Out of Date Tyres

Mick we don’t need to know about your bedroom antics! [emoji6]

Gosh Ian, haven’t heard that since the great flood!
However I thought the original pilot house had only one rear window?
would that be the ‘poly ‘ engine ?

Looks to be in fine fettle, good find indeed

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

Well done. Very nice 70 year old truck. Where did you find it I have been looking out for a good tidy one for years.

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It was on Facebook Marketplace . Untapped resource . 1700km away though , still could not pass it up.

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Originally Posted by Hogarthde

Gosh Ian, haven’t heard that since the great flood!
However I thought the original pilot house had only one rear window?
would that be the ‘poly ‘ engine ?

Looks to be in fine fettle, good find indeed

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Mentions the PilotHouse name here, 1948 - 1953 Dodge Truck VIN

just found this old ad !

https://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/attachment/2912

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Originally Posted by goingbush

just found this old ad !

https://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/attachment/2912

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Reading that add about a seventy year old vehicle,seems it was probably better sealed for wet weather than a 6 yr old Defender[bighmmm]

Love these adds......noticed it specified ‘new rear quarter windows’, so did the original pilot house only have the one as I thought , or does it mean “ new” as in it differs from earlier models?
And we won’t even start the Fargo, Dodge , Maple Leaf , Chevrolet discourse.

still no mention of the poly engine in those adds, perhaps I am dreaming, Again.

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Originally Posted by scarry

Reading that add about a seventy year old vehicle,seems it was probably better sealed for wet weather than a 6 yr old Defender[bighmmm]

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And plenty of parts readily available for them through Dodge and associated Chrysler Corp clubs and aftermarket suppliers in the USA. Even speed equipment such as high comp. cylinder heads and pistons multi -carburetor manifolds and exhaust headers. Get a Hemmings Motor News and look at all the ads. Try that at your Land Rover dealer. My local one won't stock parts for anything made before they got the franchise. Mind you Ford, Toyota, Honda and others declare any vehicle more than about 7-8 years old "obsolete" and don't stock parts.

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Originally Posted by goingbush

It was on Facebook Marketplace . Untapped resource . 1700km away though , still could not pass it up.

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If I had seen that I would have had it, not you.[happycry]

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Originally Posted by Bigbjorn

A friend from Kansas City sent me an e-mail to tell me he had a crash on I80 near Des Moines on his way home from the Miller-Offy Club meet at Milwaukee. He said he was doing the speed limit 80 mph, with the cruise control set and overtaking a Lincoln Navigator when the Lincoln blew out a front tyre, turned 90 degrees left into the side of Ken's ford pickup resulting in a wild out of control ride down the median riding the crash cable and between the two of them taking out 3/8 mile of support posts. To his surprise the Highway Patrol gave him a ticket for out of date tyres. The date stamp says they are 9+ years old. Michelin with 50% tread left. He had never before heard of such a regulation.

This begs the question. Do we have such a rule here in Oz?

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An update. The car (Ford V10 pickup) was written off by the insurer. The crash was 110 miles east of Des Moines on I80. The insurer arranged towing into Des Moines but no further. Ken has bought the wreck at salvage value and needs to get it to Lee's Summit in Missouri to a smash repairer. He has arranged with an Omaha towie to pick it up when they have a truck returning to Omaha through Des Moines and bring it to KC via I80, Atlantic, Marysville, St. Jo. for a flat fee of $500. He says the towies are ethnic Hispanic and his 'phone screen should have sub-titles for dealing with them. I thought this was a bit rich coming from someone whose mid-west accent is sometimes so thick that the same could be said about him. He does have trouble with my Oz accent and idiom.