Transport -BIG Mistake

Used to use one of those to go bike racing in Germany. Not the best van in the world but if the old man used to go over there in Lancaster's then who am I to moan about an LTD and fitted WITH a heater.

-- Regards,

John Stevenson Nottingham, England.

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Ah but did you try getting out of FIRST gear?? :-))

Peter

-- Peter A Forbes Prepair Ltd, Luton, UK snipped-for-privacy@easynet.co.uk

Aren't they all automatic then? :-)

Mark Rand RTFM

Sounds like even 20 would be a stretch...

Regards, Tony

No wonder he thought it was noisy ;-)

Regards, Tony

I once hired a Transit to fetch something from Scotland (Crinan), the back axle was well on its way out, the experience was very similar to what you've just described. That was one *very* long drive!

Cheers Tim

I used to audit a small family firm who made transformers. They had a little Toyota van of some description for collecting and delivering things. I think it was a Hi-Ace or something similar. One weekend I needed to pick up a couple of engines and asked if I could borrow it. No problem said the boss and I drove it up to Scotland that weekend. Took me a while to get used to the column mounted gear lever but otherwise it drove just like a car. When I dropped it back he asked how it had gone and I said it was a fine little tub. Cruised very nicely on the motorway once you got it into fifth. "Fifth ??" he expostulated. "It's only got a four speed box!!"

I had to take him out and show him the gearlever. They'd been driving it for years and never got it out of fourth because no one had looked at the stick properly. He'd always thought the engine screamed along a bit at high speed but not given it much thought.