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Our Aussie supply is 91, 95 & 98 Octane. I always used to buy 91. Then I was encouraged to buy the E10 which had some bio fuel. Within 6 months our Toyota V6 Prado would not start, it was choking. I called the Toyota service manager, he asked are you filling up with E10, yes. He told me go buy 98 and put as much as possible into tank and some injector cleaner and then try start motor. He said if you get it to run it was cough and sputter but let it run so new fuel and cleaner can get into the injectors. He advised me, never use the E10 because it clogs up the injectors and in time will damage the fuel system - big $'s to repair. It worked. 98 has been the fuel ever since and never any issues. Then my local BBQ LPG supplier told me he always filled his cars with 98. His work Ford Falcon ute from new had 750,000 klms, ran like new, oil regular changes oil was near clean, no smoke out the exhaust. Plus more power, no valve pinging under load and better economy than 91 & 95. My daughters filled their little 1100 Toyota with 91, under load it pinged like a sick piano. I put 98 in and some additive, it hummed like a canary and it pulled real hard up hill, and more distance. Many years ago over hear we had Standard and Super, I dont know what the Octane was in each grade. I do recall that with Standard our 6 cyl Holden (US Chev blue/grey motors) would ping under load especially uphill. Same with dad's Inter R190's, with Super the pull and performance under load was far better than Standard. And with a high load fronting a head wind they would top gear easily. Not so with Standard fuel.

In Australia we have preferential and compulsory voting, both at our National and State elections. The preferential system is the worst possible election voting system. like the US it is realistic to say the founding fathers never intended for our govts to be controlled by parties, especially as they have cemented their control. The way the Australian Labour Party has structured the electorate, its immigration intake and the fake Teals and Greens, being like subsidiary companies, ensures that Labour has a front row seat to win many elections to come, National and State. Sadly our people have been conned and the effects are coming.

Maybe economics and market forces will level out the oil price, quite feasible for the Venezuelan oil sell prices to ease down to the discounted Russian offers. In turn this will reduce Russian oil revenues and that may add to the Russian economy woos. There are many more opportunities for India to keep close to USA as India grows its economy and progressively replaces a multitude of China made products. Russia is a minor market, smaller than the California economy. The Indian NSA, Ajit Doval was the key operative in the TRUST agreement, I doubt he will allow that to be damaged or compromised. There is another huge oil reserve next to Venezula, that is Guyana. No one mentions this sleeper! It too can supply India. There is another key development relating to the above. The Panama High Court has decided that the 2 ports ownership/leaseholds held by the Hutchinson Group from Hong Kong (effectively controlled by the CCP since the HK hand back by the UK) at either end of the Panama Canal are unconstitutional. The Panama govt has handed the lease/rights for the 2 Panama ports to Maersk of Denmark. Maersk is no 2 in world container shipping. Maersk separated its oil and gas operations, but still Danish controlled. Maersk oil is exploring for oil in Suriname, which just happens to be next to Guyana. I have not seen any objection from the US administration about the Panama ports being granted to Maersk. Or did the US administration encourage this granting to Maersk? Surely this makes for smooth uninterrupted sailing of oil ships from Venezula (and Guyana and Suriname) through the Panama Canal and onto Indian refineries. Greenland and Denmark!!!!!!!! And Maersk, Panama and oil to India!!!!! Just thinking. Maersk have major operations in India and also shipping services for oil.

Don't forget the TRUST deal signed Jan 2025 - USA and India, maybe this was part of the plan! India has been buying about 35% of Russian oil production and China buys 47%.

Not a bad tongue, but a dangerous ... trap 😋

The Mack B model door lock and the International R model door locks, later 1963 type and thereafter with the push button external door handles, are identical. I had a 1965 R-200 and B model - 615 whilst both next to each other, I noticed that the 2 locks were the same. I did a bit research and it confirmed that the Inter and Mack B model locks came from the same door lock supplier. Have a close look at the attached pictures and you will see the locks are the same. The red R 190 with the blue lines was a fully imported truck into Australia from USA so you can see the same locks. So try find an International dealer they may likely have NOStock. And those original Inter comfo-vision cabs were fitted to the smaller pick up Inter's such as 110, 120 & 130 etc.

He certainly has an amazing collection. Every truck, trailer etc that they restore etc is perfection plus. Tony and Bernie and their team are prefectionists.

Are the hood sides aluminium like the original hood sides?

H67, the cross member under the front pulley looks like a adapted railway line, or does it happen to look a railway line?

H67, try contacting the race horse clubs or the race courses where their horse ran. Most often these clubs have a big history of material going back many decades. You could be surprised what treasures you might find. Good luck with your research.

Thank you for great video. The blue Mack LTL with the E9-500-V8 is the ultimate 👋👌 And the location is picture perfect.

Last Saturday I was meeting with a few guys at the workshop of one of them. I took a bottle of Grappa made by the original distiller located at the bridge over the river in Bassano Nth Italy. We gently reduced 3/4 from the bottle, some added to black espresso coffee and then neat. One guy was from UK on a 1 week tour of a renter 1250 BMW bike, after he was happy and very warm inside, he headed off the Phillip Island for the moto GP.

Paul that steak is so big it had to walk onto the plate 😂 I went to New Zealand about 30 years back, went to a country town pub for dinner. The rib-eye covered the whole plate and was thick, I asked for medium-well done, it was cooked to perfection, tender and juicy. It took me a while to finish it, a few beers to wash it down and I was full as a NZ gumboot.

By coincidence yesterday I met a guy who has been involved at a top level in Western defence and aviation industries. By chance he started talking about Kamala and said (these are my words restating what he said, I cant repeat verbatum 🙄) that she spent a lot of time searching for dropped pencils under the desk of a certain politician and others. We have the same here in Australia with one of our state leaders. I wonder if these types are chosen because they will be mere puppets and can act long enough to bluff the poor souls that cannot open their eyes and ears.

Does anyone remember the Godfather part 1, early scene during the daughter's wedding party? The scene was Sony's wife was discussing with a bunch of wives the sizes of their husband's old fella. Kamala's face gesture and positions of her hands made me think of the Godfather movie scene. Maybe that is what she was really referring to ...... She can't be serious!