Popular Post Brocky Posted January 31 Popular Post Share Posted January 31 With your interest in Australia after Mrs Mack Paul's Australia day post I created a Flicker account to share with you my pictures taken in August of 2015 when I went down on the ATHS Down Under Tour. Our travel agent and tour director was Stephanie Vanatta, ATHS past president John Vanatta's daughter, as a result we had many experiences at regular tourist sites as well as their National Truck Show and several private collections. This first batch is of some of our tourist scenes. We flew into Sydney and spent the first day there wwhen I took some pictures from the roof of our hotel. We then flew to Ayers Rock which is a large 5 mile by 15 mile sized rock standing out of the desert floor with an Aboriginal sacred ground background. Later in the week we took a bus tour down the eastern mountains and coast visiting a zoo and a mini sugar mill. I was surprised at the amount of sugar cane farming in this area and our wonderful bus driver knew of this mill in the McKay area that had a mini mill in front open to the public. Then our final bus tour was west from Melbourne on the south coast. I will post about three more albums of trucks: the Alice Springs national show, the Tony Champion Mack collection, and the 4 private collections we visited in the Melbourne area. 5 1 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Nice, thank you. I remember when you went there, those are some great pictures. That Ayers rock is something else! 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568270 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 1 Author Share Posted February 1 3 hours ago, other dog said: Nice, thank you. I remember when you went there, those are some great pictures. That Ayers rock is something else! Thank you, I had posted a lot of them on the old Just Old Trucks website after I got home, BUT that site and its content is long gone.. 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568293 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Wonder if everyone realizes you need to click on the picture to see them all. Took me a few seconds to remember Other Dog posting pictures like that. 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brocky Posted February 1 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 1 (edited) The whole main purpose of the ATHS Down Under Tour was to attend the Truckie's Reunion at the Truckie's Haul of Fame in Alice Springs NT AU. This event happens every 5 years and includes the Kenworth of AU museum and the Ghan Railroad (which runs north and south from Melbourne to Darwin) museum. There were about 1000 trucks on display plus all of them in the building and sheds are there permanently. They also had a big boneyard which was part of the whole display. The picture of Diamond T "Bertha" is one of the first road trains and that pile of drums are on the second trailer. The Saturday parade was on the main road from town to the museum area with traffic going the other way and gaps in the parade to let traffic clear. We were at the parade for 4 hours and did not see it all as the women were getting tired and hungry!! Edited February 1 by Brocky 3 1 2 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568296 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Some fine looking units there, looks like a lot of Diamond T's, they're just sharp looking trucks! 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Brocky Posted February 2 Author Popular Post Share Posted February 2 From Alice Springs we flew to Cairns where we took a boat out to a huge raft anchored on the Great Barrier Reef. There we rode in glass bottom boats, and snorkeled, to view the colorful reef and fish. This started our bus trip down the coast, the pictures of which are in the first batch, With a stop in Townsville QLD at the Brown and Hurley Kenworth dealership where they served us Morning Tea. The bus tour ended in Rockhampton QLD at Tony Champion's MACK dealership. There may have been a small sign which said Volvo Commercial Vehicles, BUT there were NO Volvos in sight!!!! Tony in the past had also been a Caterpillar dealer and the big white building was his Cat shop and now is his restoration building. The three roadtrains of trucks parked in front of it were just back from the Alice Springs show and not unloaded yet. The visit was scheduled for from 9 AM to 4 PM, BUT we never got out of there until almost 9 PM that evening!!! Tony had called in several friends and ATHS members to visit with us and then he put on a buffet dinner complete with an Aboriginal Dance group for entertainment. During the afternoon he had both the Holt and Cat tractors running. His display gallery building is humongous complete with Slim Dusty trucking songs playing on the sound system. The picture of two couples at the picnic table are of Tony (standing) and his daughter visiting with ATHS past president John Vanatta and his wife Carolyn. Some of you may have met Tony a few years ago when he was up here for the ATCA Macungie show. Tony has imported several trucks from the States, which you might recognize, to increase his gallery along with many "one off" Australian Macks. The R-800 out on the "to do" line was recently featured in the ATCA Double Clutch magazine as the restoration is now complete. 