F60L ARN 46660 Cab 12

[Ken Smith]

One of the first things I have to do is repair the mods to the bonnet. Somebody cut the front of the bonnet and bent it up, they also put a very well made hinged flap in the top of the bonnet, all this work to direct more air in to the radiator and engine bay.
Chard F60L 60l shown under bonnet.JPG

Chard F60L mods to bonnet.JPG

The top flap is seized open at the moment.
I was just thinking the top flap would help stop vaporising too. A lot of the AWM pictures show the North South road cab 12s with the bonnets off.

Cheers Ken

[Ganmain Tony]

An extraordinary start for a project Ken.. despite the mods to the bonnet.

Appears to be very complete. Is the bar that goes through the Radiator shroud still there??

Well done on saving the old beast - keep the pictures coming

[Ken Smith]

Good day Tony,
Nice to hear from you thanks for your comments, I will be putting up photos as often as possible. I would have liked the two truck threads to have not been merged as it would have been easier to follow each trucks new life, any way I will do my best with the merged thread and I can put a few other truck resto pictures in when it suits.
I just noticed my grey truck ARN 46660 and your truck are only 34 chassis numbers apart. I like those sort of interesting things happening, the two trucks may have even been parked next to each other at the factory or got their ARN's at the same time although I see your ARN is a lot different to my number. If I can get my trucks looking even half as good as yours I will be happy. Thanks for such a detailed restoration record.

Cheers Ken

[Lionelgee]

G'day Ken,

I just looked at the photograph I had of the tilt tray truck that brought my 1940 Chevrolet from Dalby to Bundaberg. It looks like the same truck that brought your Ford to your place. Are you near Dalby?

PS. I just checked my one photograph showing the tilt tray truck's number plate and it starts off 521 J ... It has the same pinstriping above the number plate. Looks like it is the same UD tilt truck - you should have asked for a MLU discount rate!

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Ken Smith]

Good day Lionel,
I do live near Dalby and I am not very far from Mick the owner of the tilt tray, so I get a bit of a discount anyway. Depending when you got your truck it would have been Mick or the previous owner Jason that delivered it, both top blokes.

It must have been Mick, and you must have had an effect on him, as he has started collecting 1 ton Chevs, with the intention of restoring one back to civilian colours.

Cheers Ken

[Lionelgee]

Originally Posted by Ken Smith

Good day Lionel,
I do live near Dalby and I am not very far from Mick the owner of the tilt tray, so I get a bit of a discount anyway. Depending when you got your truck it would have been Mick or the previous owner Jason that delivered it, both top blokes.

It must have been Mick, and you must have had an effect on him, as he has started collecting 1 ton Chevs, with the intention of restoring one back to civilian colours.

Cheers Ken

G'day Ken,

I bought my Chev from Russell Price's located on Toowoomba Road. If Jason is a Price then it would have been Mick who delivered my truck. If it was Jason, then he had only just sold the truck when I was arranging to have my Chevy delivered here. If that is how things ran - as it has been years since; then maybe, it was Mick who delivered my Chevy!

Yes, the Chevys can be contagious. One thing about going to Price's place is that you need to bring a packed lunch and water because it can take a day to just tour the place!

Kind Regards
Lionel

[Ken Smith]

Good day,
I just have just discovered my F60L ARN 58171 has a Machinery "D" loading body, does anyone know what that had in it?
I had a look on the AWM site but no interior pictures, except of a Machinery "E" trailer.

The left hand page of the ARN list also has a notation,
Check per G.R.O. 0.831/43 22/3/44. Any idea on that one?

Cheers Ken