33 years on...

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

In all seriousness the beetleback appears to have been scorched.

I thought from my previous discussions with you FGT's in OZ were all the OZ built square back ones.

What's the go with this one??

Yes it has spent a long time in the tropical sun.

The go is there are a small number of survivors here which came back as cargo with our troops from the Western Desert campaign. There are at least five FGTs I know of and seven or so CGTs.

Because they were 'non-standard' they were put into the training role, and there are pics of the Fords in use on the Atherton Tablelands at places like Kairi which is not that far from Mareeba where this one now resides.

Rebuilds of Fords include the Len Watkins beauty in Sydney and Lloyd McCarthy in Gympie.

[king of obsolete]

keith, thansk for the picture of you. the last time i seen you was in the dvd recapping of the movie "Back of Beyond".
in the great white north, on a cold winter night when the temperature is -45C, we toss that dvd in to the player and sit and watch. it warms us up seeing you guys out having fun in the heat, LOL.

nice complete vehicles there and glad they have been saved.

thansk
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[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by king of obsolete

keith, thansk for the picture of you. the last time i seen you was in the dvd recapping of the movie "Back of Beyond".
in the great white north, on a cold winter night when the temperature is -45C, we toss that dvd in to the player and sit and watch. it warms us up seeing you guys out having fun in the heat, LOL.

nice complete vehicles there and glad they have been saved.

thansk
KoO
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Hi there Joey!

How's things in your summer up there? Great to see you here again.

You'll be interested to hear it is the depth of winter in the far north of Australia with daytime temperatures struggling to reach the 30C mark and plunging down to a freezing (for the locals) 14 at night.

Glad to hear my DVDs have such a warming effect on you guys way over there.

[Ganmain Tony]

Originally Posted by Keith Webb

Yes it has spent a long time in the tropical sun.

The go is there are a small number of survivors here which came back as cargo with our troops from the Western Desert campaign. There are at least five FGTs I know of and seven or so CGTs.

Because they were 'non-standard' they were put into the training role, and there are pics of the Fords in use on the Atherton Tablelands at places like Kairi which is not that far from Mareeba where this one now resides.

Rebuilds of Fords include the Len Watkins beauty in Sydney and Lloyd McCarthy in Gympie.

To say nothing of being in the western desert as well.

Its a beauty & is definitely the one I would love to add to my vast collection.
I remember you showing Howard & myself some footage of these in a parade after the Allied victory in Africa in front of good old Winston, all with limbers and cannon (presumably 25 pounders) it was a magnificent sight.

[king of obsolete]

keith we are having a wet cool summer up here. i have never seen it rain this much. also trying to save some cmp parts from a fellow who is sleaning up his yard.

do you have a snail mail adress and i'll toss on of my books in the mail to you for "free" for all you have done over the years in keeping these old vehicles alive.

info@kingofobsolete.ca

thansk
KoO
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