Australia then and now

Here we go, all is in trucknet if you look hard enough.

Search the above link to post 37 and there we have the answer with photographs. They moved the air stack to the nearside and remounted the air filter under the rear near side corner of the cab, freeing up sufficient space on the right hand side of the tilted over engine to thread a gear linkage through.

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Good find !

Not only a good find: I happen to know Keith Mills and he really knows his stuff. His information will be reliable :wink:

Production finished in 2006, but there aren’t many of the final generation around. Prices seem to start at au$50,000 increasing to stupid money. At the end of the day it’s only worth what someone is prepared to pay.
How much are they asking and is it badged Holden or Vauxhall?

Winter has arrived, only got to 23⁰C today. :cold_face:

Almost a dozen of them here. Holden for sale | eBay
There looks to be a specialist in Chester with a few other interesting Aus and other vehicles.
£60k Ford Escort !

Summer has arrived, it’s a roaring 23 deg C today :hot_face:

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£7500 the seĺler states its very rare.It sounds like the owner’s passed away and they are selling it on.I think Vauxhall not sure

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Hard to believ this is fifty-five years ago.

Only a cursory nod to safety of drivers, marshals and spectators.

Your link

… was actually posted by nz_jamie (who knew a thing or two, he’s “TheThunderguts” on youtube). @les_sylphides

Ever present in all of our minds is the Big Question: how I overtake two 155T extra wide loads while driving an 80T roadtrain?

Well now you know.

Brilliant, still a bit of a squeeze though. :grinning_face:
I don’t remember overtaking anything, but then we didn’t have CBs in those days. :rofl:

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Did you notice the dual purpose highway/runway?
The road can be closed for the flying doctors, in case of emergency.

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Is that the bit that I thought was a pedestrian crossing? I thought it was a bit strange in the middle of a desert. :thinking:

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That’s what I thought, but then again if you’ve got your eye in…

Only when it was pointed did I realise.

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I can only recall three, one on the Eyre between Port Augusta and Perth, another on the Stuart between Darwin and Port Augusta, finally this one may be a figment of my imagination, I think there is one on the Great Northern.

I don’t know if they are currently maintained, but Czechoslovakia certainly had sections of road designed to be used as airstrips if needed.
I seem to remember that they had a concrete apron in front of hanger type building protected by by an earth berm, that was used as a parking area.