[Humber-One-Ton Tom]

Well that worked, here is another picture. Needless to say it was worse than it looked - there was a 4 inch gap where the gutter and part of the roof had been down one side and along the back, the passener step fell off when we moved the vehicle, as did the spare wheel cover locking nut bracket. Also the back axle was broken, driving only on the front wheels, no exhaust at all, fuel pump membrane collapsed - it had been in a shed in Hay-on-Wye for 25 years without moving. Still, she fired up OK and we actually DROVE her home after a few hours work, including a quick re-paint and a roadside repair when the palm of my glove became the fuel pump diaphragm.

Don't ask. Just don't ask. Still, she made it - 275 miles in 10 hours. Ears ringing with the boom of the exhaust, screens open to avoid poisoning ourselves. Apalling handling on the front axle alone. The ONLY thing that worked well were the 24V headlights - stuck on main beam beacause at that stage I could not find the cunningly disguised dip switch - so the travellers we met going the other way had the blood vessels in the back of their eyes illuminated. We could barely hear their frindly hooting over the roar of an unsilenced B60. When we arrived in South London at 7am we were trailed for half a mile by a Police car as the exhaust echoed like thunder off the building fronts - but he obviously wanted his breakfast and decided he had not seen our convoy -we went down in a friend's 1944 Dodge WC52 - and he pulled into Streatham Police Station.

We used a LOT of petrol that day.

Needless to say I am now older and wiser, a responsible family man with 2 young boys - and would NOT do anythig so irresponsible now - but 02 BK 32 is now a very tidy machine - still more work to do for the new owner - there always is - but she is certainly a survivor, when, despite how good she looks in the pictures, she really was marginal when I got her, another couple of years in that leaking shed and she waould have been beyond any hope.

Regards,
Tom
Portsmouth
UK