gstefos2000
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Following my Rover project
Greek S1 tc (Long project)
This is my non Rover passion.
My long involvement in automotive restorations and modifications started with my father’s 1954 Ford Anglia 100E when I was still a child. My grandfather had some lories and a pre ww2 Buick that I never saw. Having a parent as a teacher is very useful especially when he has always right, but it took me ages to stand over his shadow as a mechanic. I first became an electrician, a territory that was not so familiar to him. My first love was a military Fordson W.O.T.2 which was abandoned in a field. As a high school student, I needed his support but I couldn’t persuade him for the necessity to restore it. It remained an unfulfilled dream.
Years later when I was studying to become mechanical engineer, I bought my first Dodge M37 (the closest thing to the W.O.T. I could find), with the intention to build a multipurpose agricultural truck. It is now highly modified, powered by a low rev and high completion 4cyl diesel Mercedes OM314. Among others its brake system is improved and there is a P.T.O. shaft present. It is also obvious that it lacks style.
When most mechanical problems were solved I tried to improve the look of it. Anyway, I failed to get license for a limited production. This was my last and only attempt to correlate job and hobby. From that point I decided to build things only for my pleasure.
This is me driving through Pindos mountains.
Diesel M37 was reliable and fun to drive, even in the hardest conditions. As the years went by, originality became an issue too. So when the Greek army started to sell off all M-series trucks, I bought a top condition gasser, loaded with all possible goodies.
The preceded M151 belongs to a friend.
Later I and my family started to attend some local events (river parties). It was obvious that we needed something bigger to use as a shelter for kids while crossing into the wild.
This is a 1951 M35, converted from gasser to diesel by the Greek army.
At the same time I came across a V17A MTQ, presumed to be the only one still existing in Europe. It was complete and its stuck engine needed only a new liner and piston. (And an overhaul of brake system, fuel system, electric …….etc) Who could resist letting it join the bunch? Now it is fully operational.
Greek S1 tc (Long project)
This is my non Rover passion.
My long involvement in automotive restorations and modifications started with my father’s 1954 Ford Anglia 100E when I was still a child. My grandfather had some lories and a pre ww2 Buick that I never saw. Having a parent as a teacher is very useful especially when he has always right, but it took me ages to stand over his shadow as a mechanic. I first became an electrician, a territory that was not so familiar to him. My first love was a military Fordson W.O.T.2 which was abandoned in a field. As a high school student, I needed his support but I couldn’t persuade him for the necessity to restore it. It remained an unfulfilled dream.
Years later when I was studying to become mechanical engineer, I bought my first Dodge M37 (the closest thing to the W.O.T. I could find), with the intention to build a multipurpose agricultural truck. It is now highly modified, powered by a low rev and high completion 4cyl diesel Mercedes OM314. Among others its brake system is improved and there is a P.T.O. shaft present. It is also obvious that it lacks style.
When most mechanical problems were solved I tried to improve the look of it. Anyway, I failed to get license for a limited production. This was my last and only attempt to correlate job and hobby. From that point I decided to build things only for my pleasure.
This is me driving through Pindos mountains.
Diesel M37 was reliable and fun to drive, even in the hardest conditions. As the years went by, originality became an issue too. So when the Greek army started to sell off all M-series trucks, I bought a top condition gasser, loaded with all possible goodies.
The preceded M151 belongs to a friend.
Later I and my family started to attend some local events (river parties). It was obvious that we needed something bigger to use as a shelter for kids while crossing into the wild.
This is a 1951 M35, converted from gasser to diesel by the Greek army.
At the same time I came across a V17A MTQ, presumed to be the only one still existing in Europe. It was complete and its stuck engine needed only a new liner and piston. (And an overhaul of brake system, fuel system, electric …….etc) Who could resist letting it join the bunch? Now it is fully operational.
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