RE: Shed Of The Week: Leyland Convoy
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The Crack Fox said:
Yes, but it's OUR unrepentant heap of s
t. It's a shed, and I am bored by obvious choices, all hail the shed, say I!
I'd have hours of fun in that; Grappling with ladies of low self-esteem and easy virtue in the back, fly tipping, helping friends move house, lumping bikes about, parking with hazards on outside the post-office instead of using an NCP, smashing lumps out of selfish berks in white range rovers who park in two bays (why is it always white range rovers), eating dirty food with my feet on the dash, reading the sport in traffic jams and offering inbound immigrants a free ride from Calais just to annoy Daily Mail readers. I'd be an 'orrible 'ooligan.
I want one.
Lol. Brilliant!t. It's a shed, and I am bored by obvious choices, all hail the shed, say I! I'd have hours of fun in that; Grappling with ladies of low self-esteem and easy virtue in the back, fly tipping, helping friends move house, lumping bikes about, parking with hazards on outside the post-office instead of using an NCP, smashing lumps out of selfish berks in white range rovers who park in two bays (why is it always white range rovers), eating dirty food with my feet on the dash, reading the sport in traffic jams and offering inbound immigrants a free ride from Calais just to annoy Daily Mail readers. I'd be an 'orrible 'ooligan.
I want one.
V8 TEJ said:
The Crack Fox said:
Yes, but it's OUR unrepentant heap of st. It's a shed, and I am bored by obvious choices, all hail the shed, say I!
I'd have hours of fun in that; Grappling with ladies of low self-esteem and easy virtue in the back, fly tipping, helping friends move house, lumping bikes about, parking with hazards on outside the post-office instead of using an NCP, smashing lumps out of selfish berks in white range rovers who park in two bays (why is it always white range rovers), eating dirty food with my feet on the dash, reading the sport in traffic jams and offering inbound immigrants a free ride from Calais just to annoy Daily Mail readers. I'd be an 'orrible 'ooligan.
I want one.
Lol. Brilliant!t. It's a shed, and I am bored by obvious choices, all hail the shed, say I! I'd have hours of fun in that; Grappling with ladies of low self-esteem and easy virtue in the back, fly tipping, helping friends move house, lumping bikes about, parking with hazards on outside the post-office instead of using an NCP, smashing lumps out of selfish berks in white range rovers who park in two bays (why is it always white range rovers), eating dirty food with my feet on the dash, reading the sport in traffic jams and offering inbound immigrants a free ride from Calais just to annoy Daily Mail readers. I'd be an 'orrible 'ooligan.
I want one.
As anyone who has driven one of these for any... hang on.
AS ANYONE WHO HAS DRIVEN ONE OF THESE FOR ANY DISTANCE WILL KNOW, they are to NVH what Motorhead is to whale song music. As I;ve mentioned before on PH I drove our (firm's) LDV 400 pick up from the Midlands to Ken and back in a day. On the way back on the M40, I had to stop at Oxford services; I didn't need a piss, it didn't need fuel, I simply just had to switch the fking engine off before my head exploded and have 5 mins walking around outside, being in an environment that wasn;t shaking my fillings out.
But it would shift some weight and never put a foot wrong...
AS ANYONE WHO HAS DRIVEN ONE OF THESE FOR ANY DISTANCE WILL KNOW, they are to NVH what Motorhead is to whale song music. As I;ve mentioned before on PH I drove our (firm's) LDV 400 pick up from the Midlands to Ken and back in a day. On the way back on the M40, I had to stop at Oxford services; I didn't need a piss, it didn't need fuel, I simply just had to switch the f
king engine off before my head exploded and have 5 mins walking around outside, being in an environment that wasn;t shaking my fillings out.But it would shift some weight and never put a foot wrong...
Unlike Transits you still see a lot of old LDVs about which suggests they may be more durable than the average van. This could of course be a way of ensuring the torture is well drawn out.
They certainly appear less rot resistant than Mercedes who appear to have wrestled the mantle of rusty young van from Ford in an attempt to emulate the Bedford CF...
They certainly appear less rot resistant than Mercedes who appear to have wrestled the mantle of rusty young van from Ford in an attempt to emulate the Bedford CF...
The Crack Fox said:
Yes, but it's OUR unrepentant heap of st. It's a shed, and I am bored by obvious choices, all hail the shed, say I!
