Vintage 1960’s AEC Mandator Quad Axle Tow Truck

Not mine.....

www.grays.com/lot/0004-5045760/transport...e-tow-truck?spr=true

https://res3.grays.com/handlers/imagehandler.ashx?t=sh&id=32256755&s=d&index=0&ts=637626281770000000

Mammoth Major 8 wheeler.....2AV 760.

Ad says 8x6. ?????

Holmes Wrecker (ex DiamondT?) on the back.

Looks nice from a distance, if you squint your eyes. With a 671 GM progress would be pretty steady. It claims to be a Mandator but that model was a 4x2, more like a Mammoth Major 8.

mammoth wrote:

Looks nice from a distance, if you squint your eyes. With a 671 GM progress would be pretty steady. It claims to be a Mandator but that model was a 4x2, more like a Mammoth Major 8.

Not that I know anything about the model, but I think they are going on this badge,

https://res0.grays.com/handlers/imagehandler.ashx?t=sh&id=32256723&s=d&index=0&ts=637626281550000000

yep, the grille probably came off another truck

Fair chance the whole jigger's a bitser.

I would have loved to have it as a toy but I have no use for it and could not afford to drive it very far. Is that a Victorian number plate on the front? I think I saw it in Vic. some years ago.

It sold for $6400.

Must confess to not knowing too much about AEC's. Was a single drive, same cabib shape for sale up in the Mallee/ Wimmera are not all that long ago. Was parked on the bank of a dam, visible from the road. Talking to a bloke over at Clunes show, cupla years ago, told me bloke took 2 grand for it, reckoned the gearbox alone was worth that, said he thought it was a 12 speed air splitter box?? Dont know enough about them. Dave_64