I have recently learned my great uncle has a vintage fire engine, it must be 80 years old or more (and doesn’t run). It’s smaller than some modern SUVs!

@trainman05matthewb.65

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like a restoration waiting to happen

@andrewreynolds4949

Жыл бұрын

@@trainman05matthewb.65 He has a number of things in line before it

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

There's some really cool smaller appliances!

Such a great variety of buses there! From older Leylands and Routemasters to newer Dennis Darts, Volvo B9TLs, Scania N94s and the Ipswich Bus Optare Metrocity and of course Jupiter!

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It was quite a good show

Like they say regarding airplanes,"If it looks like it will fly, it will fly." With the wide track and low center of gravity, it looks like it will corner extremely well.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Love that logic 😂

What a great collection of buses old & new at the show that Lawrie attended with Jupe's the Honourable Bus as well. Here's to seeing Jupe's next adventure on the open road & where it goes next.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

If it keeps going!

Wow, Jupiter actually made it to a show on its own? That _is_ a feat!

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

😂 Isn't it just!

I love old tractors that are basically an engine and transmission with a seat on top - no chassis, just hardworking lumps of metal with a seat and 2 wings attached.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant isn't it

Cool truck I like how you showed how easy it can be to lose your phone

As gorgeous as that fire engine is I can't help but think a properly swanky camper back would make that a hell of a holiday/party wagon 😍

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Oh you could make something very cool from the platform

Seeing Jupiter at this sort of event makes me want to see her at something like the emergency vehicle's day a Brooklands Museum at Weybridge in surrey. Be nice to see her with fellow Fire engines next to Concorde.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Would be great - but cost a fortune to get it there 😂

My friend and I bought one just like it and did Carlisle, London, San Sabastian, Madrid Barcelona, Lyon, Annan, Carlisle. Old Pennis loved a drop of Diesel! I regret selling it. Fantastic machine

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

That's a lot braver than I!

The Peeling's and Smith's coaches brought back childhood memories of coaches called the GNE (Great North Eastern) that took us between Darlington and Carlisle in the late 70's, early 80's. I love buses like that or those that have chrome rails on the seat backrests and semi-auto gearboxes, childhood memories again.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Great looking things aren't they!

@erenkoilehersey7946

10 ай бұрын

What is semi auto gearbox? Differences between auto and semi auto gearbox?

Great example of a fine fire truck. Always loved the sound of these perkins diesels, although I bet you're deaf for a while after driving!

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! Yes, it's all very exciting driving about the back roads, but doing the speed limit on a main road... Its not the greatest

This reminds me of travelling in a preserved 1986 Dennis RS from Dublin city to a vintage vehicle rally in Stradbally in County Laois (pronounced leesh) in 2006 here in Ireland . Lovely machine . Big Paul owned it but was not licensed to drive it at the time . he brought in his friend and licensed truckie bigger Paul to drive it . They're known collectively as the 2 mad Pauls ! The reason fire fighters could drive them around so quickly is they were trained to do so, they drove them in anger every day and got used to them. Preservationists like my friend paul and yourself Lawrie would only take thier fire engines out in rally season . In ireland we would have a lot less rallies then what you'd have in the UK too 🇬🇧

@oscarosullivan4513

Жыл бұрын

Has he got a sabre yet.

Looked like a great day out! That Ipswich route 13 bus used to be owned by TrentBarton and ran on route i4 from Nottingham, which passes the opposite side of a hill from where I live. It's a relatively rare Optare Tempo SR, with only 17 in the country

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Oh really?

I really like that little double decker across from Jupiter.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Yeah it was smart

Thanks Lawrie, interesting selection, & the run would have done Jupiter good! 🙏

@LadyMoonstar6601

Жыл бұрын

She has such a lovely sounding engine, while idling it almost sounds like the engine has a heartbeat, I can’t explain it but the rhythmic sound her engine makes is magic

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It's lovely isn't it! Was great to get her out

Great vid Lawrie, really enjoyed it 🤗

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Me too!

You know you want that fergie...perfect patina as well. But perhaps a tad pricey. The vauxhall cresta next to it is the same model as used in The Specials video for Ghosttown.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

More than I can afford currently!

A grand day out for Jupiter. And going by the comments made I'm guessing that an ice cream van and a bus may soon be joining the fleet. Keep up the good work.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I would get very fat if I owned an ice cream truck!

