Well it’s improving here too SDU. It was -6c when i got up it’s up to a balmy - 4c now.It will be up to 6c and maybe even 9c by tuesday and rain so something to look forward to.Rain shifts snow quicker than owt ( note the yorkshire accent at the end)
Strewth! Just looking at that white stuff makes me cold.
Here’s something to warm us all up, a 19 litre Cummins.
@buzzer reckon it’s probably an 89, I didn’t know Buntines had anything other than Macks.
SDU reckon even an G89 would huff & puff if that was fully freighted, Buzzer
Yes, and well after my time, so I can’t help with that question. 
Loaded legally it would only be about 50 ton, so an 89 should cope, weren’t they 290hp?
I can’t imagine Spardo or any of his codefendants overloading. 
They’re only single deck crates too.
I think the 89s were around 330 but no doubt i will be wrong.Weren’t the G88s the ones with the forward set axles or am i wrong again?
Yes Ramone, I think you’re right. The 89s were approx 330. But that has an early F88 grille. G referred to the set forward axles and this is clearly an F88, not a G88. It probably had the original 240 lump.
F88s were 290 and F89s 330, that was what I had at White Trux and all of them were LHD. Is that one LHD, I can’t tell?
We couldn’t overload at Buntine’s, unless we were always overloaded, because we had 3 40 foot single deck stock crates and they were always full. How would we know though, there were no weighbridges or police and certainly not ministery men on the road. Not even a logbook and wouldn’t have done much good if we had because nobody told me what the hours restrictions, if any, were. The only time we behaved due to the law was over the border into WA we parked at the end of a very long street in Kunanurra to walk up it to the pub. Could easily have taken the wagons, the street was very wide with plenty of room to park and turn, but we never ventured up it.
We were talking about Dafs earlier, I’ve just been reminded of the rubbish the Air Force had.
They were about 240hp, with a six speed 'box. They literally could not pull a loaded triaxle tanker up hill. They ended up being restricted to base, with on road duties using the replacement Cummins powered T2670s.
I couldn’t find a military livered one, but they were never intended for front line (off road) duty so were the same as the civvy version. I don’t recall if the military bought the sleeper version or day cab.
The army also had the S2670, definitely with a sleeper.
Both were honest workers for the military and in civvy street, with their Cummins Big Cam 350, RT14509 and Rockwell combination. The bonneted S Lines had a particularly large and comfortable cab.
Definitely not LHD.
I could be wrong about Australia then, but my information was that they never made 89s with RHD, so maybe that is an 88
We had 88s and 89s, I never saw either in LHD.
Must have made them specially for the Aus market, or built them there then, a bit like the B61 Macks that were exported back from Oz to Britain long ago and operated by P & S Contracts of Rotherham. I think they had both L and R though. From memory they were painted orange and had ‘King Of The Road’ emblazoned in red on the bumpers.
Volvo had a factory in Wacol (Brisbane), I imagine our 89s were local products.
Mack were also built/assembled just up Ipswich Rd, at Darra.
Ironically, with the takeover by Volvo, they have both ended up in the same complex which builds, engineers, services and sells new, used vehicles and spare parts. It is a one stop shop for everything Mack and Volvo.
