Military Museum in Austria - the Robert Gill Collection

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The Studebaker US6 is one that I rebuilt with help from a friend and took to Normany in '94 for the 50th anniversary of the invasion. Robert purchased it from me after I took it to the W & P Show that year.
Robert insisted that I drive it to his home in Grossensersdorf just outside Vienna because I had had some engine difficulties and he wanted to be sure he wasn't buying a dud. It was just on a thousand miles from where the truck was stored at Cyril Groombridge's place in East Sussex and I set off on my own at a steady 38 MPH. I travelled across Germany on the autobahn for ease of navigation which was interesting. The whole trip was done on Victorian club permit plates which confused the weigh bridge man at the Austrian border. He marked the registration box on the certificate as NATO. The fighting was going on in Bosnia at that time and there were a lot of MVs heading in that direction.
The only difficulty I had was on the second day out when the fibre cam follower broke off on the ignition points. Miraculously the only spares I was carrying was a set of points and an engine gasket set.
Whilst staying with Robert he told me that he needed a r/h rear spring and hangers for a Staghound Armoured Car. On my return to Australia I removed what he required from a wreck on an old bombing range and sent it to him as he requested via Lauda Air. I never heard whether he got it and have not heard from or of him until this thread.

David