M8 Greyhound in Australia.

[Douglas Greville]

Fellas

That Greyhound on ebay is a mongrel.
- It has what appears to be a Gamma Goat engine in it (Detroit Diesel 3/53). Owner says it is a "453" which is unlikely. The alternator would have come with the donk. It should have a JXD Hercules (Studebaker 6x6, White Scout).
- It appears they have cut a hole through the side of the hull for
the exhaust (a Greyhound's starts on the LHS and goes across under the
engine where the muffler is
located then up and out through the rear RHS mudguard panel).
- A ~6" extension collar has been fitted around the engine bay to take the
extra height of the retrofit motor but it appears they have kept all parts
and reinstalled them such as engine louvre decking.
- Breech has been cut off and the shell deflector and side guards are missing,
although owner says he has replacement breech.
- It is hard to tell, but it appears that the fuel tank is not insitu, which would
suggest either a jerry rigged fuel system or none at all.
- The binnage on the front face of the firewall are all missing.
- No picture of the large capacity shell rack that should be in the sponson.
- Extension mudguards missing, however this is not that unusual and many
owners take them off to reduce the width of the vehicle - the
owner says he still has them.

+ On the plus side, those data plates look old, originals perhaps?
+ RHS rear panel does not have cutout for exhaust, which suggests this
was a very early build vehicle.

As to Oz use of Greyhounds. General opinion is that there was at least one Aussie unit in Europe that had Greyhounds on some sort of loan basis, which could have been either British inventory or even direct from US stocks.
It would be nice to be able to find out the details of which unit this was?
Nobody appears to know of any actually purchased by the Australian government.

Regards
Doug
M8 Owner.