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From memory Prospect SA was the place to register your trucks at....cheaper rego than NSW and no questions asked.


99 out of a 100 "foreign trucks" were registered at an accountants place of business at :- 1,Sandstone Avenue,Naracoorte,South Australia.
You needed to be registered in S.A. as a business and have a minimum of $2 shares in that business.
Cheers.

YEP SAILOR V

I would like a dollar for every truck that had #1 Sandstone Avenue, Narracoorte, SA on the door. It was set up by some legal type fella and was real popular with all the Victorian trucking companies. Around the mid 70"s there was an investigation into the address and John L Synan was supposed to have blown the lid of the whole thing according to some of the newspaper reports.

Thanks for the great recollections there Gilly , that would have been one smart lookin banger in its days hey . I also remember a lot of trucks with 68 Adelaide rd. Mannum and King William rd. Goodwood S.A. written on them as well .
Cheers Rob

Here's the story grumpy.....

Ah, so that is the story. Maybe SA law was a bit slack in this this regard but the cheaper rego would have played a big part.

Isn't that amazing eh?
Thats it, the LPS 1418 is getting
"1 Sandstone Ave Narracoorte" on the door!
Thanks for the great history, you learn something every day eh..

Maybe " Phoenix Transport, 1 Sandstone Ave Narracoorte" as so many did.

This is how 1,Sandstone Avenue,Naracoorte looks to-day in Google Street View.

....you'd still get a few lorries out the front there sailor, with that nice parking bay strip out the front :....just ideal for a gutter party

i seem to remember that if you stated your address as ''the highways of australia,'' there was some sort of concession as well

A bit more of the story ..... coupla names may be familiar!