Russell's Fully Restored 1974 Bedford TK
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- Опубліковано 13 вер 2024
- 1974 Bedford TK
While attending the A1 Wokingham Charity Classic Car Show (drone footage here: • A1 Wokingham | 2024 Ca... ) I caught up with Russell and John who restored Russell’s 1974 Bedford TK to the highest of standards!
Hi from Sydney, Australia. Your TK Bedford resto' looks fantastic.
My dad's family had a fleet of the prior "s" series big Bedford's for their wool scouring & carbonizing business out near the airport. However, we only had a couple of the big TK cab chassis fitted with giant tray backs for wool bale loads. I'm now almost 69 yrs old and always thought that when GM USA sent guys from GM USA & Canada to breath some fresh blood & life into Vauxhall & Bedford, they did a good job as they near copied the 1958 GM/Chev cab over trucks, but with the TK Bedford's gave them a bigger windscreen and the flip forward cabin for ease of servicing making the Bedford's a better truck. GM Holden, Australia built heaps of these TK Bedford's here, initially as CKD kits (completely knocked down) shipped out from the UK, then later we built the engines and pressed all the bodies here, some of the Aussie fitted engines were bigger. Amazingly you still see the odd random example going about their duties as a truck from time to time.
As a kid in the 1960's British toymakers Dinky-Hornby-Meccano made a "fleet" of TK Bedford's, I bought one of each as I thought they looked great, I still have them all in a glass cabinet, the other UK truck that I thought looked modern for the time and was also practical with a flip forward cab were the "ergo" Cab Leyland's, Albions, & AEC's. Dinky toys made just one of those too a quad steer Leyland Octopus tipper even with a flip forward cabin, and interestingly Dinky Toys painted a Bedford TK tipper to match in the same color scheme which I thought was also good thinking too, as kids may buy the color matching set of two, just as I did. Back when the Brits could be proud of the mechanical & vehicle products they made, both the real full-size trucks and the toys for children.
Very cool
absolutely stunning choice of restoration lorry - so unusual and equally stunning level of restoration quality. What a fantastic result. Wokingham is just down the road from me I remember there was a scrap yard where St Ann’s Manor hotel is now and one down Terrace Rd towards Binfield if I remember correctly - I used both back in the late 70s for parts for my old Cortina
Drove the tk in 80’s then had tl in 90’s ,Bedford’s were everywhere back then!
That is beautiful, superb job. I used to drive T K s many years ago around Birmingham.
Boy That’s A Very Nice Bedford 👍🏻💪🏻🇬🇧
A nice white pinstripe around the outer edge of the wheels would look nice. Stunning, well done you guys, proper motor.
Wow nice restoration, I drove a TK back in the 80s and there is not much room in the cab.
Do old lorry’s and the like qualify for historic vehicle status like cars and bikes and become tax and mot free ? If so surely something like this would be a good proposition for garages etc
Yes that can be registered as historic