1983 Uncommon Kenworth

McCollough's Car Carrying at Wagga had a Batch of Single Drive L700's.



They sold out to Finemores in the late 80's early '90s. They ended up with quite few Single drive L700's..




they even had them on Meat Cartage..

Hi Hayseed mine is one of them I remember the truck and bus had them on the front cover said finemores take carrbage trucks intr state i think there were 12 or 15 ordered smiths in gympie did the car frames and someone told me brown and hurley did the half sleeper in kyogle as i say they got pretty long leggs

drove one for Finemores on local in Sydney about 96-97 I think L10 with spicer 14 speed and yes has long legs

this one had a ten speed spicer was wore out couldnt get bits for it so stuck a 15 speed in it hard facing was gone off couple of gears, was a nice box to use if you did swishes pull it in and out on the splits

L700 ...

TNT had the first ones here on front lift waste collection. The were actually Canadian built in the ex Sicard, Kenworth/Peterbilt plant ... In St. Therese (sp?) ... I'd have to check my stuff to confirm the factory but I'm sure it was there ...

This was all before they started building them here

Hi Werkhorse how are you? i think it was an early truck and bus like 1986 feb ,march they had the article on finemores taking garbbage truck interstate front cover, cause mine has sept 1985 on build plate

Bit more fuel for the fire





A low cab 'S' model Kenworth

WotSezU?

cya

KelOz wrote:

Hi Werkhorse how are you? i think it was an early truck and bus like 1986 feb ,march they had the article on finemores taking garbbage truck interstate front cover, cause mine has sept 1985 on build plate

The TNT Garbage truck on the cover of Truck &Bus was 83/84 from memory ... I'll hunt through my collection tonight and get an exact date and get back to you


Edit: I forgot I had the info on my ...

1982 L700 chassis number 701092 Fleet number 2WD135
1982 L700 chassis number 701093 Fleet number 2WD137

One I owned many years ago. pretty sure the blke bought it for using on the Tarcutta bypass. 13 years ago to be exact. God time flies. And we are getting old.







McCullochs had them on car carriers, then bought out by Finemore,they did a good job for quite a few years I believe.

Werkhouse you are probably right.the build plate on this one is 85 it still has the old style shaft gear linkage before i got it from melb i had a look at one still being run up here by toll {bad memory they took over finemores that right?} and it had the cable gear seltor in it so it must have been later, only differnce i could see was the shifter plus it was knocked around a lot more inside