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These stories are fantastic !, just found them and I can’t get enough !. Keep em coming, fella.

Bedford trucks are brilliant. We had TK cattle trucks. They are very reliable. The Tl is als a good bit of kit. I always wanted the big TM but never got round to getting one. Something i still regret! Interesting video thanks.

8.5 down to 7 stone dam that's light for a manual working chap

nearly missed this one,first ransid we got after the d series was a mk 3 with a body on but not fastened down,we didn't know this at time of purchase of course because everything looked fine,well to cut a long story short it did us proud with just like yours a di,we did have to fit a new headgasket in once and i straightened the rockers on a girder and it carried on another 2 years till it started breaking its back behind the cab,we parked it up and sold it to a bloke called spitting sid who said he was going to make it strong and use it ,next thing we heard was he had gone straight down to sheffield tax office taxed it as a recovery for £75 for the year so mot exempt and went off to pick a granada up,we heard it broke it back on its maiden voyage in his keep. Oh well coastguards problem then wasn't it not ours,sold as seen you seen it we sold it

thanks for the story, this is a story from my father, back in the early 2000s; he had a 1964 land rover series 2a short wheel base which he was modifying for off-roading. he was filling it up with diesel at tesco, there was a teenage in front of him putting petrol in a new bmw m5. the teenage did that & got back in, accidently putting it in reverse so the back of it slammed in to the front of the landy making the bmw a write off, the boy gets out & started yelling at my dad when the shop clerk came out & said "it's on the cameras". so the boy was in trouble because the bmw was his dad's car. so my dad called up the insurance company they asked him "what needs to be replaced ?" my dad said "he just knocked off more paint then i do in a month".

a barman?? sounds a recipe for disaster🤣🤣

worst my cappers ever did was I would kick the cills of a car I had just welded up to show the customer how strong the car was again😂

Yep been there 😂😂

thanks for the story, i love your channel because it's like my dad's stories from the years he's been a live

You never disappoint allwaws wanted a late mk2 with Di first transit was mk4 all ways been a sherpa man had 90 odd out of 200 series perkins with pump wound out 😂❤🤠🛠️⚓️JB

Beautiful job, thanks for sharing 👍

I am heartened to have stumbled across your channel. I and numerous friends had very similar experiences and adventures with almost identical equipment 20 - 30 years ago. Unfortunately we didn’t have the foresight to capture the images for the future, so a big thank you for awakening memories and bringing a smile.

The A series, like a Transit on steroids. My dad knew someone with a recovery. Must of cost a bit to run, had the V6 petrol engine.

My a series woud only start if the bonnet was up against the house with 24 volt shoved up the starter and copious amount of start ya bastard (easy start ) to the rest of us 😂😂😂😂❤🤠JB

I think you pretty much nail what it was like when you describe the big mad rush to turn barns into homes,i personally have yet to see one i would want to live in ,people don't have stories to tell now unless you are in a pub and lucky enough to get a conversation going,

That must have been an expensive van in its day when was it made 80s ish?

Fascinating, some of them old farms. We had a few country lads come in with tales like this one, and tons of rusty old iron.

I wonder if the Blue A series at the video start is (was) the same one at Transitmania a couple of years ago???

You never fail to make me 😂 ole mate igot clobberd by same traffick warden twice in one month wrong tax disc 😱😱🤠🛠️⚓️JB

Been laughing along with your video's, taking me back to when i was 16 in1 982 and on the road with a knackered fs1e, i had to bump start as the kick start splines were shot. Are you still in the scrap business ?

Great story telling and added pics. Who didnt piss off on the first motorized thing they could get their hands on. I was 14 in '66, mum had a Honda 90 Stepthru. When she was at work I would dress up like a granny with a big scarf to hide my hairless chin and ride the thing for hours as far as I could get on .20c worth of petrol. Buying fuel in a country town was weird as they had never seen a Honda yet.When I was discovered, dad hid the key, so I learned how to hotwire it. Then when that came unstuck dad locked the shed so I had to figure out how to unbolt the whole lock off the shed door for even more riding. Finally got stopped when I punched a hole in the crankcase riding it thru a paddock. Dad had an old leather razor strop and I was persuaded after said application but I still have that urge to ride as I had back then as a young teeenager. Had bikes since I was 16.Cheers

You should have got a van,much more discreet and brilliant for getting mates into the usual banger racing and stock car meets cheaper as they laid down in the backn under my blankets😂

Another great story. Keep 'em coming.

