Its infectious

[hrpearce]

Originally Posted by Ganmain Tony

timing 180 degrees out. Pulled out distributer and refitted.

VVROOOOOOM!!!! All RIGHT!!!!

180 degrees out, move all leads 3 places around cap

[motto]

There's no doubt about what sort of dog Clevo is. He's obviously a rot wheeler.

[motto]

Going back over the thread, I see that a photo of my truck appears on post three with some conjecture as to the owner.
L/L Chev registration number FN575 was mine for over 30 years. We travelled tens of thousands of miles together and among other tasks she hauled untold tons of vintage tin. We were in numerous TV and film productions starting with "The Sullivans" and she is one of the very few vehicles that has taken part in all three of the 'Back to the Track' runs through Central Australia. The last trip we did together was from Istanbul to Normandy with the ANZAC European Tour last year.When that was over we took her to England and attended some military vehicle events culminating in a week at the War and Peace Show in Kent. After that we turned the truck over to her new owner and a week later flew home.
Yes, I miss having her parked out in the shed. It couldn't be otherwise with a vehicle that had been a part of my life for so long and after all the adventures we had together.
David

[Ganmain Tony]

Originally Posted by motto

Going back over the thread, I see that a photo of my truck appears on post three with some conjecture as to the owner.
L/L Chev registration number FN575 was mine for over 30 years. We travelled tens of thousands of miles together and among other tasks she hauled untold tons of vintage tin. We were in numerous TV and film productions starting with "The Sullivans" and she is one of the very few vehicles that has taken part in all three of the 'Back to the Track' runs through Central Australia. The last trip we did together was from Istanbul to Normandy with the ANZAC European Tour last year.When that was over we took her to England and attended some military vehicle events culminating in a week at the War and Peace Show in Kent. After that we turned the truck over to her new owner and a week later flew home.
Yes, I miss having her parked out in the shed. It couldn't be otherwise with a vehicle that had been a part of my life for so long and after all the adventures we had together.
David

You cant tease us like that David without some pictures.....

[motto]

I will try and get some pictures up Tony but I really do struggle with this IT stuff and at times wish I had a very large catapult outside the back door that I could happily use to hurl this infuriating device down the paddock and out of sight. I can't even find where you shovel the coal into it!!
To make matters worse my photo collection is in total dis-array and as we are in the throes of serious renovations on the house (which by the way I should be working on) they are mostly in amongst a huge pile of boxes and stripey bags in the garage.
In the meantime. There was a documentary produced on the ANZAC Tour titled 'Driving to D-Day', that went to air in Australia and I think NZ on the History Channel on the 6th of June last. There is a web site to do with this doco and in the photo file is a picture of my truck taken in Mulhouse France. Mulhouse is well known as the home of the French national car museum which includes the Schlumff collection and also of the national railway museum, neither of which rates a mention but are world class displays.
I and my Chev are well known to some of the regular forum contributors and when the Chev went unrecognised as happened in a previous thread where it was pictured in Alice Springs I was somewhat puzzled. In that thread the cab was mis-identified by someone as being a Holden built one when it is in fact American. The mistake was understandable because of a reflection that made it look like it had quarter vent windows. At that time I didn't know how to post, only look, so couldn't correct but I thought that someone who knew the truck would have at least identified the owner.
The only way I know how to put information in a post is to type it so will close this and find the 'Driving to D-Day' website and put it in another post.
David

[motto]

Here 'tis.
www.drivingtod-day.com.au

[Richard Farrant]

Originally Posted by motto

I will try and get some pictures up Tony but I really do struggle with this IT stuff and at times wish I had a very large catapult outside the back door that I could happily use to hurl this infuriating device down the paddock and out of sight. I can't even find where you shovel the coal into it!!

Hi Dave,

To help you out, here are a couple of photos of your Chev, one on the MVT campsite in Normandy and the other taken outside my workshop in England.
I have seen your Chev at Corowa several times, as well as on the Alice to Darwin convoy and again on the Ghan Track, and to see it in Normandy and then turn up outside my home, was quite something.......my neighbour was impressed!

regards, Richard

[motto]

Test photo. Brass band on board ANZAC Day 2008. Photo taken at intersection of Flinders and Swanston Streets, Melbourne, April 25th 2008 whilst waiting to move off. My 90 year old father Ray, a WW2 veteran, in the passenger seat.
David