What's holding up the bullbar are 5 x 3/4 bolts, but not for long, as it will be coming off today.
Finally tracked down a bloke who had it in the 80's, and he was using it as a Stud Stock transporter with a custom built body on it. He said it had done a lot of miles, as it had been worked hard before he got it, and he ran it on the Hume running stock between Albury/Sydney/Melbourne and other destinations. It runs a Leyland 375 with an 80Kph diff which he fitted after he bought it to replace the original slow diff.
He bought the truck off a bloke called Bob Hazelwood, now deceased, but I know his son, so maybe more info can be found when I manage to contact him.
Cab was rotten, so he did a transplant with a cab off a short wheelbase Leyland tow truck, and he says the cab was the purple that shows. The name on the Towy was "Wagga Road Smash Repairs" and that was owned by Toole's Motors in Wagga Rd Albury. This now makes sense, as I can make out some of the letters on the passenger side door, and I can now see where the words are going.
There is still a bit of confusion about the red, because the red is between the purple and white, as he said they painted the cab white with green guards ( over purple ), the same as the BP trucks that were painted by the same bloke who painted this cab. Probably had some paint left over!
More as it comes to hand.
Ian
