Guys, thanks for the info. First I am bit slow to respond as I am not getting auto alerts of replies to my e mail address but I can sort that I am sure.
Originally, I was selling this for my father as he had some care issues for my mother who had a stroke. This is now not an issue and so he has asked me to keep it and restore it to its former glory. We did have a little fun in it about 1983/4 when we bought it from a chap called Tony Mansell. Tony was a founding member of the Shropshire and Border Counties MVCH with my father and had bought it in about 1980 from Pounds. Back then, any armoured WW2 vehicle was a rare beast in private ownership, but a tracked carrier was golddust. Tony made a very hasty restoration and when we bought it it was just about runing but not very well. The reason she is on a 1980 registration is that he road registered it back then. I then rebuilt the top end, grinding all the valves in on my fathers ValveMaster machine. I was 21 and did it in my holidays from University. What a job, it took for ever but it sounded really good after. Anyway, with moving away from home and wife and kids the Carrier got neglected and thats pretty much where we are right now. Dad is really keen that we keep it, so thats the project now....get it done correctly. I cannot believe that we have had it for 27 years, but our Jeep we have had since 1952 so I guess the Carrier is relative new comer!
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22-05-10, 21:58
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