Something different down under!

[Timmyb 739]

I was heading south to Albany for Christmas with my family. We stayed last night at a little place called Kojonup, and I notice something parked off the Main Street. Had to go back and check it out. 
So am I right in guessing it a DM? It’s still left hand drive, and DM’s were never available in Australia. Wonder how it ended up down here?

[Swishy 1,388]

nice find TimB

it may have been imported by the yanks and used @ the Exmouth base .... then sold off

as recently as 1963 that a naval town serving the US Naval Communication Station, Harold E. Holt, and the Learmonth RAAF Base, was established.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-23.2816757,115.3631822,7.66z

many years ago there were a few International V200 trucks runing around here they were from the yanks @ Exmouth when they sold m off

the inter V200 looked like this one

[img]http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc434/Ivorproject/v200.jpg[/img]

cya

[mrsmackpaul 2,471]

Did it have a bend in chassis behind the cab, or at the back of the cab ?

 

Western Traders had a 6x6 Flinstone many years ago that wasnt ex army

Came out with some oil drilling mob is what they told me

Had a drop in the chassis rails at the back of the cab

 

Paul

 

[topo 33]

I would say by seeing the rope rail around the bed this truck was used to haul drilling mud  .

[Vladislav 2,991]

Cool find Timmy!

Must be really interesting to see such unusual animal in your environment.

[mowerman 2,182]

man that sucker looks really clean,,,would look good in my yard...bob

[Timmyb 739]

On 12/24/2020 at 9:17 AM, mrsmackpaul said:

Did it have a bend in chassis behind the cab, or at the back of the cab ?

 

Western Traders had a 6x6 Flinstone many years ago that wasnt ex army

Came out with some oil drilling mob is what they told me

Had a drop in the chassis rails at the back of the cab

 

Paul

 

The chassis was pretty strange. Almost certainly was bent in some way, from the angle I looked it seemed as though it was deeper at the front and tapered down to a more usual size at the rear. 

[Timmyb 739]

On 12/24/2020 at 7:40 AM, Swishy said:

nice find TimB

it may have been imported by the yanks and used @ the Exmouth base .... then sold off

as recently as 1963 that a naval town serving the US Naval Communication Station, Harold E. Holt, and the Learmonth RAAF Base, was established.

https://www.google.com.au/maps/@-23.2816757,115.3631822,7.66z

many years ago there were a few International V200 trucks runing around here they were from the yanks @ Exmouth when they sold m off

the inter V200 looked like this one

[img]http://i1211.photobucket.com/albums/cc434/Ivorproject/v200.jpg[/img]

cya

Your probably right there Swishy, I remember seeing the same truck for sale up at geraldton which isn’t too far from exmouth in the scale of things. 

[terry 526]

On 12/25/2020 at 5:02 AM, Timmyb said:

The chassis was pretty strange. Almost certainly was bent in some way, from the angle I looked it seemed as though it was deeper at the front and tapered down to a more usual size at the rear. 

Normal for a DM model.   terry

[Vladislav 2,991]

Yup. There's a reason for a stepped style of the rails if the truck is 6x6. But this one doesn't have FWD so standart fishbelly style DM frame should work fine there.

[cpgeneration 12]

That truck looks like a DM 600 with that short nose, nicer to drive than an 800 bounces a little more than an 800 on the bridge joints.