Our 'Self-propelled Pump'

  Got out to a show in September and was parked next to a Zil-131 which is a 6x6 fire truck used during the cold war in Soviet states. Famously used in Chernobyl after the nuclear accident to contain the fires.  It was mentioned that all we needed between the Zil and the Goddess was an iron curtain. Two sisters in arms from different sides of the cold war. 

  Just before a big run I was checking the tyre pressures and couldn't get any air in the nearside rear.  A quick run to Pecks, a agricultural distributor in Ramsey St Mary's got it sorted. I shall not repeat word for word what the mechanic said when he saw the split rims, but I don't think he liked them very much judging by the huffing and puffing to get the bugger off..