mrsmackpaul

Well Im gunna have to put that one in the Chrissy list for under the tree IH Australia was in huge amount of dept due to IH US making IH Australia buy a lot of machinery trucks tractors and earth moving gear and and all this was done on IH credit After IH US collapse IH Australia was left in venerable position but managed to trade out of dept in a few years amazing enough but I think the final nail in the coffin was once the supply of US sourced engines tractors etc were no longer going to be available it would no longer be viable to for IH Australia to operate IH AB to D line shared the same basic cab as Dodge AT4 and D5N series IH Geelong plant cast Chrysler engine blocks a lot of Aussie V8 Hemis have IH cast into the side dunno about the 6 cylinder Those smaller ACCO's only had the 345 V8 petrol for a long time so probably only go 10 MPG at the best compare that to the little Jap diesel trucks of the time 20 MPG or better and they ran for a lot longer to, even the Jap petrol ran for ever and used a lot less fuel The little Jap trucks caught the Australian truck market by surprise thats for sure Paul

Looking good to me but those inside nuts look to be on the wrong side of the rim or maybe its just my eyes are getting old dunno I would have thought there should be a lot more cone hanging out side the rim it looks like its on the side of the rime to me Paul

it's amazing how fiddly these little jobs can be and all of sudden a whole day is gone and well there just isnt much to look at for a days work LOL sounds like your still moving along ok they Paul

making progress thats more than a lot of us are doing LOL keep at it Paul

AHHHHH the simple life has returned LOL Paul

now thats a ute !!!!!!!!!!!!! very cool Paul

can tell its not a GM as you can still see the motor LOL

looks good now just gotta put it to work Paul

And for some interesting stuff, or at least I reckon it is, here is the very first AACO's ever made under testing for the Australian Army. The prototypes look a lot more like a Blitz than the production ones. Paul

Swishy isnt gunna be impressed with this LOL

was the same truck that came back from China I may have that wrong but I seem to recall a Scania came back from spending its working life in China and got restored Either way its as neat as a pin and it looks like it has a sleeper cab as well might only be for someone skinny though Paul

plenty of humps and hollows on his drive and lots of winding road heading down to Morwell that way good road heading home though If they Argosy is only made for Australia and NewZealand is KW the same I dont know are any COE trucks made in the US anymore Paul

It wouldnt surprise me at all Isuzu have been number 1 for a long time before them it was IH and before that I reckon its was Bedford but I doubt Bedofrd and IH combined went for 27 years well done Isuzu The IH would have been the ACCO in its hey day and Bedford was only any good because nothing much else was around Paul

but just because you might not think its helpful doesnt mean anyone else will think so and here lies the problem of doing anything like this to many people are to critical of what other people do so in the end no one will share anything because who would if someone else is only going to be critical and pick something apart just saying Paul

looking good wont be long now Paul

mate that would put a horn on a jelly fish gotta be pretty chuffed with the end result a side note with them pictures been on the side when you click on the picture it blows it up a bit and the screen goes all black ish around the picture on the bottom LHS of the picture in little writing it has written "full size" click on that it takes you to another screen but this time the picture is bigger again and its the right way up ??????????? go figger ?? so dunno what the go is there not enough mega bytes in brain for all of this truck turned out really good Paul

I received a message from Kevin KSC yesterday that he has complied all of the latest truck news to bring the thread up to speed on what is the latest in trucking news if he can get the go ahead to post So I guess Im wondering is there any news on this front as to can he have the available disc space or what ever is required in the high tech land of computers to put this information up and share with everyone ? Paul

thats a lot of tractor for the roller should pull it ok though Paul

that would have been a fairly rare truck down here with the butterfly bonnet (hood) almost all had a fibers glass tilt bonnet down here Paul

looks like your plan is all coming together ok very handy having a crane at hand sure would make life easier Paul

that will stop you picking your nose for a while LOL you blokes are to wild for me all my grinders have guards just call me girly man and I still have all my fingers and I never hear told you so from the Princess Paul

looks like the new toy is working out good for you Swish man when will it be time for you to jump back in the SAR ??? Paul