Frankentruck lives!

One question,

How is the hospital going to keep this vehicle going when it’s a complete mish-mash of parts from different manufacturers, custom parts and so on?

Something like this then?
https://www.lro.com/blog/news/new-life-for-rusty-discoverys

Cheers

Bit of an update on this one - I got most of the main systems in, to the point where the engine would run off a jerry can, but couldn't seem to get it over the line. So last November it went to Paul Lumley down in Bridgewater, the idea being that he'd have it for a couple of months and move it all along a bit.

Then COVID.

So last week it came back, after a little longer than expected! Now it's a runner, all the wiring's been sorted, it moves under its own steam. Not quite ready for the road yet, but psychologically, a runner that needs to meet the regs is much easier to manage than a static exhibit that just looks like a vehicle.

Decided to cover it on my Dave Makes Stuff Youtube channel; there's an intro and overview here:

Aaaand cut. We're moving house, and I basically don't have scope to store this any more, or - if I'm honest - enthusiasm to finish it. I'd like to wind the project up, send the truck on to a good home and donate what remaining funds we have to the charity we hoped the truck would serve. A bit gutted, to be honest - there's about six years of intensive work in it and it's driveable, so not finishing it really hurts. That some of the work we subcontracted needs repeating (though the guys did it in good faith and I don't want to bad-mouth them here) doesn't make it any easier; I think if they'd have gotten it right then we'd probably have got the project over the line.

So... it's here in Derby. If you're seriously interested in it, please let me know. I appreciate that I won't get anything like what it's cost me, but to be able to finish the project by making a donation would be some consolation for the time lost.