Had one. 8V screamer. 300 horses, pulled like a train. Best cab out there in it's day. Dropped 20 ton of mackerel on the M5 while driving one. e bugger!
Great engine and great truck,it was the fuel consumption that killed them here,in America where fuel was cheap they were brilliant and very clean until someone tinkered with the fueling and then they could belch smoke out with the best of them but overall those engines were near indestructible if treated right and NOT allowed to over speed on downhill roads.
Detroit 2 stroke V8 diesel has a sound sound of its own. The V6 and the V12 and V16’s sound similar because of what I call the multiples of 3, whereas the V8 has multiples of 4 so it sounds to me like a big 4 cylinder motorcycle from the 1970’ and 80’s, but what a great sound.
I used drive a v8 Bedford t m reg number TYR 254 S for Jess b woodcock London E16 on container work for ace containers it went like fuck but it did like drinking lots of diesel lucky to 6 mpg now 72 years old like a old lorry bits of me are falling of good luck dangerous brian
