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I recall the occasion I was at Bills main yard , I think A Browne was with me , anyway he drove us around to another shop somewhere in the back streets , he seemed to have yards all over the place . Anyway I mentioned I had a early C8 4x2 blitz and he said his father had one of those too , apparently they had a garage business and they used the C8 as a run around vehicle . He showed us a mezzanine floor and I climbed up and stacked up against the wall were 6 brand new cab 11 windscreens , all still wrapped up in paper , you can imagine, I was trying to hold back my look of wow ! Anyway the price was 15 bucks each ! I took three of the screens, these were complete windscreens in original paint .
Bill was telling me about the 1/2 ton Dodge Command car they sold after the war , he said a rural postman in NSW bought it .... this was the Command Car I tracked down in 1979 ....
back to the shop ..he had packets of NOS Chev wiring looms just sitting there . Another VMVC member bought heaps of stuff there , even qualifying for the free calender Drews' had printed.
There was a huge amount of NOS chorehorse spares too....
Poor Bill wanted to keep the business going but his siblings wanted to close it all .....
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1940 cab 11 C8
1940 Morris-Commercial PU
1941 Morris-Commercial CS8
1940 Chev. 15cwt GS Van ( Aust.)
1942-45 Jeep salad
Last edited by Mike K; 07-10-15 at 03:08.
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