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It's a brave man that drives an open sided (open topped) truck in the UK but you've got to be especially keen to do it in Cumbria. It's a beautiful part of the country but it's not well known for it's weather, or at least not good weather. We used to go to Grasmere every August bank holiday when I was a kid and invariably you couldn't see the tops of the fells for cloud and were walking in ankle deep mud, and that's when the rain wasn't coming in horizontally. It is a fantastic area though, in any weather. I can remember watching storms blow in across Windermere and hiking up Great Gable and Scafell Pike in driving rain.
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I bought this 1st Jeep from Metamet (www.oldclassiccar.co.uk/jeep-metamet.htm) for 55.00 pounds and on the way home had to get petrol. It took me about 3 trips around the Jeep looking for the filler cap before I realised it was under the horse hair seat cushion I had been sitting on. I filled up and set off again but was imediately pulled up by a police car. They wanted to check the steering because the front wheels were "shimmying" when I accelerated. I didn't know at the time that it was in 4 wheel drive and the split track rod with a bell crank lever in the middle can allow an awful lot of play which isn't felt at the steering wheel. That was OK but they then checked the handbrake which of course did not work. That was when I realised what owning a Jeep was all about and what I had let myself in for, although I had no idea I would be still punishing myself 50 odd years later!
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IanW.
Last edited by Flatfender; 24-05-13 at 11:52 AM.
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great pictures ian. look like you had a lot of fun back then driving and flying your jeep. how come you didn't get a landrover?
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