why we no like jap!

Seem to remember we had a war there too!!

Yes we did but the Shermans weren't fighting the Japanese there which was the whole point of your first post.

yes but this forum tends to lead eventually so far of the track we cant find our way home

Well cribpointowmater, you might have point there...in the land of the long white cwoud : er that's cloud in English when GM wanted to replace the Bedford they turned to Isuzu and launched them with Bedford badges, then called them Bedford by Isuzu, then got really brave and finally just called them Isuzu.

This was done so as not to offend ex servicemen BUT then many Mercs & Fiats were sold to ex Digs in the 50's, 60's & 70's who remembered them as much better trucks than the allied vehicles they had in the Western Desert or Italy during WW2.

In fact my grandfather risked the possibility of a booby trap to start an abandoned Italian Fiat to drive it from Tunisia back to Egypt rather than drive a Chev or Beddy...

As for the Jap trucks - in NZ plenty of blokes used them to get a start in the transport business, not the fastest, lightest or flashest, but extremely reliable and cheap to run and buy...

i think the jap trucks are hear too stay, they have seemed too have dominated our ridgid market for the last 30 or so years....

ok so heres a pic of my little japanese truck going for a piggyback ride cause the motor is dead,only did 980,000 before it let go,blew up in the prime of its life http://i815.photobucket.com/albums/zz71/cribpointtowing/frontyardblitz004.jpg?t=1260523536

Nearly made the million ks, not a bad innings for a city truck. I reckon that motor would have been on the way out and drinking oil the last 200,000 of them.

i know a few fleet operators, that would be happy to get 980,000ks out of there trucks, before the engine needed major surgery

Gday CPT

I thought this pic might appeal to you

'towing', 'Japanese', see where I'm coming from ??
and its Air-Cooled too.



Cheers
RS

Why is the rope lying slack on the ground and the driver of the Honda looking really worried?

Why is the rope lying slack on the ground and the driver of the Honda looking really worried?

Because he has just bump started the AEC and is concerned about getting flattened ?

Cheers
RS