Over 600 vintage vehicle road run - but what is Lawrie Driving?
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
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As some of you will have seen, Lawrie has announced that he was going to take part in the Ipswich to Felixstowe Road run with his Fire Engine, but, and why is he driving?
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Lawrie - Presenter - overly excited to be taking part in East Anglia's Premier Road run,
Additional footage provided by Charles, Craig, and Tom.
A video edited by Lawrie. Grade by Matt.
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Love the fact that the cab of that Dennis is no more than a wooden shed placed ontop of a chassis. At least the dual carriageway blast would have blown a few cobwebs from the engine.
It's the longest run it's had for a very long time!
The "tiny little police van" is in fact the actual Mini police van that Nick Berry drove in Heartbeat
Oh really? A famous vehicle!
And the Austin goodwood behind is also a heartbeat car.
Lawrie's reaction getting on the freeway is just 2022 in a nutshell.
😂 😂 😂
Hello @@lmm Can you remember the Ipswich transport museum fire engine day
Why on earth are you sitting to the side of the steering wheel & not directly behind it?
Whoever designed the cab of the Dennis couldn't even pronounce 'ergonomics', never mind understand the meaning of the word.
Lawrie's terror on the dual-carriageway is probably directly related to the fact it has very poor brakes by today's standards.
He looked like he was 1/8th of a second from messing himself.
I truly appreciated the drone flyover. That was an amazing view!
Thank you, really shows the scale of it!
That TS3 engined Commer is wonderful! Proper bark to it, probably my favourite sounding engine
It's wonderful isn't it
I was right it is a Deltic..I would love one of those engines in my truck 👍
@@freemanscott78 Am I mixing things up? but isn't the commer ts3 engine known as the "double knocker" as it's a 3 cylinder, 6 piston opec engine with a single crankshaft, I thought deltic referred the 9 & 18 cylinder Napier/GEC engines with opec cylinders arranged in a triangle formation, or was the deltic name a designation given to the engine by the manufacturer?
Love the sound of the TS3, the 2 stroke scream mixed with the whistle from the blower is unlike anything else.
Good Moring Lawrie's Mechanical Marvels
Hello!
"My ambition is to break the horn" *A Few Moments Later* "I can't believe I broke the horn!"
I thought I'd at least get some good use out of it!
Me and my Dad were there in a 1938 Lanchester LA11. Broke down departing Ipswich with fuel problems but had it fixed
Oh, I'm glad I wasn't the only one!
@@lmm Been sat for over 20 years plus the lockdown in my Auntie's garage.
Thanks for showing the Felixstowe run to the world! I always used to love going down to the park to see all the vehicles, or just watching them come along the bypass...good memories!
It was always a staple of my childhood
This was so enjoyable to watch. The reaction on the freeway was priceless! I know that feeling very well from driving old trucks on the freeway... driving is not quite the right word... hearding is more like it.
I was nicely surprised to see a bit of old America iron at the show.
Thanks for sharing this with us.
You're welcome! It was quite the experience trying to get it up to speed!
It sounded like Lawrie was but moments away from wetting or soiling himself due to the prospect of his imminent death.
You were never that terrified driving Redruth when you collected it.
I never knew Felixstowe had a promenade, being known for a vast acreage of containers and cranes.
That commer knocker sounds amazing. Can't wait fir the video
It's wonderful isn't it!
The Rolls mpg story reminds me of a mate who in a moment of madness thought a V12 Jaguar was exactly what he needed. After realising it had two tanks and it did double mph figures only on very occasional run outs he got rid very quickly.
They're glorious though!
This looked like fun, Wish they would do events like this down under.
Do they not? Kind of assumed this sort of thing happened everywhere
@@lmm yes we do, at least here in Victoria, there are several very similar events.
The Dennis probably just missed being able to use the Guildford by-pass dual carriageway, which passed the factory, because that was opened in 1934. However if it had to be driven to it's first owner up the A3 to london it would have been likely to have used the Kingsston-By-Pass.
Incidentally. the Surrey County Council steam loc which featured on arecent statfold Barn video MIGHT have been used in the construction of the Kingston-By-Pass as well as the guildford one, so there may well be a direct connection between the Loco and the Lorry.
Oh that's kind of cool!
I love your channel especially the excitement you have for some of the vehicles. It brings me back to when I was a kid and would go with my grandparents to museums ,military and car shows. I'd get so excited because I loved that kind of stuff and my grandpa loved it to.
Really glad to hear you're enjoying it!
Lovely old commer .ILearned to drive a lorry in one same on trading estate about 1979 when I was 17 years old . Good Old Wagon 👍👍
They're great things!
Beautiful trucks, that was one heck of a car show.
It's great isn't it!