6:39 We once got the job of removing a fiat estate from an attached house garage in the early 90's,on opening the garage doors the fiat looked mint in its factory brown,we managed to get air in all its tyres with one of those plunger pumps that came with a new lada,anyway we pulled it out and thought jobs a good un a new ticket and we can sell this once we get it running,only problem was our winch was a big old manual one mounted on our petrol A series and our ramps were a ladder type which made winching hard I got under the car and put the howser round the crossmember and attached the winch wire and started winching,the howser cut through the crossmember like a piece of wire through cheese so that was quickly abandoned We did get the car on,i can't remember how but for a 7 year old dcar its was the rottenest thing i had ever seen underneath Looked round it for things to remove to sell and the best thing on it was a brand new 175x14 remould in the boot so we kept that and took the car straight to the bridge I knew at the time a 175x14 tyre especially a kingpin remouĺd was basically useless in the 1990's as only an austin 1800? Used them and so was the case because 2 years later it was still sat in the corner of the unit brand new looking, but neglected

Brilliant ,unique

Love it

You remind me of my dad and the good times gone by when I was a boy so thank you for your great stories it brings back the good times for me.

I had an '81 BMW 735i Mk1 facelift, bought it from a Turk (I know, lol) so it had probably been down to Istanbul a good few times. Lowered suspension and fat alloys, but still drove like a dream. I remember driving on the autobahn in a snow blizzard, in the rush hour, steady 100 clicks nose to tail... never felt so safe in my life, lol. Amazing experience. That red Passat (mk3?), I love them. I think they will be a future classic, especially in a nice metallic... a bit like the NSU Ro80. Gorgeous designs.

I bought a Marina van from some Gypsies (don't ask me why) and the windscreen shattered on the way home, lol. I reckon it must have been bent out of shape in a crash. So I drove it to work the next day, with no screen, I took a screen from a scrapper that came in, and fitted it after work. The soft lad who volunteered to help me (unasked), then reversed the van into a reinforced concrete wall in the car park, while I was up in the changing room taking a shower. Upon inspection of the damage, it seems he had dislodged a half hundredweight of filler from the nearside rear corner. The following week, after doing a masterful job of backfilling and painting, I noticed that the gear lever was all over the place and was a bit tricky in selecting the right gear, so rather than mess around, I just whipped a complete engine and gearbox out of another scrapper at work and swapped them over. After that I had a few good months out of it, albeit involving several run-ins with the law; (what is it with driving around in beaten up old vans late at night that attracts the plod?) the last of which resulted in me having to hand my licence back in for a bit. Apart from that, it was a lucky old van!

I'm laughing as you recall your escapades. It reminds me of my own antics back in the 80s. You can't get away with anything like this now, keep the videos coming.

Brilliant reminds me of my own cunning plans I used to get upto in the early 2000s. Can’t get away with half the stuff anymore. I remember needing to take a lorry into London that I’d sold and been paid to deliver no MOT so I went down to garret gree Dvla office and registered it as a recovery vehicle to tax it and run it into the back of portabello road. Can’t get away with that these days.

Lovely old job mind me tash 🤠🔧⚓ JB

Where you from in the UK?

first bike was DT 50 MX TSG691Y Black . and yes tried every thing , bigger sprocket , fresco pipe , 60cc kit etc ....... it did 50mph confirmed ( just ) great times .

Short but sweet my frend had a lad years ago that ran his moblet moped on tvo tank ont the back with change over valve clock read 40 flat out i reckon it did 50 new piston every two weeks 🤠🔧⚓ JB

I had one with a box, I thought they were the bees but they were not, I bought a new Tranny in 74 with a Luton and found a trailer same size as the van body, earned a lot of money with it and sold it close to what I paid.

Great video my friend haven't seen an A series in years ❤

i also had an A series beaver in the 80s, rotten 1975 model, it was never without a fault it permanently had 5 cylinders [no4 inlet valve burnt, popping away all day], constantly died due to air in fuel, worst example, came home from london to newcastle at 23mph, and the best one, the front wheel-bearing collapsed and the front wheel/drum rolled down the road, flattening a chelsea pensioner on armistace day... and a tirfor hand winch to boot...

What's your issue with Mark Fowler, then eh? Poor bastard died of HIV... 'ave some respect! No, the Ford A Series was a dog, I remember a few lads had them. The tranny was a winner, though.... strange that. D series was good as well, but it was always outshone by the TK. Good format, great content... you had me creased up!

At least the plod turnout the days all you get now is a crime number 🤠⚓🔧 JB

I love your videos, especially how much time you spend putting the photos to match the commentary. You should have loads more viewers. Touchwood it will happen.