Impromptu BL line up
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Back home, after the L for Lotus nonsense, more L related craziness has been occurring. Viz:
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What happened!
Mr Tommy Kiely of Ring, near Dungarven, County Waterford, has kindly rebuilt the ignition system on the Sherpa. For this he has charged me a whole fifty Euros - the robber! I must arrange to break down in his area again.
The train from Dublin to Waterford and the cab to Ring together cost more than the van repair. I then drove the heap 220 km up to Dublin for a late kip and an early start for this morning's Dublin to Holyhead sailing. We have just left the docks.
The train from Dublin to Waterford and the cab to Ring together cost more than the van repair. I then drove the heap 220 km up to Dublin for a late kip and an early start for this morning's Dublin to Holyhead sailing. We have just left the docks.
Edited by anonymous-user on Saturday 26th August 08:35
I moved the van forward slightly and halted for each photo. By luck, we were just arriving at the car park for Hook Head Lighthouse in County Wexford when the van hit 100K. The lighthouse, BTW, was built in the C13 and is still operating.
PS: the fuel gauge doesn't work. I work on the basis of 20 MPG and a range of 200 miles from full. This may improve a bit if I get overdrive fitted.
PS: the fuel gauge doesn't work. I work on the basis of 20 MPG and a range of 200 miles from full. This may improve a bit if I get overdrive fitted.
Edited by anonymous-user on Sunday 27th August 07:42
Breadvan72 said:
I moved the van forward slightly and halted for each photo. By luck, we were just arriving at the car park for Hook Head Lighthouse in County Wexford when the van hit 100K. The lighthouse, BTW, was built in the C13 and is still operating.
PS: the fuel gauge doesn't work. I work on the basis of 20 MPG and a range of 200 miles from full. This may improve a bit if I get overdrive fitted.
Can I commend you on your holiday destination, hope you had a good time, my mum lives in Ferns, co.Wexford and my aunt has a holiday cottage in Slade on the Hook peninsula, it's a beautiful part of the world. My dad owned a Sherpa back in the late 70's for his dry cleaning business in Piccadilly, he used to curse that it used to take him longer to do the collections as the Transit it replaced had a sliding drivers door that he would leave open (you wouldn't leave anything in London nowadays open and running)PS: the fuel gauge doesn't work. I work on the basis of 20 MPG and a range of 200 miles from full. This may improve a bit if I get overdrive fitted.
Edited by Breadvan72 on Sunday 27th August 07:42
Excellent choice of vehicle there, I always liked these back in the day and I think that was down to seeing the Sherpa in "The Spy Who Loved Me". In fact Jaws seems to carry out his own camper van conversion !
Also they had the same style steering wheel as our old Austin 1800 Mk III so that really clinched it!
Amazing how these things stick in the memory !!
Also they had the same style steering wheel as our old Austin 1800 Mk III so that really clinched it!
Amazing how these things stick in the memory !!
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