It's big It's red Therefore it must be a bus

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Excatly! Flawless logic

Excellent adventure. Glad Jupiter is behaving. Be well.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it - and me too!

Great video good too see there was no issues . Jupiter does sound sweet , I could see you were impressed let’s hope you get more invites to places as time goes on .

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Yes indeed!

Keep up the good work, Not something im usually interested in, but you do manage to make things more interesting.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Jupiter in ascendance. Go Jupiter 👌👍😉

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I was overjoyed to get it out

My scout group has those exact folding wooden chairs. It looks like yours wobble side to side like ours does.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Quality chairs!

man it does look great and sadly that the weather was to hot. but i am well glad that the Dennis did his drive

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It was very hot. Was very pleased she made it too!

4:11 Lawrie clearly enjoyed a cheeky 2 tone siren activation going from his cheeky laugh a mate of mine will like this as there a bit of a 2 tone siren nerd

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It's fun to blast it once you're off the public roads

HAC628D from 1966. Bit like a coach. Was originally a Midland Red vehicle back in the 60s but now looks resplendent in Stratford Blue livery. Constantmesh on 1st and 2nd gears, then synchromesh on 3rd and 4th gears.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Do like the blue

I swear if I saw that on some rest spot, I would say, "Hey, you got some piece of history here, mind if I take some pictures?"

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I'd be delighted!

I was sure that after you said "if I can get this back to the shed, it will be a successful day out" at the end, it wasn't going to start 🤠. What great comedy that would have been

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

😂 😂 😂 It would have been typical of it

"I'm not scared.....petrified" Yeah this is gonna be a great video

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It was fun

I used to kid that my second car, a 1976 Cadillac Sedan de Ville was the only car legally parked in a tour bus only lot. You've got me beat. You should definitely have won the prise for " Best fire truck at a Bus Show" really!

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

That's what I thought 😂

Shame I didn't come, I really did want to go but my only transport was either "busy" or something else but I usually go Stonham with dad for the truck shows and car boot but I do think you should come to more Stonham shows with the collection 👍

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It's just fitting it in with everything else going on!

Looks like a grand day out. Looks like a popular vehicle at the show. What kid can pass up a fire engine? All those buses reminded me of my old bus which I miss. It was a '48 Chevy school bus converted into what was for me, home. A mobile college apartment. The engine space was so big, the engine so small you pretty much climbed up into it to do work under the hood.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's awesome!

@alwaysbearded1

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm It really was. Cozy, well thought out. But I did not have the money or tools to rebuild the engine after it melted a piston so I sold it. When I bought it the door had been replaced by a wood door with windows. Shift knob was a glass doorknob. It had no horn so I loaned it a spare horn from a '71 Triumph Bonneville.

Quite good.😳

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

With the foldable seat I no declare this a bus! :D

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Excatly!

You'd just want to drive around a field with the blues and two's on.

@oscarosullivan4513

Жыл бұрын

Bring the two tone back

Those (14:20) are Wright bodied Volvo B10BLEs dating from probably around the late 1990s

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Not a bad looking thing

And lawrie is oblivious to the phone falling out 😁

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Professional 😂 picked it up after the take

You should have shown an update on your Ruston as you were at the MSLR.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It'll feature soon enough

Had a relitive who brought one of these and re purposes it as a tool support wagon for the rally's for the age they don't drive to bad I think

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It's a lovely thing to drive!

What engine does it have? Power and displacement etc how many gears does it have?

15:40Probably a Volvo B10M-46 (short wheelbase version) with, as the badge says, Jonckheere bodywork

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Oh right!

@andypreston1524

3 ай бұрын

1985 Jonckheere bodied Dennis Lancet 👍👍

What injury did you do to your knee Lawrie? It looks bruised

No footage of the little Ruston while you were at the MSLR :( :P

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It'll appear soon enough!

Most of these look like they are still in service.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

One or two were!

@oscarosullivan4513

Жыл бұрын

No longer are. The oldest nowadays are Dennis Sabres and Daggers

While your fire engine does work fine as a "virtual bus", I am a little surprised you have not actually purchased an old bus. Storage would probably be more of an issue than desire.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It's having somewhere to put it!

Can you fill it up with water, are you allowed to spray the water and what would you do if a fire broke out???

