Louies......Wheres all ya Louies

Thanks chocs,

I'll have to try & figure out this bucket of photo's thing.

mmm, borrowed tarps or photo-shopped?
Or maybe invisable stack belching soot ..........

Definitley NOT photo-shopped!!!

Tarp spent all(most) of it's life on a LNT 8000 24' table top. With a 3208 Cat, Stack up behind drivers door....

Chocs your Bluie Louie looks pretty flash!
The red one, (Bloke we both know from Lara?)
Was that the one that used to be owned by John Robbins, in Geelong? i remeber that was a 350 or 400,
Can't remember the drivers name, I met him once at Goondawindi on the way to Bris, he was picking up his teeth from the floor, he just could not beleive how rough it rode....

The 9000's were only available from the factory at primemover wheelbase, unless you ordered 7 I think, I think 7 was the magic number of how many they would put through of a certain model. There were quite a few long wheelbase ones about, but all of them stretched, Russ industries used to do a lot for Denmac as well as Tony Lane and Howard Trim. The bloke that had the shop at Bororen had one with a VT350 in it stretched when it was new with a high rise Cummings bunk on it and tray, Gows had a single drive one with a 903 in it stretched and a lazy from new with a tray on it as well.

Did not think that Ford ever made a longer chassis than about a 220 inch wheelbase ex factory.
The only stretched chassis tray trucks that are on the road, were done in Lindsay Bros workshop at Coffs. When they were flogged out at about the 5,000,000 Km mark, they stripped them down , stretched the chassis rails and added a tray to them. They sent these reborn tray trucks out to the different depots, as pick up trucks to deliver to the centres, for a full trailer load to be made up.


I could be up the creek with this lot, but IDSTBC, yadda, yadda, etc, etc.

regards greenie [smiley=vrolijk_1.gif]

Chocs your Bluie Louie looks pretty flash!
The red one, (Bloke we both know from Lara?)
Was that the one that used to be owned by John Robbins, in Geelong? i remeber that was a 350 or 400,
Can't remember the drivers name, I met him once at Goondawindi on the way to Bris, he was picking up his teeth from the floor, he just could not beleive how rough it rode....

Yes it is him mate...
It wasn't Robins ol truck though..
They still had or have that.. Dunno whether John 'Puff' Pitson drove that for them?
They used to do the ford stuff ay..

were a couple of white ones on the ford stuff too with like Blakistons green on em remember?? Did they belong to Ken Cooper???????? Lindrea had a few too..
We are startin to sound like them ol blokes you always talk about ...


chocs

Here's ours

89 LTL 9000

3406E 550HP, 18Speed RR, Walkin Beam, Straight though pipes

Truck Show 83 I think





First LTL in Queensland (above)

When i drove for mcphees in a lnt i was called a, social driver ? Had to ask ,
S -silly
O- old
C- ***t
I- in
A -a
L- louieville !

I came ....... THAT ....... close to buying one of those petrol guzzling 477 petrol ones when they came out not that long before petrol prices went up.
Wonder if any ever survived?

g'day chocs and all... that old blue lousybilt was a little bit before my time with bay city trucks (can tell by the style of mudflap)

very nice looking rig for her day, all up.

cheers