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 Yet another trip out for the good old ERF chassis this time the 64G short
wheelbase model exchanging its earth dumper tipper back for a cement tipper.
Nice features on this one were the swing out tailboard that opens when you tip
the rear body and the opening filler caps.There are two versions of the model, on early ones the filler caps were 'cup
oilers' from a bicycle wheel hub. These were found to be expensive and were
eventually replaced with the red plastic items shown on the left below. My
'cup-oiler' version was missing the lids. I found a vintage car component
website which can supply these but as it would cost me £10 I decided against it. I eventually found a very scruffy
model on eBay at a very low price that still had its lids intact. After buying
it I had an anxious few minutes getting them out - they are just a push fit, but
I succeeded and put them in to the model below. Its probably better using
contemporary ones as they are obviously old like the model, new ones would have
looked too shiny and wrong. The later model with plastic caps tends to get a
small premium. |