robthedog:
Classy
youtube.com/watch?v=C3XJQvRjj3g
Not sure about the floorpan- it is just a flat bit sheet laid over the original floor, and welded around the outside? I hope not. The rest of the work is first class.
Great vid clip Anorak,
i expected that to be a photoshop creation.
Very individual taste but there cant be many scanias that age with built in microwave and fridge!
Steve
vwvanman0:
Great vid clip Anorak,
i expected that to be a photoshop creation.Very individual taste but there cant be many scanias that age with built in microwave and fridge!
Steve
There are lots of YT videos showing “restomod” (I think that is the correct word!) Brazilian Scanias. Most have hand-made interiors and fine paintwork but some, like the one in that video, have extended cabs.
This tops them all:
youtube.com/watch?v=kNtAaGqGqdM
Someone find some more footage of that machine, please.
ERF-NGC-European:
One for the Foden lovers. Ribbed for extra pleasure too!0
Maybe be ridged for pleasure but not for economy 100odd small headwinds each side. Lol.
Dig
DIG:
ERF-NGC-European:
One for the Foden lovers. Ribbed for extra pleasure too!0
Maybe be ridged for pleasure but not for economy 100odd small headwinds each side. Lol.
Dig
robthedog:
One to wet RO’s thoughts
Thoughts duly whetted! It’s a South African ERF with a locally built cab. There’s a thread on here somewhere about SA ERFs.
Here’s a Polish Jelcz with a bit of a homemade job:
And this one is not strictly a home-made one but you wouldn’t get me in it. I’ve seen how quickly those old cab-mounted top sleepers evaporate if they catch alight.
ERF-NGC-European:
And this one is not strictly a home-made one but you wouldn’t get me in it. I’ve seen how quickly those old cab-mounted top sleepers evaporate if they catch alight.0
These Renault “G” with a “dovecot” bunk were only operated by big fleets and reputed for their lack of comfort. Some of them even had their cab shortened to allow a longer trailor, staying in the overall max lenght allowed. Built to provide benefit to their owners, not comfort to their drivers!
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
And this one is not strictly a home-made one but you wouldn’t get me in it. I’ve seen how quickly those old cab-mounted top sleepers evaporate if they catch alight.0
These Renault “G” with a “dovecot” bunk were only operated by big fleets and reputed for their lack of comfort. Some of them even had their cab shortened to allow a longer trailor, staying in the overall max lenght allowed. Built to provide benefit to their owners, not comfort to their drivers!
Dovecot is a good description. I drove a couple of different MAN drawbar outfits with those on international work. Horrible!
The Renault tractor unit appears to be pulling an ordinary trailer, so why would it have a short cab?
[zb]
anorak:
The Renault tractor unit appears to be pulling an ordinary trailer, so why would it have a short cab?
IIRC the Dutch and the French (in particular) grew briefly fond of running slightly overlength approx. 41m trailers with short ‘dovecot’ day cabs but the drivers soon caught on to the ‘profit before safety’ issues.
Yes- IIRC, the 13.6m trailer length limit was introduced to kill off those torture machines- imagine the ride comfort on a short wheelbase tractor unit, with the cab suspension spread over such a short distance front-to-rear, with all that crap stuck above the roof. Around the same time, the Dutch were running shortened day cabs on rigids:
archive.commercialmotor.com/art … w-the-debu
Another piece of legislation came in, to kill off those deathtraps too. I wonder why the politicians take so long to decide that stuff is unworthy? They were on the road for a couple of years, and on the drawing boards of the manufacturers for a couple of years before that.
Edit. I read the CM roadtest. The vehicle sounds like something from the future even now- air suspension all round, mid-mounted horizontal engine, flat cab floor. The reality strikes home when you read the paragraphs about how it works- they mention cab nod and, most worrying, the fuel tank cradle has already been knocked out of square.
Why did they want 3m internal height, if it was only carrying 40 pallets?
[zb]
anorak:
Yes- IIRC, the 13.6m trailer length limit was introduced to kill off those torture machines- imagine the ride comfort on a short wheelbase tractor unit, with the cab suspension spread over such a short distance front-to-rear, with all that crap stuck above the roof. Around the same time, the Dutch were running shortened day cabs on rigids:
archive.commercialmotor.com/art … w-the-debuAnother piece of legislation came in, to kill off those deathtraps too. I wonder why the politicians take so long to decide that stuff is unworthy? They were on the road for a couple of years, and on the drawing boards of the manufacturers for a couple of years before that.
This story tells itself!
Hey, A Volvo 495 without turbo, low powered because it were simple four weelers.
Second hand imported from Germay, a so much in that time, all schorted to tractors.
This here has a confortable big sleepercab built on,with two beds, but because of the sleeper had a long weelbase, and so to long for a 40 feeter.
But not a problem in that time, that only problem was we had never papers of the English trailers, but white control Always problem
but never got a ticket.
Eric,
ERF-NGC-European:
Froggy55:
ERF-NGC-European:
And this one is not strictly a home-made one but you wouldn’t get me in it. I’ve seen how quickly those old cab-mounted top sleepers evaporate if they catch alight.These Renault “G” with a “dovecot” bunk were only operated by big fleets and reputed for their lack of comfort. Some of them even had their cab shortened to allow a longer trailor, staying in the overall max lenght allowed. Built to provide benefit to their owners, not comfort to their drivers!
Dovecot is a good description. I drove a couple of different MAN drawbar outfits with those on international work. Horrible!
you can still get geezers into them ,this loading here today for germany , german outfit , polish reg, and a 4 potter engine, nice outfit, till you get to the front .
tony
robthedog:
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The TAF Volvo uses the same cab as the Renault “G”, in its narrow version. Certainly a nightmare to drive such a truck overnight!