In Russia, the Foden tow truck with the Rolls-Royce diesel

An announcement with an exotic British car of the second half of the 1970s appeared on the classifides. The Foden truck from St. Petersburg is rare, even by the standards of Europe, and in Russia there is a full-wheel drive version with a 12-liter Rolls-Royce/Perkins engine with a 6×6 wheel formula and a crane-manipulator installation designed to evacuate heavy equipment.

Rolls-Royce: 60 years old

The seller claims that the real mileage of the truck is 40 thousand kilometers, and the exceptional condition is explained by conservation. There are spare bridges, a handout, a cabin, a Rolls-Royce engine, radiators and other components: for everything the owner asks for 600 thousand rubles, and another 5.5 million rubles for Foden 6×6. The state of the tow truck is described by the word “ideal.”

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A runaway search shows that in 2019 a truck with exactly the same numbers was already sold, and it looked different: since then the body was repainted, the interior was updated, and the mileage has decreased from 50 thousand miles (about 80 thousand kilometers). The declared carrying capacity of the crane arrow is 16 tons, and Foden is also able to pull the 60-ton trailer.

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It seems the basis for the tow truck was Foden FH70-an artillery tractor, which has been used in various armies of Europe since the 1970s. Under the hood of a 12.1-liter six-cylinder, in a row engine with a capacity of 294 horsepower, the gearbox is an 18-speed “mechanics”, the drive is complete, there are four blocking differentials.

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