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Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: sleeplessparadise on May 29, 2006, 15:13:48: Coming home from Bedfordshire last week having visited Thumbs for our engine we spotted this beaut on the back of a truck. Didnt have my proper camera so the quality isnt brill but I had to get a pic of it :lol: I think it is probably the most unusual thing I have ever seen on a road.
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: Colin 009 on May 29, 2006, 16:10:18: Very nice 8)
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: strapping young lad on May 29, 2006, 16:39:22: saw this on the m6 (as you will see in the picture..

it was quite noisy (the tyres were anyway)

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Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: blackbob on May 29, 2006, 16:44:23: Quote from: "strapping young lad"
saw this on the m6 (as you will see in the picture..

it was quite noisy (the tyres were anyway)

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i like that :D
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: landroverkeith on May 29, 2006, 16:55:00: oooo thats nice :)
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: strapping young lad on May 29, 2006, 17:16:38: whatever those icelandic trucks are called this was called the same thing.

i know it was cos i remember it at the time but now i cant remember their names

oh what age does to the grey matter :)
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: freeagent on May 29, 2006, 18:21:12: i saw a 1940's Scammel (think it was an explorer) on the M25 this afternoon, towing a pretty big trailer... 6x6 in army green.....

.....had a huge quee of traffic behind it as it was only doing about 30mph... well done that man... nice rig.
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: freeagent on May 29, 2006, 18:21:29: i saw a 1940's Scammel (think it was an explorer) on the M25 this afternoon, towing a pretty big trailer... 6x6 in army green.....

.....had a huge quee of traffic behind it as it was only doing about 30mph... well done that man... nice rig.
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: bezzabsa on May 29, 2006, 18:31:24: Seen quite a few Trains being moved - usually by ALLELYS, based about 15 miles from me..
last week saw 2 HUGE earth movers being moved down the A34 , best one was seeing a steam traction engine on the back of an Immaculate VOLVO F88 being fired up and steaming - on the M62!! dont know the legality of that but I suppose it saves time at the destination!!
Seen quite a few 'strange' things going on in cars too...but thats a different story ;) Oh the Joys of being a Lorry driver!!!!
(so who else has seen a Naked driver? male or female!!)
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: bezzabsa on May 29, 2006, 18:31:48: removed cos it was there twice!!
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: strapping young lad on May 29, 2006, 18:46:45: if anyone here can remember the top gear episode where hammond drives a 911 over some mountains (not the isle of man) and i think he drove it down pendine too

anyway that bit where hes driving across some windy roads is in the preseli mountains where i was brought up..

anyway on that same stretch of road that goes from haverfordwest to cardigan i was driving my dad's same and i spotted a couple going for it in a maestro with a duvet on top of them

when i slowed down and beeped i got the finger (i presume it was clean! ;) )
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: hobbit on May 29, 2006, 19:08:24: Quote from: "freeagent"
i saw a 1940's Scammel (think it was an explorer) on the M25 this afternoon, towing a pretty big trailer... 6x6 in army green.....

.....had a huge quee of traffic behind it as it was only doing about 30mph... well done that man... nice rig.

It was going flat out then, they were limited to 32mpg :wink:
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: Manicminer on May 29, 2006, 19:37:49: Since I'm living within 30 miles of 4 steam railways I get to see the odd train on the back of a lorry.
Title: Amazing what you see on the roads
Post by: dew1911 on May 29, 2006, 19:43:53: I used to have to make the run to Birkenhead near enough once a fortnight so I saw all kinds of wierd things, including one weekend 5 8x8 Scamell T24 (or was it T26, the Leyland Based Cabover ones) in convoy.