Classic cars & lorries | Drive It Day & The Cheshire Run April 2022
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- čas přidán 29. 04. 2022
- Drive It Day is a nationwide scheme designed to encourage owners of classic cars, vans, motorcycles & other transport to take them out and raise the profile of vehicle preservation here in the UK, a sector that is worth £billions to the economy. Road runs, shows and breakfast meets take place across the country. On the same day, the 2022 outing for The Cheshire Run also took place, where classic lorries take to the roads of Cheshire and North Shropshire, with a mid-route halt at the Midway Truckstop near Whitchurch.
As the weather was so good, we were expecting a great turnout for both events, Drive It Day and The Cheshire Run. We weren't to be disappointed. The Anglia was pressed into service and we headed over to our friends' garage close to the Midway Truckstop, where we parked up and unpacked our cameras ready for the day's vehicle sightings.
Many many fantastic old lorries were seen, and mixed in with them in the parking areas, and on the roads nearby were all manner of interesting old cars taking part in Drive It Day 2022 really adding to our morning. As outings go, they don't get much better.
Once the lorries had left we ambled home, then later headed out (again in the Anglia, now that the starter motor is behaving again) for a family meet-up, so we did our "bit" for the Drive It Day initiative.
Let me know in the comments if you undertook any special outings to support Drive It Day in some way, or indeed if you took part in the classic lorry run and see your vehicle in this vid.
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I'll incude a link to last year's lorry run at the end of this one.
Thanks, RJ
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The trouble with being 80 is that I remember most of these vehicles on the road. Thanks for the memories, keep tinkering.
great video
Absolutely Awesome Content, Filming and Soundtrack. As for favourites.
1, The ERF EC Olympic on the Jake Brake.
2, The ERF E 14 facelift.
3, The Ford Cargoes, all of them. I drove so many hard miles in them with the Ford 6.0 litre, 6.2 litre and 6.0 litre turbo and they were just so strong and always got you home. Definitely a Classic now.
4, Mickey Mouse Foden. My Uncle Jim, God Rest Him, drove one in 1988, a 6 wheel tipper alongside an early 1980s Foden and did as much work as the modern one did every day.
5, Foden S80 with those magical headlight's. Our local Mother's Pride ran one an Artic. The Sunblest Bakery bought an ERF with a Gardner 240 Straight 8 around 1979 1989. An amazing thing.
Not forgetting the Foden's cousin of course. That Peterbilt looked stunning and sounded like a big Cummins 14 litre.
Really pleased you liked it (if you know of anyone else who might, please forward the link to this vid)
Hi I used to drive a Foden S 20 for Grimley & son of Coventry back in the day. The s20 had a 12 speed range gearbox.
Great Video again very enjoyable over breakfast, our local classic car meet seems to ave turned into cheque book resto's though which are not to my taste, but each to their own.
Cheque book? Showing your age there Mel......
@@jonathangriffin1120 lol,
Fantastic!
Best selection of trucks and lorries in action
I’ve see for a long time
Even a DAF 3300!
I worked for a Leyland Daf dealership in the early 1980’s
I saw all the old vehicles going back years and years as we still had parts available for everything under British Leyland even
Austin, Morris post war vehicles that were partly wooden in construction
Roadrunners, Sherpa vans and even Routemaster buses on occasion
Then there were the current ( for then) vehicles
These Leyland DAF vehicles are part of history themselves now
2600,3300 and the mighty 3600
Usually an ‘eight legger’
My favourite was as a mighty 3600 rescue truck
What an absolute amazing collection of vehicles 😁. It looked an awesome day out. Well done. That J series Bedford would do me nicely.
My wife and I drove to Alderford Lake on that day and noticed all those beautiful lorries....and the Anglia!
I'll have to find out the date of the next run in advance. Lovely footage.
Soooo good...spring has definitely sprung with a lovely day for the event..
Very pleased for you...brilliant upload...
Loved it 👍
It was the perfect morning I admit 8-)
This video's the bollocks it's got everything. Favourite trucks still the F6s then the Clydesdale and the Escort meet was a great catch 👍👍👍
Ha yes real lucky with all those Fords, there were loads of later fast Fords too but I didn't focus (...) on those :)
Nice event to attend, Drive it day for me was taking the Triumph Stag to the Battlesbridge show in Essex. Cheers Bob
So nice to see all of those lorries. I love that huge tanker though I have nowhere to hide it! I think you are right about the drivers of the day. They would have just seen them as tools of the trade but yes they would have been a handful to drive. When i was younger we lived near a hill though you could not see it from our house you could definitely hear the lorries 'screaming' up the hill, even the odd missed gear change, though that didn't happen too often. Thanks for sharing this video Rick. 👍👍👍
Great stuff
I love these kind of events, always something different .
Thanks for uploading
Excellent! As a child l loved the bench seat in the from of dads Zephyr! Some great trucks on show.
