Thread: Anyone Travelling the Coast Road from Sydney to Brisbane - See if you can spot thiis!

Originally Posted by Hogarthde

Lionel, I agree with you and Dave that Perkins are very good engines , we have had /have them in the sawmill.
The 6.354 was also used a lot in Massey- Ferguson tractors, so farm equipment dismantlers might be another avenue to explore........though the governors , fuelling calibration might need some attitude adjustment .

We had an early 60's Commer truck with a 6.354. A better engine and truck than the regular offering with the Knocker. You may need to get some work done at a diesel shop. As I recall the automotive and mobile plant engines had different governors and calibration.

This is going to be a hobby vehicle. Is fuel economy important if you are spending many thousands on an engine transplant? I would go for an American big block and give it some get up and go. Chev 454, Ford 460, Chrysler 440, or one of the big old petrol V8's & V6's used in US trucks in the 60's. IHC had some whoppers. You could keep it all Inter. that way.

Nice.
Trucks were being waved through at the Qld border on the M1when we came through Friday, so you should be right, but to be sure you might want to apply online for a Qld Entry Pass and stick the printed copy to the passenger side windscreen. Probably unnecessary, but you never know in these strange days indeed.

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello Dave,
The Perkins was also popular with people who bought ex-Army Mark 1... IV International cab over four or six wheel drive vehicles.

this is where a not insignificant amount of my experience with them has come from.

if you find the right one... some of the plant engines are actually truck engines with external mods to the rack to make them perform like plant engines (typically throttle stops for stationary fixed or limited speed variation applications)

My mate had a Perkins 6.354 in an ex cray fishing boat he had trucked up to Deagon, from South Australia a few years back. Reliable as, easy to work on. Found this.

Perkins | The 6.354 story – the making of a legend

Originally Posted by Lionelgee

Hello Alan,

Thank you for the information Alan. Especially about the note of caution about fiberglass and paint strippers!

Just wondering whether this yellow is bright enough for you? There is another photograph that I have to hunt down that shows the original paint on the dash. I will post it up once I find it. Okay I had to contact the previous owner because the photographs of the dash were deleted from the site after I bought the van. I have not seen the truck in real life yet. However, the paint on the dash seems very familiar to me with the Telecom yellow. The paint also looks original - well to me. That colour is one that is hard to forget - plus a number of previous owners gave the van the same origins. Hopefully the story has not grown and become a case of misinterpreted Chinese whispers?

Lionel,
Thanks for the photos! I'm working off a 50 year old memory of DCA yellow, and of course camera and monitors come in to play here, but those photos go close. Mick88 in Irymple has an S2 that is ex DCA and he very kindly had a part colour matched by a paint place in Mildura that suggested a DeBeer colour Rainbow J1200 was very close. Another suggestion for DCA is Traffic Yellow RAL 1023. The Telecom yellow is I think slightly more orange and is perhaps code LRC 561. Anyway, we can investigate further once your beast arrives!
Alan

Ol' smokey comes to mind.

Originally Posted by aussearcher

Lionel,
Thanks for the photos! I'm working off a 50 year old memory of DCA yellow, and of course camera and monitors come in to play here, but those photos go close. Mick88 in Irymple has an S2 that is ex DCA and he very kindly had a part colour matched by a paint place in Mildura that suggested a DeBeer colour Rainbow J1200 was very close. Another suggestion for DCA is Traffic Yellow RAL 1023. The Telecom yellow is I think slightly more orange and is perhaps code LRC 561. Anyway, we can investigate further once your beast arrives!
Alan

At GM-H vehicles built for DCA were painted in a colour called Aviation Orange. This may have been their official fleet colour or may have been the GM-H name for that colour.

Originally Posted by aussearcher

Lionel,
Thanks for the photos! I'm working off a 50 year old memory of DCA yellow, and of course camera and monitors come in to play here, but those photos go close. Mick88 in Irymple has an S2 that is ex DCA and he very kindly had a part colour matched by a paint place in Mildura that suggested a DeBeer colour Rainbow J1200 was very close. Another suggestion for DCA is Traffic Yellow RAL 1023. The Telecom yellow is I think slightly more orange and is perhaps code LRC 561. Anyway, we can investigate further once your beast arrives!
Alan

It is called Telecom Gold.