Ford Transit Forum

by **GPM01** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:15 pm

You had a good reason for not making it buddy, no-one is gonna blame you for that.....You gonna be able to get to TransitMania?

by **peter1975** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:19 pm

GPM01 wrote:You had a good reason for not making it buddy, no-one is gonna blame you for that.....You gonna be able to get to TransitMania?

not at mo as only car i got now is a series 3 land rover and its to hevy to drive that far with the way i am

i drive artics as a living but i cant return to work for 6 mths so im house bound

sorry
regards peter

by **peter1975** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 5:32 pm

Should have said what a fantastic job you have done so far

god i wish i have been there . i take my hat off to all involved
a BIG WELL DONE
Peter

by **psv-hgv-flt** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 6:13 pm

GPM01 wrote:
peter1975 wrote:CAN i say i am relly sorry i did not make it . as i was on the way there on friday going up A 42 got side swiped by a hgv got broken leg and two cracked ribs car is a write off and it it had the granda seats in it but fook knows were car is at mo only just got out of hospital
please except my apoliges
i would have loved to have been there
regards peter

Holy crapola Pete, that's bad news mate.....No need for apologies mate, nothing you could have done about that Hope you recover soon fella....

yea, a d1ck head in a hgv (left hooker, foreigner) nearly had me and the trailer with the doner transit on the back, on the m1 taking it to sheffield.
i went past then he swerved at the trailer, (was inches off) i see all the time that the foreign hgv,s never have there mirrors set up right (kerb mirror) :evil:

by **Muttley** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:13 pm

transitgeoff wrote:
Luke wrote:
transitgeoff wrote: not to do such a mammoth project so far away from nearly everyone

people have lives/businesses to run, sheffield isnt exactly central now is it diesel @£1.36 ish a litre what did you really expect

I work for myself, I am not a rich man, I did £70's worth of diesel and almost a day out of work to move one of the donor vans. I did that for the good of the forum and felt good about it

Its no good knocking others for the efforts they made and sitting around doing nowt yourself now is it??

by **peter1975** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 7:37 pm

x2 i got wrote off car / broken leg /and ribs on route :evil:

but still have respect for the guys and girls that turned up and of course those that helped with recovery of the vans

by **KING OF ENGLAND** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:45 pm

I feel bad now only helping out for one day(saturday) sorry about that guys
but hats of to you all i saw how hard you all worked, i had a great time and
thanks to all for making me feel welcome.

by **Nadjenka** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 8:59 pm

Muttley wrote:
transitgeoff wrote:people have lives/businesses to run, sheffield isnt exactly central now is it diesel @£1.36 ish a litre what did you really expect

I work for myself, I am not a rich man, I did £70's worth of diesel and almost a day out of work to move one of the donor vans. I did that for the good of the forum and felt good about it Its no good knocking others for the efforts they made and sitting around doing nowt yourself now is it??

Well said Muttley

I'm 7 months pregnant, carrying around what feels like a ton of extra weight on swollen elephant ankles and can't do much else but huff and puff around the stove, but I tried my best anyway. Everybody did :!:

Every single person that turned up or helped in any way had to go out of their way and make effort, and put their money on the table for this project in one form or another, but it is for a charity and something good will come out of it at the end :!:

We all had a choice - to sit at home and be sarcastic about it, or do our best to help the project, it's kind of the point of it all - make the best out of whatever little you have or can do!

Everyone that turned up showed amazing dedication and true passion for our (t)rusty Transits and that's what was (and still is) important and heart warming

. Just to see how they put in literally everything they possibly could, deserves a tap on the shoulder and respect at the least! Working their socks and skin off, made me very proud to be part of a group that have true believers and beating heart for ambitious projects like this.

Hats off to all of you that were there, it's great to see how human passion and skilled hands can make what seems like mammoth project jump from the paper and computer screens into reality :!:

You are the reason, why "white van man" will always be a hero in my eyes

by **peter1975** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:04 pm

well done & said nadjenka

by **Altransit** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 9:06 pm

peter1975 wrote:well done & said nadjenka

Ditto

by **transitgeoff** » Tue Jul 05, 2011 10:43 pm

so i didnt help then :?:

i donated the v8 engine and box :roll:

i was coming to help, BUT i have a business to run and only have 1 employee at the moment so cannot leave him to run/man the yard on his own, and thats for saftey reasons above most others, i was intent on coming to the build and would have come but sheffeild isnt exactly local is it :?:

anyone who knows me on here knows i turn up to the meets, i mean ffs, i lent luke my own van in 2005 so he could come to the 40 years of transit event at the ford plant :!: