Pickles Auctions Victoria

 

They are smoking some Weid shit in Packenham.

That Mack is crazy priced, clearly the cost of living crisis isn't as bad as we are told

Paul

.....  On the flip side, living in Melb, I'm often surprised by the low prices of QLD vehicles that Lang regularly finds.

That AB looks to be one Stephen Corstorphan (who used to be on the forum as Podge) restored for Ian Cootes.  As it was an auction from "The Cootes Collection" it's probably the one.  

The workshop doesn't exist anymore, and Stephen is driving oversize (for Doolans from memory)

This thumpadyne was @ the Crawlin the Hume April 2024
Think n they said twas nut n bolt Restoration

 

cya

Well Im a little out of touch with things, this isn't that unusual for me 

Apparently the Mack sold for $342,650.00

so this is all okay 
There's a short story about this truck and the auction on the Maxk truck forum 
I'll copy and paste it 

 

Here's the story


This 1983 Superliner was sold by Paul Cootes on 30 June 2025 at auction for $AUS 342,650 / $US 266,150, including auction buy fee of 10%. Motor - EM V8/440, 12 spd gearbox and 4.64 rears on Mack spring suspension. The sleeper is a crawl through type.History is it was bought by a gent named Bromage, who carted fuel for Shell out of Melbourne for many years. His fleet was Mack for many years, the later years being all v8 Superliners. Bromage was one of the first Superliner owners. Bromage's trucks were painted, yellow, blue and red, possibly green as well. He may have owned about 20 trucks and tankers when sold to Ian Cootes. Paul Cootes father, Ian Cootes, bought Bromage's business and all his trucks and tankers around 1989. Ian started his transport business maybe around mid 1960's with 1 tray truck and built it to a successful major fuel transport operation across the eastern coast and inland. Ian ran a very high standard operation and excellent safety record. Cootes mainly carted all types of fuel and LPG for Shell. Cootes trucks were painted dark green (like the old International green) and white with scroll work. Ian sold his business many years back to another fuel operator, then private equity bought it and onsold to another operator who completely f...d it up, in every way possible. Cootes tanker business was liquidated about 4-5 years ago. When Ian was operating his business he had operators waiting to buy his trucks when he sold them for new replacements and he got top prices. Many of his trucks are working today still with the original green and white colours. Ian died about 18 months ago from dementia related illness.Ian sold this ex Bromage Superliner because he did not like the V8's, he sold all the V8 trucks and replaced with R model 600 series with E6 and E7 motors. Later he bought Freightliners and KW's, but most of his fleet was Mack. About 3 years ago Paul re-bought this Superliner and restored it. 

Dunno if it's really restored as it is a lot more tarted up than it was new, I think it maybe what is called "resto modded" 
what ever that really means 

Sure is a flash looking truck and I hope it is enjoyed by the new owner, even if it is just to sit and stare at 
I reckon people have paid a lot more for a painting to hang on the wall of their house


Paul