100 Green Goddess' for sale!!

[RT/10Dave]

Just stumbled across this advert... 100 Fully kitted Green Goddess Fire Trucks for sale at £1,750 + VAT

http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=372&O...

That's got to be a piece of history worth owning?

[JulesV]

Just the thing for Le Mans '08. Might take a couple of days to get there though.

[lowdrag]

Yes, but who needs a puny pump up water pistol any more?

[bob1179]

Can you drive them on a car license?

I'd love one. not sure what I'd do with it though, but why the hell not?

[tog]

One-make race championship? Move over Clio Cup, or get squirted!

[pauljc]

Forget those. It's got to be one of these when they are back in stock. Great for the school run.

http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=32&Ov...

[Gretchen]

What could be done to convert them?

I think they're awesome, spotted this one tucked up in a barn recently (no, it wasn't in Portugal).

[Forthright MC]

Gretchen said:

What could be done to convert them?

I think they're awesome, spotted this one tucked up in a barn recently (no, it wasn't in Portugal).

is that tucked up "in't village" somewhere then?

[SpeedyGonzales]

Gretchen said:

What could be done to convert them?

I think they're awesome, spotted this one tucked up in a barn recently (no, it wasn't in Portugal).

I wonder if i could convince one my parents to buy - to replace the X - trail

[restoman]

100 green goddesses standing by the wall,
100 green goddesses standing by the wall,
And if one green goddess should accidentally stall,
There'll be..............

[King Herald]

RT/10Dave said:

Just stumbled across this advert... 100 Fully kitted Green Goddess Fire Trucks for sale at £1,750 + VAT

http://www.witham-sv.com/infopage.php?ID=372&O...

That's got to be a piece of history worth owning?

Good grief, what will happen next time the firemen go on strike??

[jimbobs]

A friend of my in-laws has got one - in fact, I was driven to my wedding in it:





He thinks it's great - he takes it along to village fetes and the odd classic event to show it off. I think it only does about 4 miles to the gallon though, and has a max speed of about 35mph.

It was certainly fun turning up to the church in it with the siren going off!

[Dave_newcastle]

Can you drive one on a car licence??? Would love one but am sure it would be vetoed by the power at home.

[Dogwatch]

Some of them could be worth having for the plates alone if you can transfer them.

As for the puny water-pump comment above, these were never intended for putting out chimney fires, the original intention IIRC was that teams of these things would (hopefully) fight the devastating fires resulting from a nuclear bomb blast. Intended to run for days on end they are a pump on wheels, not a blues 'n twos (or bells and lights in the '50s) emergency response vehicle hence the apalling handling. The fact that they have survived while their civilian counterparts have mostly long gone to the scrapyard is probably due to HMG trying to get some use out of them somehow.