Vintage Thing No.27 - Leyland Martian
I've passed this old wreck of a wrecker truck many times but the other Sunday I pulled up in the old Ale Grow (VT No. 23) and had a poke around. I don't think it has much of a future and is fairly well grown in. It lies engineless outside a scrapyard just off the A38 near Doublebois but the scrapyard is a very odd one. Make any enquiries about anything and you'll get a mouthful of abuse and whatever you're interested in will be destroyed before your eyes. I don't know how they stay in business. I'm not really into trucks but old ruins fascinate me and I did all the usual things that small boys do with military vehicles, which is scramble all over them and sit in the drivers seat and make the noises. I didn't know what it was but a little research reveals it to be a Leyland Martian, as immortalised by Dinky Toys. It was no surprise to find out that it was a British Army 6x6 truck but I was fascinated to learn that it would've had a 5.6 litre...