Kenworth K-100 Grey Ghosts

Ok , you got my attention !

I spoke to the old dude with this, and he reckons its one of the old rockets, check out the driving light holes in the bullbar

get with the program Adam..
you need not only to stay 'on thread'
but you need to get the corretc infomtiaon and speling!
cum on dude..get it togethre
instead of running around snapping pictures.. Ya need to spend more time compiling the story!
You've got the pen, ya just not tickin the boxes dude!
regards
chocs

Oldbugger -
A lot of the East-Westers also used to have very high gearing, bordering on idiocy. Clevelands were notorious for the Mack-Munchers doing low flying speeds.
I personally followed a single trailer SAR Mack-Muncher in my V8 Sandman ute, between Southern X and Coolgardie in the late 1970's/early 1980's, and clocked him at a pretty constant 135-140 kmh, loaded, and heading East.
Those 450 HP Cat 3408's were absolute powerhouses in that era. Of course, in that period, the law was rarely seen on those stretches of road, unlike today .. and speed limiters were unheard of.
I often wondered how these blokes justified their speeds, because of regular tyre failures, and high tyre wear rates.
The Eyre and Gt Eastern Hwys were always littered with blown truck tyre carcasses in those days, and much of that, was just due to high speeds.

The guy i bought my mack off has one of the mack munchers sitting in his shed. Still in its clevelands colours. We had to use it to start the mack when it ran out of air. The poor SAR sounded pretty sad when we started it, i dont it had been started for awhile... lots of white smoke :'(

I spoke to the old dude with this, and he reckons its one of the old rockets

Tell him he's dreamin'

chocs

Oldbugger A lot of the East-Westers also used to have very high gearing, bordering on idiocy.

So what would the ratio have been ??? also what would the fastest ratio avalible have been back then ???

WerkOrse
GuddayM8
ifn U fill this link out
me thinks this iz wot twaz available way back when
RTO-910 =.81:1
Tyres = 1000x20 same as 11R22.5
Engine RPM = 2100

now for th@ link
www.roadranger.com/ecm/groups/public/@pu...ontent/ct_062746.swf

guessn 4.11:1 = 77.9 mph = 125.4 kph
But a screemer under light load can hit flight revs of 2250 rpm = 82mph = 132 kph

LOL

Cya
[ch9787]

Righto Teddles.............sounds good ta me.............what about a 3.36 ratio..............how fast would that go on ......say 10.00x20's and..........maybe 11R22.5's......work em out at 2100 rpms. thanks

I know I got booked in a certain speed racer at 117 km/h and was nowhere near the floor boards..........I've got a pic here that I'm not quite ready to add to the net that shows a certain truck running at about 1500 rpm's and the other big guage is way off the clock.

Darren, look here, and you can work it out yourself.
www.roadranger.com/ecm/groups/public/@pu...ontent/ct_062746.swf