Didnt last long....

You have a point, even a marked bay for an artic wouldn't be that long.

It's real in someones mind and the image is real in those that have looked at the picture...

Neither are these

Alex

Alex

I'm getting the awfully strange feeling that someone's got a bit of a fetish for these things. Or do I mean a strangely awful feeling?

Hmm, hydraulic steering, that's not road legal in this country for anything that moves at more than a slow speed, hope it didn't end up like that in real life. Is that the escaro or whatever it's called? Looks like it.

Tom Woods uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Yeah ... If I recall correctly we were going to Greece this summer in the Ambi complete with Air-con.

How time flys!

Lee D

Three months out of the country since March have put paid to everything hobby and holiday wise at the moment. And then there's the weather - so I was planning on a garage, so when do I build that.

And I'm off again on Tuesday.

Do you get the impression I'm pissed off ?

Steve

Steve Taylor uttered summat worrerz funny about:

Sounds like you could do with a bit more stress in your life Steve... I wonder if Daves ready to sell the p38 yet?

;-)

Not to worry - you will appreciate it when it comes around. I like the garage plan mind!

Its going to go across the back of the car park at work. Can you visualise where I mean - about 40 foot wide and 20 feet deep, with a roller shutter front. Going to fabricate it out of RHS steel and that steel cladding stuff. One wall is the works itself.

If I leave it long enough, I'll get the sheet cladding off the mill they should be demolishing in the near future near here.

Steve

On or around Sun, 9 Dec 2007 19:27:55 +0000, Ian Rawlings enlightened us thusly:

yep. 2 90s and a lot of welding :-) Could make a longer one out of 2 110s, I suppose.

It shouldn't be hard to make the steering mechanical.

anyway, what about citroens? they had fully powered steering. it does still work (after a fashion) without power, mind.

On or around Sun, 09 Dec 2007 20:05:44 +0000, Steve Taylor enlightened us thusly:

I've got one of those half built...

It needs a mechanical link IIRC, hydraulic assistance only is legal, but I'm only going on what I've picked up in passing, no real direct knowledge.

It's actually a MWG. The Escaro and SS300 were the same general layout, but had custom built bodies. The MWG had a crewcab based around defender body panels built onto an integral rollcage frame. Looked not unlike a 101 from the front. Powered by a Perkins Phaser

110T 4-litre 4cylinder diesel, on-road speed was claimed to be 70mph, but with a MGVW of 5.5tonnes this seems unlikely.

The steering is not hydraulic, the front axle is steered by a conventional PAS box, the front hydraulic cylinder on the steering is coupled directly to the rear cylinder to provide steering movement at the rear.

The concept was short-lived, the plan was to offer 6x6 and 8x8 versions to the military, and commercial buyers also. Only a few examples were built, and those were not a particular success, the twin-steer setup was reported to be quite unstable at higher speeds.

Alex

Nah, I was bored and playing with Photoshop.

Incidentally, the concertina bit in the middle is lifted from a Neoplan Bendybus.

Alex

I've started partially cladding my carport with featherboard style panels

- so its going to become a semi-garage!

On or around Mon, 10 Dec 2007 00:25:56 +0000, Alex enlightened us thusly:

I wonder how much of that was actual instability and how much people not being used to it?

Although it's more geared to off-road, admittedly, then 70 mph.

then again, the rear steering isn't mechanically linked, and I doubt that improves it.

Ah OK, I thought I recognised it from here;

Those bloody bendybus things are lethal, daftest idea this side of morris dancing.

What was the orginal planning permission? Careful that some busy body doesn't tell the council that you now have a "garage" rather than a "car port"...

You dont need planning permission for either when it is over 5m from the house and behind it and stuff. Its very carefully a tad over 5m from the house ;) Will probably only do 2 walls - enough to keep the bulk of the wind and rain out.