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ZR1cliff
Original Poster
17,768 posts
118 months
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Mine would be the AEC's from the 60's due to the annual funfair using AEC 8 leggers. 
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jagracer
6,722 posts
105 months
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I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time
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ZR1cliff
Original Poster
17,768 posts
118 months
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jagracer said: I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time Would love to have a drive of one.
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Getragdogleg
3,662 posts
52 months
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jagracer said: I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time Bloody softy.  I drove a Beford TK with no power steering for three years, I am 6foot and anyone who knows TKs will tell you that the TK is best suited to the shorter driver, if I sat straight I could only see about 8 feet in front of me due to my vision being blocked by the roof. Coupled with the non-turbo engine and the noise and lack of effective heating I can honestly say it was excellent fun and I loved it. We still run an older fleet, the newest lorry is a 2002 Seddon Atkinson with a Palfinger crane on it, Awesome for our neck of the woods as it can get down our lanes and has good ground clearance and still carry a 20ft container and deliver it. I think it is my favorite right now. Here it is picking up an old Marker Buoy. 
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ZR1cliff
Original Poster
17,768 posts
118 months
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My favourite present day truck is the Renault Magnum. We had two, but they went to Africa and I never got the chance to drive one. 
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4key
3,879 posts
17 months
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Old scanias do it for me, travelled all around europe with my dad during school holidays when I was very young. Managed to smash the windscreen on a 111 with my head bouncing about in the cab like zebedee apparently Can remember a few trips in these ones, running in convoy and playing eye spy with the other drivers over the cb  
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jagracer
6,722 posts
105 months
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Getragdogleg said: jagracer said: I can assure you It wouldn't be if you had to drive one all the time Bloody softy. I drove a Beford TK with no power steering for three years, I am 6foot and anyone who knows TKs will tell you that the TK is best suited to the shorter driver, if I sat straight I could only see about 8 feet in front of me due to my vision being blocked by the roof. Coupled with the non-turbo engine and the noise and lack of effective heating I can honestly say it was excellent fun and I loved it. Softy indeed, I used to drive them and TK and TM Bedford amongst many other old dogs that I'd never want to get in again, try a Chinese six Scammell Routeman artic with no power steering. Give me a new Volvo, or even Scania if I had no choice, any day. why be uncomfortable when you don't need to be.
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Forthright MC
7,799 posts
152 months
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Getragdogleg said: Here it is picking up an old Marker Buoy. Thats lovely! Did i clock seveal Atkis from this fleet in Trucking mag just recently per chance? My classic fave has to be the venerable Scania 3 Series -  Find these so appealing on many levels and i've heard they're one of THE drivers trucks of choice too. Can't beat the sound of a 143M 450-500 V8 on open pipes either, throbtastic!  My current fave is the MAN TGX -  One of the nicest looking current models out there IMO and they suit most liveries very nicely too.
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chilistrucker
1,489 posts
20 months
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4key said: Old scanias do it for me, travelled all around europe with my dad during school holidays when I was very young. Managed to smash the windscreen on a 111 with my head bouncing about in the cab like zebedee apparently Can remember a few trips in these ones, running in convoy and playing eye spy with the other drivers over the cb i reckon these old scanias will get alot of votes, always seemed to be, even to this day, very popular. i was the same as you, started going out when i was a kid at school, old 111's first, then 112  i used to love the summer holidays
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chilistrucker
1,489 posts
20 months
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 on the old subject, these were in the tyre fitters yard in russia where we were getting a rim sorted.
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ZR1cliff
Original Poster
17,768 posts
118 months
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Is that an old Scammell, Chilstrucker? Talking of scammells. Got to be one of the strangest looking old trucks and my least favourite. 
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chilistrucker
1,489 posts
20 months
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i'm not sure cliff, i think it was an old state built thing, wouldn't mind betting it was 6 wheel drive aswell. i bet it does better in the winter out there than our dafs would.
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BigS
851 posts
42 months
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chilistrucker
1,489 posts
20 months
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i bet if i went back there in 20 years time, they'd still be working.
they had loads of wierd and wonderful stuff dotted around.
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ClaphamGT3
3,362 posts
112 months
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4key said: Old scanias do it for me, travelled all around europe with my dad during school holidays when I was very young. Managed to smash the windscreen on a 111 with my head bouncing about in the cab like zebedee apparently Can remember a few trips in these ones, running in convoy and playing eye spy with the other drivers over the cb I now have The JCB Song going around my head
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BigS
851 posts
42 months
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chilistrucker said: i bet if i went back there in 20 years time, they'd still be working.
they had loads of wierd and wonderful stuff dotted around. I wouldn't be surprised either, I don't think you need much more than a hammer to be able to fix them
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martin mrt
2,068 posts
70 months
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Favourite present truck is without question a Scania R Series, I drive one of the first 54 plate ones, and had two newer ones where I worked previously, and have been offered a newer SSC105 as a "step up" from the Scania, not a chance, I'll stick with this one until the end, or I get another Scania.
Favourite truck of the past is the 2/3 series Scanias, I remember seeing them and the first if the streamline 3 series, and thinking how smart they were.
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Chipchap
1,199 posts
66 months
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During my time with Scania Nov 1989 until July 1997 I flogged about 650 new and used Scania's of all types. My favourite truck of all time is unsurprisinglt an R143 Topline Streamline in 450 or 470 guise. Such a delight to drive. Some above made reference to old British twin steers. Attached are some images of trucks that my dad operated in the 70's [library images on some] My Dad & My youngest Brother in 1973 in front of an AEC Mandator TG6Re twin steer. AV760 engine. PDC 827H where are you now ?  We also had a Scammell Trunker 2 with a Leyland 680 Power Plus engine and 6spd Scammell gearbox. Looked just like this one.  A nice side on shot of a 6x2 AEC just like ours was. 
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GC8
9,495 posts
59 months
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Getragdogleg said: Eaton Twin Split and a constant battle with door corrosion?
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Getragdogleg
3,662 posts
52 months
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GC8 said: Eaton Twin Split and a constant battle with door corrosion? Not this one, this has the 4 over 4 with the air knock over. Also, I waxed the hell out of the doors (well, whole cab) on this one and its still perfect 10 years on. I have some experience of how good at rusting these Iveco cabs are now and I have a spare cab waiting for when I need it. Yes, I am a hoarder.
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