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If you want it to sound more throaty without cat/dpf deleting it extend the exhaust pipe so it reaches the back of the vehicle because the longer the pipe the throatier it sounds but it won’t make it much louder

I like very much to listen to older HGV drivers. I'm myself a driver, but the conditions are not comparable. Therefore I got a 6x6 tipper lorry from the early sixties to have at least a hint of what driving was back then.

Liked your video! Thank you.

How did you wire up the 2 horns separately lad? I thought I was the only big kid around 😂

Brilliant stories!!.good old days..😂

I remember as a kid ,my dad telling me of the hardships of Shap . You had to be a real man to drive lorries in that era.

I lived in Bowness in the 70s I went to Kendal college. Some of the students in our class where from Shap. At the slightest hint of bad weather they would be sent home because the road always became blocked

A brilliant wee trio of films.

They were Men sheets and Rope, No Power steering, cold cabs I know because I went with my Dad in the Lorrys in 70s,

We was here today but did not enter looked way to muddy

An old driver who I worked with many years ago would tell me as well as braking issues over shap would be pulling 10 ton with a 120 horsepower engine and needing to change down the box. The fear was cos no synchro boxes back then if you missed the gear you were going for that would be it game over you were at a stop and wouldn’t have enough power to get yourself moving on the incline. The good old days eh 🤔😊

Great to watch, however, most of us would prefer it WITHOUT the music its terrible

down shap withe a gardener engine, nock her out of gear (aberdeen booster)or (silent seventh) for more speed as you could not over run a gardener engine, she would drop a valve.a the good old days.

Thank you for uploading this, my late grandad used to work as a mechanic for scottish & newcastle breweries in kendal, he used to have to go to breakdowns up on shap in all weathers.

I'm sure the old Gadners thrived on that route with their cool running engines and endless ability to plod on

Sounds shit mush 😅

What years were this lorry type made?

1:15 - Now THAT's a Proper Lorry.

In America (Pennsylvania) we once upon a time had a governor by that name.

Somebody jocularly said that Shap was where Birmingham ended and Glasgow began!

In those days, lorries could be overloaded, and had insufficient braking power when descending the hill. However, the Penrith to Carlisle section was far more dangerous, as it had extra traffic to and from the A66.

Thanks!

A man of taste. I had one of those Fiestas, a sliver Zetec 1.4. Phone button just muted the stereo. What a swiz.

Did you ever figure it out ? My DB 950 is doing the exact same thing

It's lovely, fascinating and quaint, especially to me in the USA. I grew up in Pittsburgh, sometimes riding on the Pennsylvania Turnpike which has a tunnel at over 2000 feet built in 1939. And I've gone several times across the Rockies where passes are over 10,000 feet and kept open year round. Of course everywhere has different standards, and you invest only enough to keep things tolerable, I guess. But it's amazing to me that more wasn't invested in infrastructure to keep it open in the past. I'm not surprised that the Americans had a plan to modernize it in WWII. In Pittsburgh we also had things like runaway truck ramps so that trucks which lost their brakes could run up and stop safely. And there's the famous song about 40 thousand pounds of bananas coming into Scranton Pennsylvania, which happens to be Biden's hometown. So presumably he knows about runaway trucks, at least.

Nice head of hair!

The dangers of Shap were the overloading of lorries and their braking systems were less efficient than they are today. What is often overlooked is that the Penrith to Carlisle stretch is a much more dangerous road with all its blind summits and changing widths, and there would be extra traffic off the A66.

What is not often realised is that the Penrith - Carlisle section of the A6 is a killer stretch of road.

I put a cherry bomb exhaust on mine and was exactly the same, no change.

Great video!

I love an old organ.

You need a good battery with the proper cold cranking amps.

I suppose coming from Shap, my ancestors wouldn't feel so overwhelmed by the Canadian winters.

I live in Canada and have a letter dated 1801 from a several times great uncle to my several times great grandfather Cook saying that their father had taken a new wife and they were living in Shap.

Thank you for showing these wonderful clips. I've enjoyed each and every one!

I'm now coming 73 and started 1965 as drivers mate all hand ball a forklift truck was a novelty, my driver Norman used to whack me about the head with newspaper, if the rope hitches were not at the same height, I loved him, and Norman is no longer with us, but I'll never forget him on our travels all over the UK, The jungle we always stopped and sometimes we were snowed in. I'll always my travels as a boy with Norman. Then at the age of 21 allocated my own truck the education I gained from still with me today I'm next birthday 73 and I'm still at it, only on three shifts a week, but Norman and the old boys now and then fill me with pride and the passage of time they were real men and all forgotten, but not our Norman, when I'm driving the lorry I look up to summer sky and speak with him and tell him I'm still going and your with me 👍

Voltage is one thing. It's the Amps that do the real work.

how did a snow plough driver get too work

went over shap many times one hell of a road before m6 i think there was a cafe called the jungle

At night you could see the glow from some of the exhausts! Gardners, Cummings AECs etc.

Missed a "cog" an that was it! You had to start all over again! Something you really didn't want to do!

Back in the 60's stayed in Shap on many a Sat. or Sunday night with Benny & Georgia Bentley in the Crown Inn great digs if the weather was bad tried to make Kendal just incase there was snow through the night :) happy days

Is decat out and dpf be make video soon

I remember the jungle cafe, a good hot meal and a slot machine jackpot that paid out 15 pounds in old dispenses. Many a lorry overheated at the top of Shap and had to stop to cool down. The cafe at the top had good tea and cake. They were the good old days when drivers stopped to help each other.

Brought back many memories in the sixties when I was young. Shap in the winter in a cold cab, depended on the cafes to keep warm. My dad nearly got killed at strawberry bank when the lorry hit black ice

Why did you cut off the credits? When was this made?

That was excellent, happened on it purely by chance. Thoroughly enjoyed that.

You don’t see many Chinese six. Wheelers now

Fantastic films. Thank you... 😀

What a great collection of stories.