Ford Lynx Scout car for sale....

[lynx42]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

I believe the BCOF had a few Lynx on issue in Japan . The Commonwealth ocupation forces that is .

MIKE

Mike K, 109 of the 170 Ford Lynx Scout Cars Australia received went to Japan to be used as Policing vehicles with BCOF. The original plan was for Staghounds to do the job but the Japanese roads were not up to carrying the 13 tons of Staghound. So the 109 Lynx Scout Cars were sent to replace them.

Mike C. I have a question for you. Did these 109 Lynx scout cars return to Australia after our commitment ceased with BCOF? Or were there only 61 Lynx's left in Australia after our commitment finished?

I have only been able to track down 14 or 15 in Australia over the past 30 years. Two just recently went to New Zealand and there was one sent years ago to England, so the numbers come down to a dozen or so left in OZ.


Mike C. I have just re read this thread and see in No.29 that you have answered my question about the return to OZ of the ones which went to Japan. Thanks.



Regards Rick.

[David Dunlop]

With regards to a Lynx moving from Australia to Canada in the 1990's, I think that might be one that Jim Fitzgerald and Reg Hodgson purchased up in Edmonton.


David

[Marc Montgomery]

In one of the old Convoy Mags is a picture of a Lynx on a farm, with a large homemade hydraulic scoop attached to it. this If I remember correctly was somewhere in western Canada... it was known to at least one collector...

anyone know what became of it????

[45jim]

Al Nicholson knows all about that converted Lynx, it was located in Cherhill or some place of a similar name.