@ramone remember overstatement and dramatization is rife on that show.
I’m not up to the minute on costs, but a new bare long Cummins motor is in the region of $40,000.
Where Steve travels he wouldn’t want to be let down by an alternator or similar. It would be prudent to preemptively repace all accessories and the radiator. It would also be a good time to rerace (at minimum) the gearbox. Naturally a complete, new clutch would be fitted. No doubt other items, related and unrelated would be found in need of repair or replacement, that alone is an open ended cost. I would have thought that $100,00 would have pulled it up, but I couldn’t argue the cost with any confidence or authority.
How old was the episode? Very rough conversation is halve Aussies dollars to get quid Stirling.
That makes sense , like you say it’s made for tv entertainment.They keep repeating $160000 plus to replace the engine .I worked it out at about £80000 .The diffetence is you could probably buy more for your dollar than we could for our pound . I think it’s the latest series .Series 10 there’s a mercy hay run and a quick flash of either a F10 or a F12 twin headlight and i’m sure a Foden Alpha but it could have been a CF . I watch it to not take it too seriously , just for entertainment and some of it is very good and some not so good.An earlier series i remember there was a driver whos engine had blown and while it was getting replaced they gave him a CF Daf to load his trailers locally. Well his own motor which i think was a Kenworth you couldn’t see properly for the sun reflecting off the chrome. To say he wasn’t happy was an understatement.That CF did nothing for his ego on national tv whereas his own motor was an extension of his knob.Anyway he got his own back and off he went
Apart from historic wagons, I haven’t seen a Foden on the road here in donkeys, so it would’ve been a CF (of the DAF variety that is, not the other one).
Ha ha the one with nothing under the bonnet or the DAF ?
Any idea when that would’ve been? Looks like dirt (mud!) Road surface.
No idea but on solid tyres it must have been 10s to 20s but not sure.
The last time CF drove a truck.
Did all this stuff in primary school, but it’s still an interesting read.
https://oldhumehwy.transport.nsw.gov.au/old-hume-hwy-history.html
I was actually looking for a timeline of the Hume, to no avail.
It wasn’t actually named Hume until 1928. Joining various dots, it wouldn’t have been fully sealed until the late 1950s~early1960s. None of this helps dating the photo.
Talk us through this one SDU
I’m guessing not used on the road .Just remind me again why the Aussies stopped buying British. Mind it could have been worse F86 or a Mandator with a bus engine:grin:
That looks like a Leyland Super Mastiff. I briefly drove one as a rigid 24-tonner. Quite comfortable, six-speed synchro. I imagine the artic pictured is either a shunter, or it has been given a bigger lump; but if the payload is just pigeons, well carry on chaps!
Yeah it looks like a shunter. I wonder what the Super stood for , over to Bewick , but to be fair his set him up a base for bigger and better things.I had at one point a 290 GT Renault and i haven’t a clue what the GT stood for.
Definitely just a yard truck, it wouldn’t have an 80 tonne rating, the minimum for a B double. Stock trucks often alternate between B double and road train (<120 tonne). Note the lack of a numberplate, a sure giveaway that it never leaves the road.
Those crates are double deck cattle crates, pigs and sheep are moved in triple decks.
The Mastiff was one of those in the Bathgate series of Leylands with the ex-BMC G-cab. It came as a 16-tonne rigid, a 24-tonne three-axle rigid or as a 28-tonne light tractive unit. In 1980 they gave the G-cab a facelift with lots of black vinyl on the grille area and I suspect that the ‘Super’ was that facelift version.
He’s gone a bit shy this week, as he tends to do when proven wrong.
Maybe he’d prefer something originating a little further south.
Oh, hang on, he’d need Dennis to tarp it for him.
Hitlers revenge
Chook’s foot.