Southbound's Pix

prodrive wrote: Southbound-
I think there is a bit of history to go with that Atkinson cab that was at Ritchies?
FWIK, it is the second of the two twin steer bogie drive ex Shell NT Roadtrains- one got burnt, this is the other.
It had a 12V71 GM in it, and was bought by Frank Brandimarti from Geelong many years ago. He pulled it apart, and sold the engine to Russell Hovey.
Russell wanted to get a bigger donk in his Kenworth, as he was always a touch... heavy... shall we say. So the idea was he could get along at somewhere near normal truck speed, and not look like he had a hundred tons on board..
Anyway it didn't really work out, it ended up breaking a crankshaft (Russell told me it was caused by a crook harmonic balancer) and I don't know what happened to it then.
The twin steer chassis was sold with the cab at Ritchies too, I guess for scrap money. No idea where either that or the cab went, but hopefully the cab lives on as a kids cubby house or something like that.
But she would have had a few stories to tell from back in the day eh...Part of history gone.
Cheers
Rich

Thanks Richard, there was some comments posted on Feaces Book about this cabin and they agree with you.

Hi All
That Dodge ,(to me) looks to be still very good as a parts donor , as the drive train is enclosed and i'd be willing to bet, that the diff, gearbox and possibly the engine, (or parts of it), are still in pretty good nick

G'day Bitsa,
That Dodge has a couple of parts that could be used, but overall it's well past it.
It's just over the fence in my neighbours so it's yard art for me.

Cupla pix from Maffra Motor Museum, the current theme is classic racing cars.

And a car I saw at a recent car show.

1935-ish Dodge straight eight?

'34 Dodge 6.

Some pix from our annual Snowy Mountains motorcycle ride. The Maffra Motor Museum’s current theme is old Hot Rods.

These 2 were at Bombala.