T.I.R. 1969

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T.I.R. 1969

Post #1 by widget » Sat Nov 02, 2013 9:58 am

Found a bit of nostalgia.... :thumbup:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llQUrH8eEHM[/video]
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Re: T.I.R. 1969

Post #2 by Jeremy Rowland » Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:17 am

Hmm climbing through the Alps in an old ERF powered by a Patricroft plodder................... bet that was a lot of gear changing and down to a crawl. ;)
Very good anyway. :claphands:
I can recall one of the lads at Ryland's joking that when a Seddon Atkinson 400 series was fitted with a TIR badge it actually stood for 'Terrible International Rubbish' of course Seddon was then owned by International. :lol:

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Post #3 by canaldrifter » Sat Nov 02, 2013 10:43 am

I enjoyed that, thanks. Drove one of them on a low loader for Larry Webb.

Rig worth £10,000 eh? Two drivers? I did a bit of TIR to Italy in 1973. We were very much on our own then, over the Mont Cenis, but at least sleeper cabs had just about come in, although my first trip was in a Volvo F86 from Bedford to Bergamo!

Here's how they do it now:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PHCr7pKFrU[/video]

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Post #4 by widget » Sun Nov 03, 2013 5:18 pm

Nice bit of riding there Tone :thumbup:
Ive not ridden a bike for at least 25 years, when I was young and stupid. It was on a Kawasaki GPZ900R , I got 160mph-ish out of it :dizzy: and when I got off it I was grinning like a Cheshire cat and my legs were like jelly. I have never ridden a bike since that day for fear of killing myself or worse some body else.
I might manage 200yrds before i would fall off now :lol:

If your into bikes(or not) here's a film i would highly recommend, brilliant story of New Zealander Burt Munro who set the land-speed record at Bonneville in 1967 by a 1920 Indian motorcycle. :bow:

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bu9dGRQvJY[/video]
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Post #5 by Mrsmackpaul » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:02 pm

Thanks for posting that widget never new what TIR meant still suppose you cant hold that against me as I am an Aussie lol we dont drive over borders to other countries here sure have pretty country side over that side of the world.The worlds fastest Indian movie sought of gives me a funny feeling inside every time I watch it like if you want to do it you can no matter what and all Americans arent foghorns only the loud ones seeya
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Post #6 by widget » Sun Nov 03, 2013 9:20 pm

I suppose because we are part of the U.S.E. we don't have borders :lol:
I don't envy Tony tho, having to drive that road back then.....I'm not sure id want to do it now even in a modern truck!!

I know exactly what you mean about the film....its got that feel good factor.....can do attitude
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Post #7 by canaldrifter » Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:21 am

widget wrote:I don't envy Tony tho, having to drive that road back then.....I'm not sure id want to do it now even in a modern truck!!



It was first gear all the way up and all the way down.

And you left the engine running while you were in the cafe at the top, because it would boil over if you stopped it.

You went down on the exhauster brake all the way, if you had one. You did not dare to try to change gear. Anything going up gave way to anything going down (if you were lucky), because the chances were that anything going down wouldn't be able to stop.

Nearly all the hair-pin bends were one truck at a time. There was no room pass.

There will be some wreckage at the bottom of those drops to this day.

And all of that because our boss wouldn't pay the tunnel charges.

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Post #8 by Mrsmackpaul » Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:03 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zp1sdNL5DCg

lets see if this works some more old stuff this time in Western Australia
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Post #9 by canaldrifter » Tue Nov 05, 2013 10:10 am

Interesting that. I wonder how many of those replanted seedlings survived the recent fires?

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Post #10 by TrevorJ » Tue Nov 05, 2013 3:12 pm

Hi Tony - I guess you've viewed that now infamous "map" of Australian fires circulating through the various news areas recently :D

Western Australia fires are less frequently national news events from what I can remember, and when they do occur, house and structure losses and deaths are considerably less that of the lower eastern states. I guess this is because there is less urbanisation in that state. Back in 2011 WA had a bit of a situation with fire encroaching on coastal suburbs. In 2003 there were huge forest fires in about the same region that film featured, 330 km south east of Perth.

The recent fires in New South Wales could have been worse. Luckily enough the fellas down in the lower states rediscovered back burning just in time. ;) It's sad when various bodies won't or are reluctant do something due to potential exposure to liability claims.


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