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12 years 1 month ago #74447 by ronhorse


The pride of our fleet, an ex-army KS6 re-engined with a 5 cylinder Gardner, matched to a 5 speed fuller, one cog for each cylinder

anything above the reasoning of a mongrel dog is a waste of time

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12 years 1 month ago #74448 by ronhorse


Although she wore the scars from battles with cattle she carried on without missing a beat, unknowing the fate that awaited her.

anything above the reasoning of a mongrel dog is a waste of time

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12 years 1 month ago #74449 by ronhorse


Due to inexperience the driver selected neutral to coast down a hill, never made it on a bend at the bottom, a perishable run with two drivers, Harry Harker, asleep on top of the load was killed, the driver unhurt, as seems to usually happens

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12 years 1 month ago #74450 by ronhorse

Ernie Warner and I picked it up a few days later and towed it back to Alice springs.

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12 years 1 month ago #74451 by ronhorse


here it is sitting in our yard, like a faithful old dog we could not have it put down, so sent it down to Adelaide to have the body,"buffed out" as swishy would say,
also it only had a couple of hundred thousand miles on it.

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12 years 1 month ago #74452 by ronhorse

Came back like new, the skinny kid is me, I drove it for a long time untill it finaly wore out, by this time it was finaly time to put her down, we put an obit in the paper!

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12 years 1 month ago #74453 by Loadstar
I think it was Detective talking about provenance, doesn't get much better than that, fantastic Ronhorse you are a wealth of experience. [smiley=beer.gif]

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12 years 1 month ago #74454 by BK
Great story and pics of a great old truck, thanks for that.

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12 years 1 month ago #74455 by Lang
Great story.

Lang

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12 years 1 month ago #74456 by Cams290
I am loving reading all the old stories and seeing the pics that are on this forum, thank god for the internet that these stories and pics can be shared.

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