mrsmackpaul

well by the sounds of it it could have been a lot worse

the Oshkosh never sold very well out here they aimed them at the high speed interstate market to begin with then logging and then just about anything else they could think of To take full advantage of the weight laws at the time the front axle needed to be set right forward which Oshkosh never did so they could not carry gross weights and then the cab was to long for the length laws of the time Wrong truck for the wrong market I think Paul

looking real good to me Paul

Well Im surprised that made it over to the US I feel a lotta luck was there that day Paul

me three thought I had done something wrong Paul

yes the 3070 was a big time truck on a small time budget and got a lot of transport companies we have today up and running basic and plenty of power for its day Great read Kevin Paul

Im sure your gunna like it to well done on the motor swap Paul

Wish I had of had a camera when they building Loy yang Power stations A & B Latrobe Valley Victoria Transfield who where the main contractors used B model Macks to haul all the big steel work around like in the photos above and this was in the late 80's early 90's a lot of the loads would have been a couple of hundred ton Last time I saw those Transfield B models was on the city link project in Melbourne No phones in cameras back then Paul

Pro's mate every body will be green with envy ,you will never run short of power, and that sound grouse Only down side I can think of is everyone will want to buy it from you Paul

They had some balls in the Aussie E9's and yeah I reckon they have a special sound all of their own get west a bit and you can hear a E9 rumble for half a hour on a still night before you see the lights OH YEAH they go hard and sound good Paul

Gudday and welcome E 9 500 you will have the fastest bin service in town Paul

looks a bit different only been single drive never thought I would see Mack and Isuzu names on the same mud flaps looking good thats a big heavy bumper you have there Paul

Well Im gunna have to put that one in the Chrissy list for under the tree IH Australia was in huge amount of dept due to IH US making IH Australia buy a lot of machinery trucks tractors and earth moving gear and and all this was done on IH credit After IH US collapse IH Australia was left in venerable position but managed to trade out of dept in a few years amazing enough but I think the final nail in the coffin was once the supply of US sourced engines tractors etc were no longer going to be available it would no longer be viable to for IH Australia to operate IH AB to D line shared the same basic cab as Dodge AT4 and D5N series IH Geelong plant cast Chrysler engine blocks a lot of Aussie V8 Hemis have IH cast into the side dunno about the 6 cylinder Those smaller ACCO's only had the 345 V8 petrol for a long time so probably only go 10 MPG at the best compare that to the little Jap diesel trucks of the time 20 MPG or better and they ran for a lot longer to, even the Jap petrol ran for ever and used a lot less fuel The little Jap trucks caught the Australian truck market by surprise thats for sure Paul

Looking good to me but those inside nuts look to be on the wrong side of the rim or maybe its just my eyes are getting old dunno I would have thought there should be a lot more cone hanging out side the rim it looks like its on the side of the rime to me Paul

it's amazing how fiddly these little jobs can be and all of sudden a whole day is gone and well there just isnt much to look at for a days work LOL sounds like your still moving along ok they Paul

making progress thats more than a lot of us are doing LOL keep at it Paul

AHHHHH the simple life has returned LOL Paul

now thats a ute !!!!!!!!!!!!! very cool Paul

can tell its not a GM as you can still see the motor LOL

looks good now just gotta put it to work Paul

And for some interesting stuff, or at least I reckon it is, here is the very first AACO's ever made under testing for the Australian Army. The prototypes look a lot more like a Blitz than the production ones. Paul

Swishy isnt gunna be impressed with this LOL

was the same truck that came back from China I may have that wrong but I seem to recall a Scania came back from spending its working life in China and got restored Either way its as neat as a pin and it looks like it has a sleeper cab as well might only be for someone skinny though Paul

plenty of humps and hollows on his drive and lots of winding road heading down to Morwell that way good road heading home though If they Argosy is only made for Australia and NewZealand is KW the same I dont know are any COE trucks made in the US anymore Paul