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Arjan Hij & Wilkomen!

Glad to see you have found your way here at last.

There are quite a few mad cloggies here already, you will be most at home here.

Groetjes!

is there a bigger nut than me? owning a 101fc convert it in a camper ( it was stripped when bought) and this summer going to rebuild the back as an original ambulance, replace the brackets and... fitting the overdrive. if i manage to get it road legal with a 6.2 gmc , can i drive the same tires you have got? already bought half of the stuff needed ;) collecting it at driffield. and, if possible, i want to write about the concersion, and make some pictures for the six stud. and if some one stil have not seen me, i have some pictures of me, and the police called me a nut... and officialy got a document to proof it :-)

But you really must learn how to keep it on its feet - especially on flat ground!

There must be easier ways of looking @ the underside!

one side of the road was salted, so i could drive carefull, a man in front of me hit the brakes, i reacted and moved one lane, it was one sheet of ice, got in a spin, the shoulder was soft, one wheel dug in deep en there i went. no seatbelts, battery box lid was loose, nearly got hit by it, had hub's in the back, with the drumbrakes on them, they went trough the soft top and i was unharmed ( i know i was lucky) the police came, asked me questions like "how fast where you driving" i told him i was looking at the road, not on the speedo. i did not dare telling him the cable broke down on me. the asked what they could do for me, i asked them, you have got a camera? would you mind to take some pictures for me? so he did, and he e-maild them to me. i drove on mud's maybe that is bad and i should have other tire's fitted for legal purposes.... that is why i crashed on the shoulder, not to crash in the back of some one else. the man who hit the brakes, i did not know who he was, he drove away, not looking if i was alright. i got my poor 88LW back on the wheels, and the towtruck man wanted to get me home, and smiled when i told him i was going to drive home on my own. damage: mirror, mirror arm, wing got dented, arches broke, and the body part behind the door is folded around the outrigger.and the softtop is wasted.

maybe the engine got some damage aswel, it was fitted with a 2.5Normal / Asfyxiated, and at the day we left for billings, a bearing of the drife shaft failed.

now i am going to make something nice of the little radio wagon. going to fit 900x16 tires, fit a restored (did it myself) 2.5 td, freewheeling hubs, custom build a exaust (even the part on the turbo shell...it's a lhd so the steering arm is in the way) fit intercooler and put the oil cooler back in. also making it a hardtop. and i plan to come to driffield with it, so engine and the coolers have priotity ( and building a smal trailer ( sankey's are illegal in holland) is there going to be more of this group that are comming over to the show? and i am giong to take some extra cases of grolsch for "my own use"(last event at p'boro i had 20 cases of beer, claimed to be a alcoholic, and it was just for the weekend....) wil trade for good parts.(serie's parts) see ya, Arjan (hwo is looking for a nice british or irish girl to help him with his gaelic study)

On 6 Jan 2006 08:55:18 -0800, "LR88lw snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com" scribbled the following nonsense:

well, while its like that its easy to see if the chassis needs any welding ;-)

Nah, any fool can roll it over on a bank. It takes real skill on the level.

So you bought it stripped, did the camper conversion yourself and now you are ripping it all out again and putting it back as an ambi? why? wouldnt it be easier to start with an original non-converted ambulance as i'd have thought it would be quite hard to get it fully original? - and if it is not original then what is the point of having it as an ambulance (unless you just need or want an ambulance!)

Not that i'm trying to put you off! i'm just curious! I've done plenty of questionable things to vehicles myself! :)

I've got some ex-ambulance bits going spare if you want them - but its a bit of way to travel here to get them!

I think Martyn had his fancy wheels on back when he still had a 3.5 and i'm sure he told me once that he could get it up to 90, so it should shift alright with a 6.2!!

go for it!

He's Dutch. The English need something of a paradigm shift in order to understand the Dutch ;-)

They come over a couple of times a year, Driffield and Peterborough are the best times to catch them. They are totally bonkers and well worth spending time with.

Arjan has the wheels that I had made for Grumble and Andys truck. Andy sold the truck to Kay, Kay sold the wheels to Arjan. A 6.2 GM diesel will produce the same top speed as the 3.5 actually, but running the risk of ripping the transmission to bits (one reason why Dave Owen, who also has the GM V8 6.2 won't let anyone else drive it).

Speed is not the issue, the pure grunt and pulling power is there when you need it to yank a jeep out of the sticky but you'll not leave the hot hatches at the traffic lights.

I made 89.4mph on the GPS - prolly could have gone further but I may very well have shat myself...