New Bloke from Australia

[kaneriley227]

gday lads,
recently got my hands on what i think is a Reo M35, with a OA331 gasoline inline 6 motor, 5 speed transmission. just here to find out whos the best for spareparts and if they ship to Australia
found this truck on another farmers property, sitting in the back of a shed not being used. have sprnt the last few days trying to find others like it over here but not having much luck.
more than likely it was brought over by the US military and stationed at"pine gap" in the 50s as the Australian military have never used the M35 vehicles.
so i may have my hands on a rare gem, and as i only paid $2500 AUD for it, i snapped it up quickly.
will post some pics when i have it in my shed.
cheers

 

[kaneriley227]

 

[Tracer]

Welcome aboard from Nevada USA. Good find and good looking truck, and with right hand drive.

 

[kaneriley227]

yep the right hand drive part amazed me too.. make things alot simpler when I register it to drive on our roads.

 

[Katavic918]

Welcome from Maryland USA. That is a rare truck indeed. Does it run\drive?

 

[Tracer]

yep the right hand drive part amazed me too.. make things alot simpler when I register it to drive on our roads.

If you have time I would love to see a pic or two of the steering box.....thanks.

 

[theeDIZ]

Another welcome from the USA !

 

[Aussie Bloke]

G'day everyone,....


And a big G'DAY from a fellow Aussie,....

What state are you in?

I might be able to bring mine over for a visit.

You will have no problems at all shipping parts into Australia.


Aussie.

 

[kaneriley227]

hey aussie bloke, good to see another one here in Australia.. i was a bit sus there for a while as i could find any on the web in Australia. im located in port lincoln SA. wher you to?

 

[kaneriley227]

If you have time I would love to see a pic or two of the steering box.....thanks.

yep can do as soon as i get it my shed.

 

[kaneriley227]

Welcome from Maryland USA. That is a rare truck indeed. Does it run\drive?

from what the previous owner has told me, it has no brakes. he drive it into the shed 2 yrs ago, when was finished with it. going up there this weekend so hopefully shell start.

 

[kblazer87]

Hello and welcome from southeast Indiana.

 

[elkhtr]

Welcome from Washington state.
Right hand drive gasser deuce, can't be to many of those around.

 

[ageregunner]

Welcome from PA., USA.

 

[Flyingvan911]

Welcome from Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

 

[HMMWV Nut]

Welcome from Forrest, Illinois, USA

 

[Aussie Bloke]

G'day everyone,...

hey aussie bloke, good to see another one here in Australia.. i was a bit sus there for a while as i could find any on the web in Australia. im located in port lincoln SA. wher you to?

I'm next door in Victoria.

You got a great find there.

Would love to see more pictures and any video, maybe while you are getting it started, I'm sure we would all love to see and hear it running,....

I hope you get to fully restore it back to its former glory.



Aussie.

 

[tommys2patrick]

Howdy and Welcome from Colorado! Brakes may not be too hard to fix. If all the parts are there, kits to rebuild the system are readily available. Very interesting truck. Good save mate!

 

[kaneriley227]

Howdy and Welcome from Colorado! Brakes may not be too hard to fix. If all the parts are there, kits to rebuild the system are readily available. Very interesting truck. Good save mate!

awesome to know, yep everything stills on her brake wise, the previous owners told me one brake was leaking., so dunno will know more soon. whos ghe bedt to get rebuild kits from?

 

[kaneriley227]

may have found another one, right next door to the farmer. ive heard a couple storys that the bloke who owned it before the bloke i bought it from, actually had two of them, but used one as a donor vehicle to build a working one. hopefully this is true as the one ive bought doesn't have a tray, so hopefully the other one does... fingers crossed...