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Yes, but not from a hydrant. I can do what I want with it 😂 Depends what the situation was. If I had water on board and it was something small I could deal with, we'd put it out. Anything bigger leave it to the professionals.

@CortinasAndClassics

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm you must get questions like this all the time when out and about.

Never mind out, how do you get an artic in there!

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

It's a bit easier on the way in

never knew they did a manual dennis rs?

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

They did!

Where is your Ruston 48DS?

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Sat down the line

How dare you not win when your Fire truck self identifies as a bus

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I know right!

Looks like you had the same problem as the event I was at. Too hot no public.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Pretty much.

Do you have a class 1 or 2 HGV?

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Class 2

Yeah drop something

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Pardon?

Can the fire engine tow a car trailer? can it hold most of your tools? I just saw the back and no trailer hitch, so you would have to install that; and if you want to fill it with tools for road repairs, you might have to take some of the hoses and fire gear out.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I'd require a different licence to be able to haul a trailer with it. It would fit all my tools though.

@alan6832

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm Bummer. though it might be worth getting the license if you can.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

@@alan6832 it's expensive and currently I have no use for it

@alan6832

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm You do have a use for it. It would enable you to tow cars and trucks with the fire truck. I can't say if that makes it worth the money though, however I think quite a number of youtube classic mechanics are not paying enough attention to obtaining a classic transporter capable of moving most of the other stuff they work with.

@oscarosullivan4513

Жыл бұрын

They are designed to carry tools

does the fire engine come under a hgv2 licence

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I've got class two, or just C. Obviously it depends on the vehicle, there are some lighter appliances on the market, but that's what I needed for Jupes.

Spotted a chalres

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

The lesser spotted!

😎😎😎😎😎👍

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

👍

can you pump out water withe the Fire Engine ???? and if you can. can you use one of the fire engine hoses

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I need to plumb up the pump since it was rebuilt. But it *should* work

@ThatVoxelBlock

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm ok i wander how Powerful it is

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

@@ThatVoxelBlock enough to knock someone over from when we used it before

@ThatVoxelBlock

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm so last time you used it you knock someone over with it

not trying to be nosey or anything but where do you live because im a norwich lad

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I'm in Ipswich

Don't hold the spokes of the steering wheel.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

They're so grabable

Dennis made buses. Jupiter is a Dennis, therefore it is a bus.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Excatly!

I don't think you're allowed to show blue lights working or otherwise bud. You're supposed to cover them up on the road.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

They're isolated for when it's on the road. The police have not had an issue with it to date.

We have taken fire engine to afew bus shows

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Ah the honary bus title!

8:28 :)

@jaylewinton7939

Жыл бұрын

Was wondering if anyone else noticed . Hope Lawrie noticed and didn't run over it

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

I noticed at the time. Just kept going 😂

No seat belts?

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Not manditory in hgvs unless built after 2001.

@oscarosullivan4513

Жыл бұрын

Looking at footage from Blues and twos they still often dressed on the way to a scene in the appliance.

Jupiter could on a technicality be classed as a bus as it can carry passengers as she has more than two seats. One form of bus that always gets overlooked at a bus show is a minibus. How I would love to see someone have a restored old Ford Transit minibus or as I remember from my childhood a 1990's LDV minibus as this was one bus i remember well when I was in primary school, as it was a bus that took me to a afterschool club. Very slow and noisy things but characterful. The next generation of LDV minibuses were just as bad.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

A mini bus has more than 9 seats. Jupes has 6. So can't swing that one!

£1500 is waaaay too much for that T20, I'd say half of that maximum

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking

My honest opinion ( I am not a car man I'm a train man) I don't think the price of that tractor reflects the quality of the material you're getting. if it was in perfect working condition not only mechanically but cosmetically I would definitely worth the price and maybe a bit higher. but in the condition it in now especially with all the restoration work you're going to have to do to get up and looking it's best again ( assuming the engine is capable of running) It would not be worth the price.

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

See, that's what I thought

Sadly yes 1500 quid is actually a decent price for a petrol te20

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Ouch!

pls sell me jupes x

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

What you offering?

@purplemoonproductions9269

Жыл бұрын

@@lmm how much ya want relastcily

If you lost houden Phone well.. ik fell out of youre pokit wen you sitet Down on youre tjare nextst to youre Firefox truk

@lmm

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, I felt it at the time.