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no rules have been broken! lots of fun had   they wanted it that bad  they got it. e bay would hve to do a lot to prove proxy bidding although this wasnt the case anyway.

whatever its called the seller knew nothing about it , the price was run up for the fun of it

sorry if mis understood sniping i am man enough to admit my mistakes. Your advice on bidding Mark appreciated  and very valid points. IN this case i personally know the seller so it wasnt as dangerous as it could have been  . The other person wanted goods that bad  so why not make em pay lots of fun .

serve them right for using snipes hee hee if they play dirty then so do i

* EDIT * In answer to the question "what made you laugh today ?"

people using snipes on e bay its so much fun deliberately running the price up for them, serve them right shouldnt be so sejfish. if they want it that bad then they will pay!

Looks nice too

nice looking - did the uk have an 845xl???

when did selectamatic range end? and how long was bottle opener db range in production and dates please

thanks powerrabbit, your post is very informative indeed

my appologies for getting dates wrong and huge thankyou to powerrabbit

Jan 1987 was the year...Richard was the guys name who owned her or may have been Rick  I will always remember it.. Dad was in the cab with me 

I expect Nige Ford will put me correct 

I am sure he said that two more were still running.. they made them as prototypes for the 115 didn't they ?

thats funny the red devil was a prototype in 1968 and subsequently went back to the factory and went back out to mr plaice in correct roadless livery. so it did not exist in 1987 unless it was a replica - soory for knowing the facts correctly.

at least its got a new block in it just the real things    use to do them daily

a grey chassis mf 7480 has not been included on the list? thought they were doing a grey chassis version

your welcome

thats dated wrong for 1972!, the range was still chocolate/white until 1975 then the david brown/case range took over with poer red/white or orange and white. they used kramer axles

Was the AP cab (cheaper option on 10 series, and standard on the 'H' variants) not made by Fritzmeier under licence to Ford?

the ap all purpose and lp low profile built by sekura not fritzmiere

good for you matey, without skilled engineers they wouldnt have a job! you could do there job - but they couldnt do yours

keep covering your arse mate, use reverse pyschology on them suggest ideas and let them take the glory in the knowledge you are one up on them.

master craftsman and magician

i bet its the same old story the planner is office based with no real practical knowledge of the job

at least that siorocco safety cab did what it was designed to do and stopped the tractor from rolling over completely

hope the fords are not a re hash of the recent ford 66/7600 models as they where woefully wrong! i wpersonally wouldnt give either of them shelf space

its great that fords biggest white elephant range has been done in model form for prosperity, they certainly kept the dealers busy

they told us at the training centre boreham house on an engine course to learn the engines well as we would be getting plenty of experience as the instructors admitted the engines were crap reliability wise and explained the porous block problem. i still have all the old service bulletins .

i doubt very much if marge models would have found a 7610 this age without a cross block, so that itself makes/adds realism to the model in a bigway.

i used to think that but we have a series 2 6610 and it has the x on the engine block and it is original,never touched

cross block definitely a replacement in this age of tractor i did plenty of them, later force 2 onwards had cross blocks as standard. the ribbed cross blocks were to help stop cavatation of the water jacket by providing more metal in the blocks. the cavatation within the water jackets caused bubbles which poppped against the in line bores. which after a while made the castings go porous. cross blocks and inhibotor filters were last ditch attempt to save the ford engines .

very good model even got a replacement short motor cross block in them, obviously the real thing copied had a porous block