Thanks, great lorry video. Strange that in South Africa we call them trucks, and in the USA a truck is something else to private users. I remember Leyland, Bedford, Albion and Ford trucks of the late 50's and 60's. Many of these festured in your video(s)! We had a forward control Thames Trader tipper in the family in the late 60's. The one with the small narrow bonnet with it's own grille. I have seen only one or two in your recent videos. They seem to be scarce. Ours had a petrol 6 cylinder and was very heavy on fuel. We also had a long nosed 3 to 4 ton Thames which had the a 4 cyl. diesel engine which is the same as that of the Fordson tractor of the era. I remember taking a load of sheep to auction in it. Flat out on a level tar road in our Karoo semi desert area near Queenstown it would work up to a touch over 50 mph. Also did many trips driving my uncle's Ford D0807. This went well with a diesel slant 4 cyl, think it was a 4.3 or 4 6 litre. Had decent torque to move a 4 ton load in the hilly area on our coast at East London. Hope to see some examples of these lorries in your future videos. Thanks for the memories!
Many thanks for another great video. What a fantastic gathering of beautiful machines. I think the Albions and that lovely little Bedford J Type top my list.
The ERF Lightnin at 16:50 is gorgeous. ERF at 20:05 yes please! carwise Avenger VS Viva I can't decide. Both cracking examples. Thanks for another great video!
Thanks Jimmy :)
Great video, great lorries, especially the earlier ones,loved that mk2 Zodiac and that phase1 Standard Vanguard near the beginning looked stunning aswell!
Your Anglia looks a lot nicer due to the work that you have put in. A very commendable effort on your part. Well done Sir.
I'm more into cars than commercials but this video certainly made me smile at these lovely old Commercials. They were all lovely, but I think the Shell/BP Scammel has to be my favourite. Nice seeing the ERF's too as I went for a tour around the Sandbach factory during the late 60's. My favourite cars were the Zodiac, Avenger GL and Viva DL together. I worked in a Vauxhall and Chrysler dealers up to 1976 so I can't tell you if there was an anniversary version of the Avenger, I certainly don't remember hearing about one. I must say that the Anglia has a nice clean look in it's linseed finish. Thanks for sharing.
The Green Zodiac was one of the nicest I've seen.
You are correct about those old lorries not being easy to drive.No power steering,cabs hot and noisy and double clutching.It wasn’t till the late sixties when my father got a brand new ergo cabbed AEC when lorries became a little more bearable.
I remember my uncle buying a mk4 cortina from that garage in the 80s , it was called Bernie’s garage ,
Great these vehicles can stay around this long, traditional british workmanship 🙂 I liked the Combs Valley coz its colour 🤭 and that Viva and Avenger wow they're in good nick 🙂
ERF's and Foden I remember seeing thos as a kid, one I don't see and they was built in my area are the Guy Motors, ever seen any?
Good video again 👍
Thanks, yes sometimes get to see Guy lorries, I'm sure one or more have appeared in previous vids on the channel
Thanks for another great video . The thumbnail shows a mk2 Zodiac. So I thought it was mainly cars. So it was a bit of a surprise that there were so many lorries, ( that I'm not an avid spotter of). but I'm glad you did as they bought back a lot of memories of my childhood in the 60s and later the 70s. I started with my dad learning bricklaying and the London Brick Company lorries that used to deliver the " Fletton " bricks were a common sight. I can't remember what make they were but there was one of them (a tanker I think) in the video.
As a kid, I nearly got run over by most of them lorrys. I was a bit of a road hazard whilst crossing the road. I did also drive a Ford D.1000 and a Bedford t k for 7 years around a timber yard. There were also a Cortina estate m5 ,a Hillman Avenger I had for a few years which I had had painted, black bottom red top and black roof. Also drove a number of Land Rover's for 20 years. So yes...another good video. 👍
The Anglia 123E was called a super with a 1200cc engine!
Pity we didn't get to hear the TS3 fire up, love the 'R' series 'Rubber Duck' Mack also the blue Anglebox, would've been nice to know what was lurking under the bonnet!
The Anglia is looking good after it's initial paintwork treatment.
Hello, thanks for all these fabulous videos. Is there a website where I can find details of up-coming events like this? I'm sick of seeing about them after they have happened!
I miss loads too, I just keep an eye on Facebook for talk of local car shows and also occasionally buy one of the weekly classic car papers which also list events. A search online can also bring up news of upcoming meets.
👍 Cracking Video and just in time for ????? Is there one central point where all of these events and shows are listed or is it down to individual searches. I am asking simply because some of these events are worth visiting.
lassic Car Weekly carries a lot of news events
@@melb6528 Thanks Mel
Yes I find it's easy to miss a good event.
Hi Vince, it can be a bit hit and miss, I miss plenty, I just need to remember events I've done in previous years and search them up, and also keep an eye on Facebook which can be quite handy for event notifications
@@oldclassiccarUK Thanks for taking the time to reply I have only recently within the last 6 months joined Facebook and a couple of interest groups so I will do a thorough search Thanks again.
do you know anybody with a Rootes diesel ts3 that's in pieces for rebuild? I'd like to see the inside of one of those.
Not offhand sorry
Poor Harley has to run down the road to get the money shot! 🏃♂️
just a little moan if i can please spend as much time on the 80s trucks as the 50s and 60 s there was tree there that are as rare as chickens teeth and thay have had as much love and care and possably money spent as the older ones ,, ps great footage
Thanks for watching, I'll try and spend more time on the 80s but typically I tend to cover slightly earlier trucks generally. Thanks for your feedback
Stop waving your hand in front of the lens!!!
My apologies