This is a Glorious 1/2 Scale Foden Steam Truck
Added 2021-06-25 17:21:38 +0000 UTCDirect Link: https://youtu.be/PFKa8K9qZBQ
Isn't this wonderful?! As far as I know, this is the only one of its kind in the states, and the owner invited me down for a look at it!
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Ouch! By that measure I currently have THREE stationary engines! ALL Volvos!
GrayRaceCat
2021-07-12 04:25:14 +0000 UTCIn 2005, I was in rural Northamptonshire in England and drove by a couple of scale steam vehicles trundling along the road. My relatives thought that I was bonkers when I subsequently described the encounter, but now I know that I'm not crazy! (Well, not due to this particular event anyway.)
Peter Lawrence
2021-06-28 01:01:30 +0000 UTCThat is right!
2021-06-26 02:46:57 +0000 UTCTook me longer than I'd like to admit to make the connection that I knew who Tanner was. He has video of me hanging out the window of a Fiat 500 Abarth as we chased UP 844 through Eastern Oklahoma :)
2021-06-26 01:47:30 +0000 UTCThank you, it belongs over there really! And hey, if you get the alfa running, you will need a new stationary engine! 🤣
2021-06-25 20:15:48 +0000 UTCIt looks amazing. Seeing it on screen must’ve skewed my perspective as, like you mention, I’ve seen loads at my local steam rallies here in NW England. I really want a stationary engine to show but when I mentioned it to my wife she replied that I already had one…in my Alfa Romeo that hasn’t moved for 12 months. That hurt 😹
David Daley
2021-06-25 19:31:13 +0000 UTCRobert is a bit of a giant too, which makes me and the engine look miniature!
2021-06-25 19:23:03 +0000 UTCI can confirm it is half scale. 13' long roughly. They are great kits, they are commonplace on English rally fields nowadays.
2021-06-25 19:16:16 +0000 UTCSeems a lot smaller than 1/2 scale. My father did his apprenticeship as a boilermaker in the late ‘60s. Spent much of my childhood going to traction engine rallies with him. Would love one of these kits.
David Daley
2021-06-25 18:59:35 +0000 UTCSo, you need a small valve for your electric buggy. Problem solved!
Jorg Rademaker
2021-06-25 17:56:53 +0000 UTCI want to know how many times you tooted that horn
Evan Hartmann
2021-06-25 17:36:09 +0000 UTC