1 1 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 (edited) The next day we flew to Melbourne and met the bus (with NO legroom!!!) and did a short sightseeing trip thru town and proceeded southeast to the Phillip Island Nature Park to observe the Penguins come out of the sea for their nightly nesting. Sunday was a busy day, we visited 4 private collections!!!! ATHS Member David Driver, owner of the Gray Line Tour franchise, picked us up at the hotel and we made our first stop at his collection. The Pontiac 6 on the rollback was his father's and uncle's first vehicle they started the bus business with in 1932. The 1947 Bedford by its self in a garage is the first new bus they bought after WW2. The next stop was at the late Ian Lee's shop and collection of EVERYTHING!!!! The first picture is is (l to r) bus owner David Driver, the late Ian lee, and ATHS Past president John Vanatta saying hello. Where we also received "Morning Tea" put on by the ladies with some unique sandwiches. The third stop I named "The boneyard in a sheep pasture" protected by a big a$$ed billy goat. The owner, in a single picture, had a lot of restore able and parts vehicles. The last stop was at, then ATHS chapter president's, Archie Baines facility. A large majority of the ATHS chapter showed up bringing their trucks and put on a BBQ style dinner. They also had their member recruitment panel van there so we could buy souvenir T shirts. His boneyard was also in a cow pasture. Edited February 2 by Brocky 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 2 Author Share Posted February 2 (edited) I think(?????) I have finally figured out Flicker!!!!! The last batch of pictures are finally almost in the right order!!!! The first three batches are basically in backwards order?? I hope you can figure that out and enjoy.. Brocky Edited February 2 by Brocky Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 I see a Burma Dodge, I have mentioned those before on here How did you get tob Alice Springs ? I would get rid of Mrs Mack (possibly) for one of those Paul 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Wow, great pictures! Never saw a Toyota bigger than a pickup before. The red and white IH looks good too but those Diamond T's are the cat's ass! Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Actually Tom, you have... Any time you see a Hino... 🍻 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568449 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Tom those Toyotas were pretty common here back in the day, not as common as aIH ACCO or Dodge, but were plentiful enough and survived quite well Paul 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568452 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 I have a '97 Tacoma reg cab 4X4, 2.7litre 5 spd.. does that count ? Ive had it for 24 years... 😁🍻 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 The "Princess" was built by the late Ian Lee, who liked to name his bigger projects. Here are the spec placards displayed with the truck in Alice Springs: 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568469 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Also my feeble mind says that I saw an article somewhere (??) with finished pictures of the tilt nosed B model pick up which was being built for the same man(??) who owned the mostly finished B model in the shop and was painted the same color??? Any of you Aussies please feel free to correct me.. Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568470 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 Paul, Yes I remember there bring a discussion about the Burma Dodges on one of these websites and had posted these pictures there. here is another picture of the engine compartment. 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568471 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted February 3 Author Share Posted February 3 (edited) 18 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said: How did you get tob Alice Springs ? We flew from Sydney to Ayers Rock and were met by a bus. The hotel took us to an evening sunset view of the Rock and served a buffet dinner. Where we froze our butts off!!! The next morning our bus took us to the sunrise viewing area and around the Rock to caves with Aboriginal sacred markings in them. This is where we met the couple with the red KW who were on their way to Alice Springs. We went east on Hwy 4, stopping at a "self contained" cattle station (ranch for us) for lunch. They had a grocery store, fuel pumps, restaurant, laundry, diesel power generating building, apartment complex for the help, and an air strip. During lunch the lady who operated the station told us they had 20,000 over 1 million acres of land to run 4000 head of cattle and that they used water trucks to draw the cattle into corrals. We then went north on the Sturart Hwy (A97) to Alice Springs stopping a a truck stop for a leg stretcher. Here is Slim Dusty's description of Ayrers Rock: Edited February 3 by Brocky Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568506 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 17 hours ago, Joey Mack said: Actually Tom, you have... Any time you see a Hino... 🍻 Oh Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568510 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 17 hours ago, Brocky said: Also my feeble mind says that I saw an article somewhere (??) with finished pictures of the tilt nosed B model pick up which was being built for the same man(??) who owned the mostly finished B model in the shop and was painted the same color??? Any of you Aussies please feel free to correct me.. My uncle sent me these a while ago, he had seen it at a hot rod show 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568523 Share on other sites More sharing options...
1958 F.W.D. Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 AWESOME PICTURES, BROCKY!!! I have to admit that the Aussie Valueliners and Superliners make me moist............ 1 1 Quote TWO STROKES ARE FOR GARDEN TOOLS Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/75102-australian-pictures/#findComment-568527 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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