[Darrin Wright]

many years ago on MLU and Keith's site I had a bit of history and some pics of this truck that I posted up for all to read, but since then I have learnt more about it and to shed more light on it now.

This truck was given ARN 89134, recieved throught NSW as a C60L Unbinned (whatever that means). It has an Army cargo tray on it, that does not allow the sides to fold down- they are bolted in place.

During its time in the Army it had an engine rebuild, when I stripped the engine down it had the milage painted on the LH side of the block.

It was declared for disposal on 24 Apr 1964, it was sold at MGO/3 BOD/ GPI/ T21. What I know of this is 3 BOD is Seymour military area in Vic.

I purchased the truck from North eastern Truck Wreckers in Wodonga in early 1991, fairly complete. It had been a fire truck in the Urana shire (north of Albury/Wodonga) and had been well looked after. Although someone had stolen the dash data plate from it.
The truck only had 14500 miles on it from new, unfortunatly could not claim any new car/truck warranty on it.

being young with lots of money, I conducted a ground up restoration that took until about 1998 when it was put back on the road with a permit in Sydney. I was then moved to Darwin in 1999 and I took it with me. It sat in my car port for awhile, I went to East Timor for a working holiday for 3 months, then it went into the Darwin Aviation Museum on public display.

Now it is home for a bit of TLC.
The AIF markings on the nose cone are not correct, that was my doing to give the truck some identity & character as my Dad's C15A has all those markings on it. But the ARN is in the correct place as to when the Army applied it.

Enjoy