Re: newbie

G-day just found this forum per discussion on the grey ghosts I did drive these for comet out of bris and can verify they were good for 80-90 m.p.h I drove an inter prior to that carting for hawthorn out of bris to syd did 3 return trips per week av. time 10.1/2 -11 hrs best time from mascot to marooka 10.1/4 hrs on tacho card the thing would top 130 m.p.h. at a few places on the n/eng like doing bathurst 6 times a weekI don't know if any of the old n/eng runners would remember it they used to call it the flying machine would like to hear from any-one from those days. cheers. oldbloke

Welcome Ol Mate,

Great to have some first hand yarn for the early days.

Basil

OlBloke
GuddayM8
Welcome to this weid mob
LOL
not th@ I had any thing to do with them Silver bullits or gray ghosts
but did C m around Melbourne @ times

Jokers here don't beleive me when I mentioned the speed they could do
if the screemers were govoned to 2100 RPM n with a light load with a V8-71 @ 318HP U could max out @ 2250rpm @ flight revs n th@ could add nuther 20MPH with tall diff ratios

Q:?
Hoo else had them overnight ridgid trucks??
Seem to remember a mob in Nth Melbourne but can't recall name

they all did have a bit of opposition with the Dodge V8 petrol jiggers do n light load overnight express @ brake neck speed

The Dodge truck might have been all the go Back then may B cos U didn't need a log book for the small truck

ButEyeDoSt&2BCorrected!

Cya

[ch9787]

G-day Swishy that was probably Hawthorn in melb. they had depots in Syd & Bris as well they mainly ran dodges We had 2 inters on the Bris -Syd run would eat the dodges Wes Searle had a whole heap of dodgy's running out of nth parramatta I think they ran to melb. as well as bris.and did paper runs as well. then there was ipec who ran a variety of trucks they even made some of their own at one stage. all of hawthorn trucks were subbies. they were hard days.

and by the way we did have to run log books as anything over 4 ton gross had to use a book I used to mainly go 7-8 ton. had a couple of books would run one from bris to bendemeer then the other one bendemeer to syd. them were the day's

Welcome aboard, oldbloke, hope you are already enjoying yourself here.

on the talking chair about the old dodges ..anyone have any pics of a dodge paper truck? from the 60/70s ? ..i was still running a "warm" V8 petrol dodge interstate till 5 years ago she would sit on 80 + mp/h day and night & not loose much speed on the hills of the hume

Here B Muscats Jiggr
They sent me this pic hope n to track down the beast to restore



Cya

[ch9787]

Phwoar, look at that wheelbase. Hope they find her.

Awwwwwwww
Gudday M8
Th@ truck should/could/woud B titled


GOT WHEELBASE

LOL
cya