Just before christmas Cam McFadyen sent me this little selection: "Brian,if you're a bit hard up for something to use over the holidays this isn`t exaxctly a truck story---it's more of a ute story,the smaller relative. Anyway the shot above is one of my Landcruisers---a 100 series 'poverty pack'.The photo was taken beside the lighthouse in Cooktown (the site of the first white fella settlement in Oz) on a recent Sales trip to the north.And yes there is a tilt tray in Cooktown (pop approx 1500),though not one of mine (yet).Anyway I was getting a bit sick of folding myself into one of the 75 series,so this one is now a ute.See ya,Cam."
And here's another of the Cammobile...
Meanwhile Cam has sent me two more shots of another ute he used to (and I quote his very words' "fang about in..." err.....Aussie-to-English translation please anyone?
And now the three quarter rear....
Nice dinky little Toyota complete with high level air intake for the odd bit of wading...
Now a few more shots from the road including what looks like an Argosy to me....click through here for more.....
Including the outside of this old-timer..but what is it?
And for a Mince pie what is it?
And while you're at it identify this one too...
And it';s nice to see that up north even the trucks stop at the bus stop to pick up passengers.....
To fang about is to rush around, not recommended in one of these old Toyotas unless you want to end up upside down. I think the old truck might be a 1940s Dodge.
The "No Exit" old-timer is a Dodge or it's twin, a Fargo. Hard to tell without some chrome.
The other two are White Road Boss models.
"Fang about" (Aus)
equals
"Hoon around" (NZ)
equals
"Drive not quite politically correctly, usually off-road, and have a hell of a lot of fun doing it" (UK)
The Land Cruiser model that Cam says he used for it is a great machine for doing it in too; it will stand up to it for a lot longer than that other machine with a very similar name that was made in the UK.
And with a TJM (I dont think its an ARB) front bo'ing bar. Rob Collinge, the ex-rally driver in Nairobi, imports these things by the container-full from the Land 'O the Clanking Chain and welds 'em up and paints them before selling them on at a "suitable" additional consideration.....all our Cruisers are fitted with one or the other make (we make our own bespoke internal roll cages), most with a winch normally fitted in them too.