Recent Foden Restoration


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Recent Foden Restoration

Post #1 by essexpete » Wed Jun 29, 2016 11:24 pm

Have any of you seen the latest from The Mayle team?

Looks and sounds good, I suppose it should with over 3000 man hrs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u40FHBpVTPU


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Re: Recent Foden Restoration

Post #2 by Mrsmackpaul » Thu Jun 30, 2016 2:39 pm

great job to blokes that did the resto on it

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Re: Recent Foden Restoration

Post #3 by essexpete » Sat Jul 02, 2016 12:35 am

Paul
Steve Mayle has several interesting clips on you tube along with son Johnny. Father and son appear to have a great working relationship as well.


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Re: Recent Foden Restoration

Post #4 by fryske » Tue Aug 04, 2020 3:05 pm

Steve and John are great guys -- note the garage language warning on the clips!


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Re: Recent Foden Restoration

Post #5 by fryske » Tue Aug 04, 2020 3:07 pm

John's trip in that Foden does show how far behind they were by this point though. A great chassis let down by a terrible drivers experience. The 12 speed box is such hard work compared to a contemporary Fuller.


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Re: Recent Foden Restoration

Post #6 by Jeremy Rowland » Tue Aug 04, 2020 9:04 pm

fryske wrote:John's trip in that Foden does show how far behind they were by this point though. A great chassis let down by a terrible drivers experience. The 12 speed box is such hard work compared to a contemporary Fuller.



Sadly we were already falling behind the competition on many fronts for various reasons but poor quality was one of them.

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