearbox. Talking to a few people ...

Mmmm, stoopid front end and shaft drive. With this heavy ugliness the Ambassador is truly spoiling us.

No, forks, like chains, just bloody work. Any effort to replace them is an utter failure.

How many rose joints, arms, cranks and rods to do what? Look a bit different?



However, to tell the whole truth the 1D did look rather groovy to my 1990s eyes. Pointless but groovy.

You have to love crap ideas like hub centre steering. The amount of effort burned on solving a problem that doesn't exist.

cf bloody wankel engines.