I will make a special mention to the Tractor 26:06 , as I don't think anyone else will. Well done Lawrie. I've only just stumbled across your channel so I have a lot of catching up to do. Richard from Sydney, Australia.
Quite the trek by tractor!
Hope you enjoy the other stuff we get up to!
The old Commer 2-stroke was a blast from the past
Mega thing isn't it!
Now that was a nice looking Freightshaker! all that's missing is a Flatbed behind it
Very cool wasn't it
@@lmm I'll say! Looked like a FLD model. See plenty of those over here!
The thing that always terrifies me the most about the Model-T and essentially any pre-1950s car is their liberal use of plain window glass rather than any type of safety glass. When you know that the windshield can at any time explode into a shower of large, razorsharp chunks, most of them heading straight for the soft, squishy driver sitting behind said windshield, that's definitely more information than you required. This was a fun 'feature' of the Model-T from what I have read.
Not sure when they began using safety glass for windshields, but hoping that this 1936 Dennis was at the very least retrofitted with it :)
The entire cab was rebuilt, so it should be good!
@@lmm That's good to hear!
As much as I like vintage vehicles, I do appreciate modern-day safety features, since I have this strong dislike of dying & being injured. Quaint, I know :)
@@MayaPosch yes, it's something I share!
Legend say cars are still trying to exit the park.
They are!
What an absolutely fabulous video of a great collection of vintage vehicles of all shapes and sizes. I did not know it was going to be a screaming success!!! There were plenty of cars that I would love to own myself. Thank you Lawrie for another great video.
You're most welcome!
I did once have to drive a Subaru 360 on the interstate. The on ramp was not even close to long enough for 356cc's to get a car up to speed... (luckily in Kansas, the minimum speed on the interstate is only 45mph, but anything under 55 is not really safe). At 50mph, the 2-stroke engine produced a deafening roar that sounded something like 40 leafblowers vs. 40 vacuum cleaners, sucked into a tornado.
Hahahah, that's brilliant. What an experience
Oh my goodness, this was absolutely hilarious. Probably my favorite LMM video ever! Actually scratch that, one of my favorite videos on RUclips! Lawrie screaming on the dual carriageway was absolutely brilliant. And the breakdown and miraculous Dennis restart was amazing. All the vehicles there were awesome too. I will have to attend this one year, it looks mega fun :D
Thanks LMM crew :D
Thank you very much! High praise indeed - Glad you enjoyed it!
I'm surprised to see an American truck at the show, and I never realized how out-of-place it looks against its British and Swedish counterparts. Actually the "conventional" cabs are far more popular in the US nowadays, while cabovers remain the most popular in the UK and Europe, so that Scania conventional is actually a bit of an outlier.
Also the hood ornament is definitely not standard, I believe it's a reference to the film Convoy (1978), where the main character (Rubber Duck)'s truck (which is actually a 1977 Mack RS700L) has this hood ornament instead of the standard Mack bulldog.
Is that it! I knew it was from the film, but thought a certain company didn't have a mascot so people put the duck on it
@@lmm Yeah, Freightliners don't normally have hood ornaments, but it seems like the "Rubber Duck" hood ornament has been applied to just about any truck make and model there is.
@@harrisongrant8558 Oh fair enough!
British people have the cleanest windows on the planet . Both houses and cars.
Oh really?
Your not the only one who wants a scammell explorer, I have no use for one but definitely want one.
They're amazing aren't they!
Great vlog Lawrie. Nothing worse than having your own vehicle and not being able to use it. 10 year tyre rule on Jupiter I guess. Would love to see more of that Commer tractor unit and the T143 Scania. Stay safe ,keep the vids coming.
I'd love to do them too! And yes, quite correct.
The music during the car lineup sounds like it came straight from a 90s Amiga game
It's great isn't it!
The Reliant Ant was originally called the Reliant TW9, it was only called the ANT after 1978 when BTB engineering bought the whole production line and produced them in Leeds until 1986 I think it was, most people just call them the Ant
That's it! Thanks for filling me in!
8:00 God damn that Diamond T was a monster
Wasn't it just
Great video, and that 101 in the background at 31.40 sounds delicious. I miss Road Runs.
It was great fun!
My D&T Tech teacher had a C5, once brought it out to show us - presume he always had it in the building so as to do that. Amazed to see so many in one place!
The absolute terror you showed when going onto the dual carriageway got a lot of laughter out of me! Though given the vehicle, it's understandable. Still a good looking vehicle though - which goes for all of them, even if there's the odd one that technically shouldn't be there!
Ought to visit classic shows more often tbh, perhaps see if there's a run like this nearby too.
I've never seen so many in one place! They're really cool things. Did not enjoy the duel carriageway. Felt very vulnerable!
Shows are normally a bit of a laugh!
Thank you for making me laugh when you went onto the carriageway The face you’re pulling is a classic. lol 😂
It was an experience!
