Humber FV1600 - ARN 105-819 - Restoration moves forward.

[Dave Mills]

Over the weekend we drove to a small town called Euroa which is about 60k's North of home to participate in the National Show and Shine a massive event with over a 1000 vehicles and 400 motorcycles on show. Anyway, parked up the Humber in the main street and sat out the day enjoying the event and explaining our rare and beautiful vehicle to the crowds. No intention of entering any categories just a chance to be able to display our newest vehicle to the public.

Our Humber won the "Best 4 x 4 in Show" and the "Best Special Vehicle in Show"

Very happy and proud Humber owners, it was good to be judged by others as the best of the best on the day and having your restoration skills on display.

Pic 1- Shows the wife and myself after accepting the awards.
Pic 2- Shows the Humber proudly wearing her awards.

Old vehicle restoration is a passion that we all have - Keep up the great work to preserve our military history.

Cheers,

Dave & Kathy.

[pauldavies]

Dave what a great change in fortune you have had, it is such a buzz when you get some one else judge your vehicle and they like it as much as you. Better get a tin of Brasso and a clean rag they might not be the only prizes you get, great result and well done.
Paul

[Dave Mills]

Final have had a new set of skid strips manufactured. Still have work to do on them bolts, painting and finishing touches. Last piece of the puzzle.

Dave.

[Robert Sexton]

Dave, those strips look the real deal and you have done well to be able to have them manufactured to such a good standard.
It must be a Humber thing as when I first started up mine it had the same horrendous vibration from the uni-joints being out of phase. Fortunately(or unfortunately) I had had previous experience with out of phase uni joints in agriculture machinery and it was the first thing I went looking for.Once experienced you never forget the sound and the vibration.
Robert

[Dave Mills]

The noise did allow me to check the pinion, transfer case which both had wear in them but the major "Elephant in the room" was the transmission all looked great until it all went wrong. Now that is another story. If I had not found these potential faults "Murphies Law" would come into play and it would have stood me up a couple of hundred k's from home.

Yes, the sound is terrible and one you would not forget. We have done over 1500K's in her now without a glitch apart from the oil leaks.

250 K's out of a tank on the dot, have an electric back up fuel pump fitted as I thought to transfer the fuel line from the empty tank to the full tank would take some priming. Not needed at all the pump pulls fuel like there is no tomorrow. I now have it in case of vaporisation.