Turkish Tonka´s & Truck´s

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More Tonkas

This ones a Lebanese one

Then these three coming up Bolu mountain Look at the smoke from the leyland and the one on the right is a Austin or Morris turk made

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In Port of Mersin


Near Edirne

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Hi Guys

Great Tonka pics the truck on Bolu may well be a Fargo ,and a great pic of the tunnel at Biracek where the kids used to drop rocks on you as you came through the tunnel happy days

Roger Haywood

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Turkish Frigos

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There were lots of Tonkas that used to have a picture painted on the side of them like this :slight_smile: .

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Hi Mushroomman,
Sorry, my english is not good.
Die Tonka fahrer haben an den Bordwänden die Bilder ihrer Dörfe gemahlt.
Aber auch das gibt es nicht mehr, eigentlich gibt es keine Tonkas mehr in der Türkei, die fahren jetzt alle neue Fahrzeuge.
Die guten alten Zeiten sind vorbei, mit Bolu, Tahir usw… leider.

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Translation;
The Tonka drivers used to paint pictures of the villages that they came from on the side boards.
But they dont do it anymore, apparantly there arnt even any Tonkas in Turkey anymore, they’re all driving new trucks.
The good old days of Bolu, Tahir etc are gone…sadly.
GS

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GS OVERLAND:
Translation;
The Tonka drivers used to paint pictures of the villages that they came from on the side boards.
But they dont do it anymore, apparantly there arnt even any Tonkas in Turkey anymore, they’re all driving new trucks.
The good old days of Bolu, Tahir etc are gone…sadly.
GS

Danka schoen fur das Herr Smitt :laughing: .
I often thought that could be the reason as I remember seeing more of these Tonkas in the remote areas, especially between Ankara and The Black Sea Coast. A lot of the times you would see them loaded with people so they were probably used as the local bus service as well.
Strange isn’t it Gavin, when we were young we used to hate them and now we view them with affection.
No Tonkas in Turkey :open_mouth: eh lad it’s a different world today :laughing: .

Regards Steve.

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Nichts zu danken Herr Mushy.
It is funny eh !! they used to be like land crabs, and we used to struggle to pass them. Late at night the firey glow would come from the exhaust aswell as the tone…Imagine driving a Tonka !! no sleeper cab, AC, or other creature comforts like we had, sitting for days in queues the same as we did to exit Turkey for destinations East. I once saw an old long nose, daycab MAN Tonka in Dover believe it or not!! it had proper lights and tyres. I dont know how far he would have got once he got out of the docks.
Imagine being sentenced to drive this>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

or this, its even got UZUN ARAC on the back, maybe I should post it on the other thread aswell.

Ive got a cracking photo of a six wheeler, I will scan and post sometime soon.
GS

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Hi Klunk
look at this! same place, a few years later…

GS

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GS OVERLAND:
I once saw an old long nose, daycab MAN Tonka in Dover believe it or not!! it had proper lights and tyres. I dont know how far he would have got once he got out of the docks.

Now you wont believe this Gavin, I have been meaning to post this for the last two years but I thought that if I post it somebody might say "what a load of bulldust " or something like that.
One night in Dover Eastern Docks in the early 80’s I ALSO saw a red, long nose M.A.N. Turkish Tonka, six wheeler day cab with high sides and a tarp over the load. It was about February or March ( it was definitely not in the summer ) the two drivers were sleeping on the top of the load and they were parked up at the back of the lorry park against the sea wall.
Of course this truck caused quite a bit of attention from the other drivers and we asked one of The Penguins how long they had been there. He told us that they had arrived in the early evening and as they were carrying a full load of cow hides :unamused: H.M. Customs wanted to do a full search in the morning. I did see the two drivers who were all rugged up wearing old over coats and furry hats and they looked like the type that you often saw up in the Turkish mountains.
I felt really sorry for them, they looked very scruffy, tired, dirty unshaven, unwashed but then again I seem to remember that there were one or two Brit drivers like that in those days :laughing: .
Regards Steve.

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MAN-MANAS 520 HN original tonka made in Turkey in Europe


International Loadstar In Europe

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MAN made in Turkey

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GS OVERLAND:
apparantly there arnt even any Tonkas in Turkey anymore, they’re all driving new trucks.
The good old days of Bolu, Tahir etc are gone…sadly.
GS

correct apparently, one of mine was down in Marmaris 2 weeks back and he was disappointed how ‘civilised’ it’s all become, he even OVERTOOK a couple of coaches near Aydin :open_mouth: previously unthinkable of course :laughing:

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klunk/■■■■■■■■

Approaching the tunnel from the other direction,crossing the Euphrates River.

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Hi Guys
There is a website called wowturkey.com where orient mack got some photos from, its amazing.!! there are 100+ pages of Turk trucks old and new. You will all recognise alot of them from years gone by. Its all in Turkish though. Yok Problem!!
Happy searching.
Alah Korusun was a big firm and so was Mashallah. !Used to see their trucks all over Turkey and beyond. :unamused:
GS

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GS OVERLAND:
Hi Guys
There is a website called wowturkey.com where orient mack got some photos from, its amazing.!! there are 100+ pages of Turk trucks old and new. You will all recognise alot of them from years gone by. Its all in Turkish though. Yok Problem!!
Happy searching.
Alah Korusun was a big firm and so was Mashallah. !Used to see their trucks all over Turkey and beyond. :unamused:
GS

:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: . Pull the other one Gavin :laughing: . You will be telling me that GULE GULE had a depot in most of the towns next :laughing:
If you look at photo 13 on this page, the two red and white Bedfords, didn’t they have a depot in Nottingham :confused: .
Marshalla of Nottingham seems to ring a very old rusty bell :laughing: , maybe The Red Fox heard of them in days gone by.

Gule Gule :wink: .

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Alah Korusun was a big firm and so was Mashallah. !Used to see their trucks all over Turkey and beyond. :unamused:
GS
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:laughing: :laughing: :laughing: . Pull the other one Gavin :laughing: . You will be telling me that GULE GULE had a depot in most of the towns next :laughing:
Yeah thats right, they must have !, and their yards must have all been close to the edge of town !! most towns had a Gule Gule yard at each end of the town !! :laughing:
GS

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Talking of Turks in day cabs, used to see a few of them in Italy in old bonnetted Internationals or Macks, as you know the yank trucks have very narrow cabs so arbi used to have a hammock under the trailer, not a bad job in the summer, but can’t have been much fun in winter :cry:

They still make Tonkas in Turkey, that’s where Merc make the Axor, bit more modern than nailing an axle on the back of a D1000, but if you listen to the whinging about Axors on the UK Driver’s forum the Turks still know how to make a bad lorry :open_mouth: :laughing: