Hollywood Montage

[Keith Webb]

Originally Posted by Mike Kelly

Great Job Richard

Tims other Blitz that year at Corowa was a neat cab 13 Ford F15 with a 302 Windsor and C4 auto .. it ended up in Tasmania .

Mike

Didn't that one come to a sticky (or wet end) in Tassie?

[Mike K]

ERR yes keith, but I wont go into the details here !

Mike

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

ALEX, you are forgetting perhaps that we do things differently DownUnder?
RICK, no wheel wobbles, but plenty of strange noises, MOJO looking forward to some TLC
Brenton, every farm in this area has a few Cent turret bins, Tim V. off loaded a paddock full of them about 10 years ago, cheap laying box for chooks. Swapped one of mine for a ride in a Cent. (highly recomended), and cut the bit that curves around the turret off, for a tool box (this one). 2 more left, but will find a use for them.
Mike, perhaps we have found Tims secret to quick resto's. One truck does everything? The tray in your first pic is my tray, and must be after the Bofors photo, which would explain the change from dark green to the olive drab that it was when I got it. If you can find the photo from the front, it should have the number 64560 on the front, a blue square with 40 inside as well. Check out my 1st pic with yours, and you will see what I mean. Love to see any more photos of this truck, Tim himself is not too keen to go into his archives to find them, but looks like I ended up with a bit of local history.
I remember a "different" V8 Blitz for sale in Tassie about '82/83, though my memory was that it was a larger engine, but definatley a shorty, this adv. was the seed that eventually grew in to the compulsion to buy a Blitz. truly is a small world at times!!
Rich

[Richard Coutts-Smith]

Mike,
just thought to look at the numbers on the back of your pic, and yes they are the same truck. To busy looking at the small details to see the obvious.
Rich

[Mike K]

OK Rich

Well, they rise from the ashes like pnoenix did . This is a background pic of it ..but I know I have another better one somewhere ..

I also found this pic taken during our club XMAS trip to Barooga in 77, we called into visit Col A. at Shepp . He had quite a bit of carrier stuff there at the time , including 2 X 2 pounder hulls .. it was scrounged from Plumbs yard at Benalla I think. Notice the Bandicoot AC hull in the background ?

Mike

[aj.lec]

Congratulations Rich
Always a good feeling on there first run if nothing major goes wrong
some things are worth waiting for

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Great looking truck, Richard!

It proves time flies when you´re really having fun. . .

Hanno