Hi mate

Hope you feel better soon.

Lol mate look I’m thinking you gotta go Hilux or transit. Yeah you can’t get everywhere on a transit especially if it’s muddy, but you can have a workshop in there. Like I say, throw some solar panels on the roof, a decent battery, inverter, you can have 2k of 240v easily. Also when it’s raining you can sit in it all have a cuppa. I know they are fuckin bland vehicles, but it is what you make it. 4wd transit might make you feel better about it? But I’ve only ever seen a couple

Yeah I know what your saying, I’m thinking the last decent pickup truck was a Hilux around twenty years ago. I’ve never had one but I’ve had mates who did and who really reckoned em. I’ve driven one on a farm I worked on, it was old and not road legal but it was an amazing farm motor. But yeah, the new ones are too wide imo. Like you, I fuckin hate it when I’m trying to get back from work and it’s school run, all the parents picking up their kids in pristine, huge trucks that they don’t even know how to drive!

But yeah, if you just want functionality I’d say grit your teeth and get a transit. An swb transit will get anywhere in a city, plus you can put a workshop in back. You might wanna tail lift being a mason, I dunno. But lithium leisure batteries are getting crazy cheap at the mo, put a 500w solar panel on roof and regulator charging lithium battery and you’ll run a 2kw inverter no prob. You’d prob get all the bits for under £500 and then it’s just a bit of wiring. I have a similar setup myself, except I live in it

Yeah that sounds like a pretty decent solution. I know someone who did something similar to a Volvo estate. Bit crazy though that we’ve got to modify old vehicles to get a suitable work motor - seems like a gap in the market. VW made some sensible size pickups back in the 80s - but like the jumbuck they are old now. I hate to say it, but you might do better with a transit or sprinter. It’s enclosed space but you’ve got room for tools n stuff.

Yeah, el Caminos look proper cool. TBH I thought my jumbuck looked pretty cool too. And it was really useful, at the time I was hauling a lot of wood and it drove just fine with a heavy load. I think it was maybe a 1.2 petrol engine iirc. They are pretty cheap if you can find them, I sold mine with 6 months MOT for about £500 . But yeah, parts are tricky, which isn’t great with a work vehicle

I used to have a proton jumbuck, really useful little pickup. But they’re hard to find in the UK and getting parts can be tricky.

I know it’s not cool to take the piss out of someone’s appearance - but the fucker really does look like some of his ancestors were potatoes.

You know it was the French revolution that popularised the guillotine as a means of dealing with wealthy elites?

But yeah I don’t see how Tesla is going to ever repair the damage to their image, unless they can kick musk out and that doesn’t seem likely.

Yeah, I mean who is their market now? Anyone who isn’t a nazi or ignorant isn’t going to want to be seen driving one. And I get the impression that right wing folks are more into fossil fuels.

Yeah I migrated when they did the API thing. It’s quieter here, but I kinda prefer it. Welcome mate