Remember Volvo G88s and 89s

The old Volvos looked pretty good in the seventies

that g88 volvo was it one of bill featherstones from albury they were located in 1086 mate st albury and were selling them aswell the sales blokes name was howard mason in those days my dad was going to buy one it had a sleeper and a splitter on the dash changed his mind and brought a mack working for cubico in bell st preston matt obrien brought the first one in albury followed by clive phillips in wodonga pulling a van for fridgemobile

That LB Scania in the background looks like a Geoffrey Thompson truck, from Shepparton.
JB

have a look at www.hunteroldtrucks.com for the history of volvo trucks in auatralia

That is a Shepparton truck I took that photo at my workplace, Midstar motors around late seventies we had a truck auction on that weekend

Does anyone know about F88' in Aus. According to Volvo there were only ever 50 'UK type" (what the poms called the 290) imported but I have seen pictures of others. I have got hold of one as cab chassis and eventually got the original motor (in pieces) to go with it. The G88 had a TD100A while the imported UK type had (supposedly) a TD100B. However mine is a TD100BD, and seems to be a short TD100A with B ancillaries
Any Comments?

My boss started out in the trucking world by driving this one here in Tassie back in the late 70's.

Here's and old G88 looking for a new owner to bring it back to life. It's in Donald Victoria. Don't have it's owners phone number, but I could find t if anyone was keen on it. Pity to see them rusting away like this. Looks like this would be a good project, I reckon anyway!

Cab looks fairly sound too. I see it has the spotter window in the passenger door which was a factory option not seen very often.

This might be of interest to a Volvo person
cgi.ebay.com.au/VOLVO-F86-TRUCK-/1805521..._Commercial_Vehicles