[Mike K]

Originally Posted by Ausmick

Have not been on line for a bit.
Finally got the truck just the way I wanted it and took off to the Alice Springs Truck Show.
Left home and one of the two good looking ‘old’ tyres on the back blew out, so two news ones in Narrabri on day 1 – also – at Moree the 6v pulley broken in two and went into the radiator! The pulley had a hairline crack in it, maybe where some fool in the past had hit it off with a hammer, or fatigue? I hitchhiked back to Coona and pulled a radiator out of one wreck I knew had a good one, and found a new pulley on another wreck beside it.
Got going and didn’t have another problem – well one – till I got home after driving the old truck 5600km up through Queensland into the Northern Territory to Alice Springs, back into South Australia to Broken Hill to home.
Other problem I had was the earth strap not doing its part properly – which it is now.
Left home with 110 litres of fuel in her tanks – 500 litres in drums in the back - $400 dollars worth of tucker – generator – cloths – spares – and most important, 10 cartons of beer.
The parade on the Sunday at Alice was 8 km long having 900 old to new trucks lined up, went for three hours through the outside of town.
You wouldnt believe it but on the day another C8AX got in line behind me!

Christ almighty what a feat ! You deserve a medal .. or a trip to the local funny farm

MIKE