Another great video mate and from your fan here in Cornwall
Glad you enjoyed it!
Lawrie's lorry. Ha. Great videos - keep 'em coming. Thanks for sharing.
We'll do our best!
Just put my tag on my newest ride, 2003 Buick Century with 80580 miles . Gonna go do my best lowrider impression .
Oh really?
I was hoping it would be the dump truck, but that lorry looks awesome 🚚
Dump truck would be even more scary
Dennis Made small buses based like the 4 ton: the Mace was a half cab and the ace was a bonnet version if that helps!
Oh thanks for the clarification!
That Commer is gorgerous
Isn't it just!
YOU feel old! Did you see that lovely Volvo 164 in the parade? I used to daily one of those! I have also been driven around in a Ford Pop ( admittedly by my grandfather)
No comment at this time 😂
Looks like an awesome event, too far away from me oop north though otherwise I'd go next year. Took some bottle to drive a wood cab lorry on a dual carriage way 😧
It's well worth a trip!
It was quite alarming, but very exciting
In reg your comments about the MGB GT, they are fun to drive. Mostly a basic, effective distillation of a car to its functionality.
The one I had the pleasure of driving didn't have brake pressure. Forty on a Chicago side street is the wrong kind of exciting when you find you have no brakes.
No. No it is not
What's the little blue car at 7:30? It's adorable.
My 1950 Crosley also has a non-syncromesh transmission, and it's... certainly something. I've gotten good at upshifting without grinding, but I think that's mainly because I cheat and shift at low speeds where I can just let the engine go to near idle and be like "yep, now it's time to put it in gear" as opposed to doing a proper double shift rev match. :p
It does have the distinct design oversight of the long horizontally laid out shifter having enough weight for it to fall out of 2nd into neutral if you're idling on a downhill however.
The blue car is a 1955 Ford Popular 103E
@@alanbthompson822 1955? Holy, that body styling looks mid-30s. Though I guess European cars kept the older styles longer than here in the US.
Pretty car isn't it!
@@lmm Indeed it is.
That looks like an awful driving position my good man....
A fair few gems there I must say!
Excellent video as always! 👍🏻👌🏻👏🏻
That it is!
I don't know whether it's the camera angle, but it looks as if the steering wheel is somewhere near the middle of the cab and the driving seat is squeezed right up against the door
It is how it is. Its very strange
@@lmm was the driving seat not a bench?
@@ZJS0113 just a seat in the corner. The engine is physically larger than the original
@@lmm oh right, no wonder it looked so awkward to drive 😂 great video, btw
@@ZJS0113 thank you very much!
I'm not sure which reaction I liked more, the one on the dual carriageway, "oh god I'm old. When did that happen ?" or just the acuard silence for the lorry with the very unfortunate name...
Pleased to hear you enjoyed it!
That's it Lawrie I had to wait till 17:16 but you have just joined a real truckers club. Driving crash box out on the road how did it feel and how many times did you have to stop and start allover from 1st?
Actually surprisingly few! I managed to get it to shift down a few times when I was slowing, and just explained that fourth was an acceptable gear to go round a roundabout.
I think 4 times I had to stop because I couldn't find anything
@@lmm LOL some years ago I worked for a Derbyshire Quarry driving 8wheeler tippers and I had to learn/drive twin splitters. Oh that first fortnight the miles I must have done in neutral. Happy days.
Absolutely epic! :-)
Thank you
At 2:25 the original duck 🦆 can be seen at the beginning of the movie "Big Trouble in Little China" with Kurt Russell.
That's it
Congrats and kudos to your co driver :D EDIT I miss my old Serria.
Thank you - my mum had one when I was growing up - I miss that
I'm so far behind on all these videos, last time I was around, think it was a birthday live stream or such.
That would have been January!
Sadly you say Dennis and all I can think about it the new Bin trucks that I've seen coming out of the factory round the corner.
Yeah, I understand that - I just tend to just think of the fire engine
Is that an optical illution, or is the steering wheel really offset towards your left?
Really, really offset
Did I see that green goddess driving around retford last week?
I have no idea - there are a huge number still in preservation
Apart from your relentless screaming a very good watch, what was the date of the actual event.
It was the first of May. Glad you enjoyed it minus the screaming
The timber cab is there so they can harvest it for the drivers coffin in the case of a crash. People back in the day were far braver than we are.
Oh. Wonderful 😂
I really want that six wheel Range Rover/Carmichael fire tender. Just how Thunderbirds does that look.
It's mega isn't it!
Great video Lawrie, was that a Simonds bus behind Jupiter in the yard? Fun fact: my ex’s dad designed the ‘leaf’ graphics on those buses.