I'd have hours of fun in that; Grappling with ladies of low self-esteem and easy virtue in the back, fly tipping, helping friends move house, lumping bikes about, parking with hazards on outside the post-office instead of using an NCP, smashing lumps out of selfish berks in white range rovers who park in two bays (why is it always white range rovers), eating dirty food with my feet on the dash, reading the sport in traffic jams and offering inbound immigrants a free ride from Calais just to annoy Daily Mail readers. I'd be an 'orrible 'ooligan.
I want one.
t. It's a shed, and I am bored by obvious choices, all hail the shed, say I! I'd have hours of fun in that; Grappling with ladies of low self-esteem and easy virtue in the back, fly tipping, helping friends move house, lumping bikes about, parking with hazards on outside the post-office instead of using an NCP, smashing lumps out of selfish berks in white range rovers who park in two bays (why is it always white range rovers), eating dirty food with my feet on the dash, reading the sport in traffic jams and offering inbound immigrants a free ride from Calais just to annoy Daily Mail readers. I'd be an 'orrible 'ooligan.
I want one.
For some reason I often find that the worse a vehicle is, the more fun I have thrashing in it...
...err, I mean "thrashing it".
I co-owned an ex MG X-Power high top LDV van a few years ago, it was apparently the tow vehicle for Gwyndaf Evans Rover 200 rally car and had metallic grey paint (on the outside) with full MG racing graphics.
It had been fitted out with 6 seats and a mini workshop in the back with a roller shutter like the PO vans.
It didn't give too much trouble other than the kingpins needing shimming and the gutter rusting where the extended GRP roof was stuck on.
25062007564 by paul.harbord, on Flickr
25062007563 by paul.harbord, on Flickr
It had been fitted out with 6 seats and a mini workshop in the back with a roller shutter like the PO vans.
It didn't give too much trouble other than the kingpins needing shimming and the gutter rusting where the extended GRP roof was stuck on.
25062007564 by paul.harbord, on Flickr25062007563 by paul.harbord, on Flickr
I'd have this over the Metro from a few weeks back, but only because you could fit more junk in it before you dumped it and set it on fire.
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate something left field every now and again from SotW, but this does nothing for me... except the thought of scraping it up the side of badly parked cars, that appeals a lot!
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate something left field every now and again from SotW, but this does nothing for me... except the thought of scraping it up the side of badly parked cars, that appeals a lot!
RobinBanks said:
CDP said:
They certainly appear less rot resistant than Mercedes who appear to have wrestled the mantle of rusty young van from Ford in an attempt to emulate the Bedford CF...
Less rot prone or more rot resistant, maybe?Edited by CDP on Friday 7th August 13:06
Rarely do I 'LOL' when reading something whilst office-bound, but today, I did! Fantastic stuff.
And a total heap - our Venture Scout unit had one which was pressed into service moving 15 lads from Surrey to Inverness. Pleasurable, quiet and smooth it was not. It did have a monster roof rack which we all sat on and then forced the Scout leader to drive us around - thinking about it now, that thing was really begging to be flipped with 1000kg of human on top!!
And a total heap - our Venture Scout unit had one which was pressed into service moving 15 lads from Surrey to Inverness. Pleasurable, quiet and smooth it was not. It did have a monster roof rack which we all sat on and then forced the Scout leader to drive us around - thinking about it now, that thing was really begging to be flipped with 1000kg of human on top!!
SOTW is always so much better when it's a bit of a leftfield choice; if some forumites had their way then the running order would be: old 3 series, 9-5, MR2, old 3 series, 9-5, MR2, old 3 series, 9-5, MR2 etc etc. having said that, the only reason I'd buy this week's specimen would be to park it outside the house of a neighbour that had grievously offended me.
We had them at work, they were not narrower than a Transit, they were about a foot wider. We used them because you could cram more crap into the back than just about any other 3.5 tonne van at the time, other than the Iveco Daily, which were ruinous on diesel, and possibly even more badly put together than the Convoy.
There was rejoicing at our spot when they started putting the Ford engines in them, the ancient Pug was painfully slow, and had a nasty habit of dropping the rear cylinder liner at the slightest hint of overheating, which they all did due to the radiators furring up.
It was a revelation when I received a new Merc 614 Vario.
There was rejoicing at our spot when they started putting the Ford engines in them, the ancient Pug was painfully slow, and had a nasty habit of dropping the rear cylinder liner at the slightest hint of overheating, which they all did due to the radiators furring up.
It was a revelation when I received a new Merc 614 Vario.
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