Manky Monkey Motors

While I was zooming around the internet I found this rather good site www.russiantrucks.com (http://www.russiantrucks.com)
Aint Urals great

Here's a couple more, coz I just Know how much the previous ones impressed you ;D

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Woo hoo! We like big ol' trucks! So where's the Urals then?
My sister's emigrating to Canada in a few weeks. A liitle town called High River, an hour's drive from the Rockie Mountains -so free holidays for me! It drops to minus 35 in the Winter & most of the local roads get shut. I wanna move out there & be a lumberjack  :D
http://www.jrossrealestate.com/highriver/index.php

Dunno where piccies were taken, probobly somewhere in Russia, seeing as the guy whose site I got them from appears to go there.

Canada, isn't everyone "nice" there.

I'll let you know when I've been.  :)

If they let you in.  Manky Monkey could be seen as a threat to their way of life ;D

Find myself a nice Canadian lady type person, build a cabin in the mountains & live happily ever after. If they let me in I might not come back!

Quote from the Headmaster, High River School for Lumberjack Kids "Now remember children, dont go playing in the forest during the holidays, There's a mad Englishman there who will lead you on the road to ruin.  He will teach all the sins of trike building and the enjoyment of the open road"

 ;D ;D ;)

The mad old Monkey of the woods.
I think it's the law to have to drive a big ol' pickup truck & wear a red checked lumberjack hat & spit tobacee. They teach that in the schools too.

You ever tried chewing baccy...........It's bloody foul!!!!!!

I'd rather chew the big red hat.
Been listening to a Canadian folk/rock group recently -the Be Good Tanyas. An all girl group, but none of them are called Tanya, though they may well be good.  :P Sort of aclimatising myself to the Canadian life  ;D Seems to involve lots of sitting about on porches waiting for your man to come home & moaning about how miserable you are.

You have to watch out for the moose's up there, and the animal ones.

If you look on e bay, - motors   then Other vehicles, there are often Russian trucks for sale. £7000 for one with a fully kitted office cum sleeper on the back.
I can imagine turning up at a posh camp site with a huge 6x6 wagon with six foot high tyres on.
Only problem is that they only do six miles to the gallon on that v8 petrol engine.

I always fancied having a Unimog! ;D Thats the big mercedes 4wd trucks. The tree surgeons on the farm we used to have a workshop on had one, it used to rumble past the doors and all you could see were the wheels!

I had a call on my mobile while I was in the garage this evening -from California! My brother, Steve, ("Brock")'s out there on holiday at the moment. He's been at the drag races in Bakersfield -oldest drag track in the World I think. He was just about to jump in the car & drive down through San Diego to Los Angeles to see a man about a race built Chevy engine, (let's see him get that back as hand luggage!), then back to Hollywood for a few days before finishing up in Las Vegas.
Jealous? Me? of course! He's bought me a little "Moon" water temperature guage for my Reliant though. Beats a postcard anyday.  ;D
 

Unimogs are brilliant, had to drag a landrover out of a bog in Northumberland with one of them, no trouble, those things'll go anywhere.

I'd have one. Look at how much stuff you can get on them  ;D

Wonder what the traffic cops would say if you tried that here?!

But the fuel is more affordable over there I believe?

Not a lot going by their traffic lights  ??? ::)

They the ones in Letchworth? No wonder everybody gets lost when they go to your place.

I went to Letchworth this year to phot an RBR Landmark - I didn't get lost!

What's a Spirella?

They used to make corsets!

Company started by the bloke who created Letchworth Garden City.

The bit of it that I saw was very attractive, gardens and fountains!

Went to Wellyn Garden City many years ago. That was nice from what I remember of it. Can't even remember where it is now though!

One of the great things about doing the Round Britain Rally is that you begin to understand how the various bits of britain that you go to actually fit together!

My sense of direction's worse than my memory! :P

Cant be that bad, you remember your way here every day ;D  HEY, I just made Snr member, howd I do that?

You passed 250 posts.
Congratulations, the cakes are on you.
I have to leave a trail of Jaffa Cake crumbs to find my way back here each day.

Your lucky the crumbs remain, the way I hear it , there's enough cakeoholics round here to wipe out any trace. ;D

Sometimes I end up on different forums altogether -there's some very strange websites out there you know!  :P