Oh really? It may well have been. I've seen them about certainly
Oh really? It may well have been. I've seen them about certainly
last time I looked the Sinclair C5 where going for 20 to 25k
No way! My dad had two of them and let them go cheap.
Probably a fuel issue, fuel vaporisation perhaps. Leave it for a bit to cool and it'd probably go again. Not altogether surprising if it's the first time it's covered any distance for some time
Me and my Dad suffered problems with our Lanchester. It's been sat over 20 years so probably just some old fuel coming up into the carboureter. Cleaned out the carb and headed for home. I felt as if I had lost faith in the car but we can make her better
But it sorted itself out! Which was very exciting!
@@lmm Looked very nice. Shame our car played up
Okay, was it an optical illusion, or was Lawrie sitting to the right of the steering wheel while driving?
No, the cab is that poorly laid out.
That's a PROPER Mesters lorry.
It's great isn't it!
Is that wheel off to your left? or is it the camera angle, because that looks incredibly uncomfortable to drive!
It's very much off centre - due to the bigger engine I think the seat isn't where it should be
21:50
Not sure who died there more: Lawrie driving, or me laughing!
screaming like he isn't driving something the size of a semi truck. And getting passed by a small 2 seater.
It was very scary!
And people say my Suzuki Samurai is uncomfortable and doesn't have any extras...
Height of luxury in comparison!
The oldest thing I've ever driven on a public road was a Mercedes LP 608 lorry from around 1968 (picture-google it if you don't know what it is). Even this was pure luxury in comparison, featuring a synchronized gearbox, lots of power (80 hp), a top-speed above 80 km/h, 2 (two!) windscreen wipers, and a spacious cab where you can sit directly behind the steering wheel.
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You had quite the adventure, didn't you? :D I wonder what broke on it. (Also, forgive my invoking what very obviously was something of a traumatic episode for you, but just how fast DID it get up to on the Dual Carriageway?)
It's a rattly old scoundrel of a thing, either way. The way the door just about came open when it fired up again after having its temper tantrum about made me dizzy from laughin! Also... oh dear, the placement of everything. No thought whatsoever to ergonomics in any way. (Then again, it's literally a large wooden box with a chrome grille pasted on the front and a bed at the back, so I don't know what I was expecting there.) I gather the suspension's a bit tired, as well... running it 'flat out' must've about had your back teeth about to rattle off!
Oh, BTW, add that little Reliant Ant to the list of things I'd love to see you drive, and that... was that a WW1 Liberty Truck? The thing that was the oldest thing there, or at least had your little Dennis beat by "quite a lot". That goes on the list as well.
I got it to it's complete max speed of 46 mph! It had nothing more to give!
It's full of character! A real experience to drive!
The Ant is very amusing. I'd love to drive one
Couldn’t you have simply shifted into neutral and not needed to continuously hold the clutch depressed?
As I mentioned, I'd such difficulty getting it into first to start off with, (reverse then rocking to forward) I didn't want be unable to move and block the que of traffic as we left!
@@lmm That makes perfect sense. Ugh, what a pain. I imagine it would have been easier if the linkage had been used a bit more, or if it had not been so old (even if built to the same design).
Is that Commer Deltic powered ..
It is two stroke
have you ever driven a Reliant at 50mph through corners?
Not overly steep corners, but yes
Question. At aprox 3:30 point is green car with green/cream caravan. Can you, anyone here, confirm car make model? To me it looks like Isuzu based known loved in Oz as "Gemini " . L
Vauxhall Gemini - as far as I can read the tags - Vauxhall being the General Motors brand in UK vs Holden in OZ. So most likely the British incarnation of the Isuzu Gemini - which really was a marvelous fun car.
I believe that's correct
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Well at least this time Jupiter isn't immobilized by an issue of her own making.
For once!
You got to drive on the freeway .....
We are all going to die!
Know the feeling I drive my 1914 Model T Ford everywhere. Lol
I find Model T's so difficult due to the pedals. Have to think so hard about what I'm doing.
@@lmm Just think of them as a tractor. Lol
Plan on going to the great Dorchester steam rally?
Oh noooo
More or less my thoughts at the time!
Did not know that a American truck was legal over there
Why wouldn't it be legal? Just needs to pass an MOT (thinking about the age, probably doesn't need an MOT)
There are restrictions on towing, because of the overall train length.
@@lmm oh yeah, forgot about max lengths
If it was just tires you needed then you could have just driven it anyway and changed them after
That is not legal.
ooh first ??
it appears so
and the drone shot of all the vehicles lined up on the Prom .. looked like a really good railway diorama
Thank you very much!
Dude its a dual carriageway theres is no minimum speed drive at what you are happy with nobody is going to ram a lorry that size
Whilst technically true, when traffic around you wants to be doing a minimum of 56, it's a large hazard on the road, having a knock on effect to other road users by being a rolling road block.