Title: Earl bird etc.........
Post by: Tim on May 22, 2003, 06:13:47 pm
Could be one of the first departures, leaving from Huddersfield on the 7th advanced Yorkshire scouts of gang of 12, camping at bottom end of MB right hand side as usual. rest arriving Wedneday and Thursday.
Travelling in Morris ex Glasgow ambulance, max 50 mph
crossing Hull - Zeebrugge. Is it for sure that payment required for early arrival? very shabby if so.
Are we the first departures? staying Chatel Sunday then flat out Monday to arrive and set up.
See you at road side in Arnage village, me big bugger on a push bike.
Travelling in Morris ex Glasgow ambulance, max 50 mph
crossing Hull - Zeebrugge. Is it for sure that payment required for early arrival? very shabby if so.
Are we the first departures? staying Chatel Sunday then flat out Monday to arrive and set up.
See you at road side in Arnage village, me big bugger on a push bike.
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: IanB on May 22, 2003, 08:37:42 pm
Liverpool boys are on the Sunday night boat Portsmouth-Caen should arrive MB about 12 to 1 after a few sherbets
camping nearer to the track . big white garage Ford Ranger and small car trailer should give us away
See you there
Ianb
camping nearer to the track . big white garage Ford Ranger and small car trailer should give us away
See you there
Ianb
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: Andy Zarse on May 23, 2003, 01:55:03 pm
Is it a Morris JU250? If so you'll be lucky to get there in time for the start of the race! Why did they make an ambulance out of such a slow vehicle?
PS I speak as a Commer PB owner, a thoroughbred in comparison!
PS I speak as a Commer PB owner, a thoroughbred in comparison!
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: smokie on May 23, 2003, 06:17:22 pm
Dover Calais Sunday am here, stopping overnight just past Roeun then arriving Mon late morning...
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: BigH on May 23, 2003, 08:33:25 pm
Andy, how come you're so knowledgable about vintage english commercial vehicles?
Is there a Fred Dibnah Zarse visible in your party. (obviously it's visible when he's half way up the stack. Or down, for that matter). Don't get me wrong, it's very commendable, and I'm genuinely impressed, unless these things like this are passed down by word of mouth and in stories around the campfire, children will forget that we were once a proud nation of manufacturing, and innovation and of hope and glory and isn't the queen marvellous I was at Violets funeral y'know...
Gnnnn...
Is there a Fred Dibnah Zarse visible in your party. (obviously it's visible when he's half way up the stack. Or down, for that matter). Don't get me wrong, it's very commendable, and I'm genuinely impressed, unless these things like this are passed down by word of mouth and in stories around the campfire, children will forget that we were once a proud nation of manufacturing, and innovation and of hope and glory and isn't the queen marvellous I was at Violets funeral y'know...
Gnnnn...
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: bgeorge104 on May 23, 2003, 10:27:38 pm
We're (wife & two kids 7.5 & 3.5) leaving 29th May Portsmouth to Le Havre, driving down to Vence nr Nice for the Monaco GP for 7 days then driving back north to Le Mans. :P
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: Jeffa on May 23, 2003, 10:30:20 pm
Nice Holiday!!
How did you persuade the wife to agree to that?
How did you persuade the wife to agree to that?
Title: Re:Earl bird etc.........
Post by: Andy Zarse on May 27, 2003, 04:03:59 pm
Andy, how come you're so knowledgable about vintage english commercial vehicles?
Is there a Fred Dibnah Zarse visible in your party. (obviously it's visible when he's half way up the stack. Or down, for that matter). Don't get me wrong, it's very commendable, and I'm genuinely impressed, unless these things like this are passed down by word of mouth and in stories around the campfire, children will forget that we were once a proud nation of manufacturing, and innovation and of hope and glory and isn't the queen marvellous I was at Violets funeral y'know...
Gnnnn...
Is there a Fred Dibnah Zarse visible in your party. (obviously it's visible when he's half way up the stack. Or down, for that matter). Don't get me wrong, it's very commendable, and I'm genuinely impressed, unless these things like this are passed down by word of mouth and in stories around the campfire, children will forget that we were once a proud nation of manufacturing, and innovation and of hope and glory and isn't the queen marvellous I was at Violets funeral y'know...
Gnnnn...
H man,
Surely everyone knows this sort of thing.
The JU250 (which many people wrongly call the 250JU) was a crap Austin/Morris forward control panelvan from the late 50's/early 60's. It was replaced by the J4 in the mid sixties, another crap forward control panelvan. This was replaced by the Leyland Sherpa, a crap panelvan. It is still around today in modified guise and is now known as the LDV, and still a crap panelvan. As any reader of Classic Van and Light Commercial could tell you.
Will we never learn?
