Classic cars forum & vehicle restoration.

[Rootes75]

I have always been fascinated and drawn to rarer vehicles. I am not belittling cars that have survived in larger numbers but I do very much like finding and and restoring something unusual.

So, just recently I was asked if I knew much about a rare Commer truck. I have spent the last week or so researching the model and yesterday I was told that there is a sole survivor in unrestored, rough condition.

You can imagine my thoughts...do I enquire further as to where it is and if it would be available??
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[badhuis]

Of course you should do that!
Just hope that the current owner is realistic with the asking price because rare does not automatically mean valuable. That may (only?) be the case for rare versions of popular classics, flat floor E-types comes to mind.
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[Ray White]

If you have the space then go for it. As a buyer of a derelict Commercial you are probably also quite rare; something I think I would press home with the owner. I would emphasis to the seller (if they want to sell) that there is no profit to be made from restoring it.

Best of luck.

(On a different make, what I want to know is: where have all the low mileage ex Army Bedford RLs gone? They seem never to come up for sale but thousands were sold off.)

[Rootes75]

I do think that I will follow this up, it may not get anywhere but its worth asking the question.

I dont know about anyone else on here but after what we have gone through in the last few months we have sort have said to ourselves life is for living and why not push the boundaries sometimes?

As for Bedford RL's Ray, we see a lot of Green Goddess Bedfords but very few GS body RL's.
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[Rick]

[emmerson]

Prior to the "posh" RL Bedford does anyone remember the QL? As an apprentice we had one as a recovery truck. You could hear the transmission whine form a mile away!

[Rootes75]

I think the whine from the QL and MW Bedfords is very nostalgic. One chap we know has a QL with the radio body, its quite a big truck.
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[emmerson]

[Rootes75]

Its interesting how many wartime trucks were converted to recovery vehicles.

My father was an apprentice in a garage in Wells, Somerset, he has often told stories of the wartime Dodge that they had as a tow truck.
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[Rick]

[Rootes75]

No photos I'm afraid Rick but I will ask him the type, he will be able to tell me.
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[Rootes75]

I havr messaged my Father and he says the garage had a wartime Dodge WC51, it had a canvas roof and no doors so he said on winter call outs it was b****y cold!!
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[Rick]

[Rick]