My Dad was the MAN agent for central NSW around that time and I should know but I don't, a little voice in my head said 692TTA but there is a lot of voices in my head and all they do is babble garbage, but they would have been a nice thing my MAN from the same era was a lovely truck.
I remember one retro fitted with an 871 and another with a 903. Not a bad truck for the time, comfortable ride, a sleeper cab, some decent HP and a RR gearbox.
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During the 1980s I was selling solid rubber tyres for forkleifts and under ground mining equipment. One of my customers was Ipec at Villawood. Once a month I would rock up and have a yarn with the service manager Robert and we would talk trucks mainly as all the forks had good tyrers. One time he took me into a room with a wall full of round white cardboard discs about the size of CDs. These were tachograph cards. I saw them while being drunk in Europe while travelling about in a Contiki bus but not here at home. There was a pair of pegs right away from all the others and he showed me one which one of the lines left the disc as it did not register that high. Cant remeber if it was speed or RPM. Either way they were 2 trucks that did Sydney to Melbourne.
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When I was doing the story on the IPEC Glen Innes change-over I got to speak to one of the drivers from the MAN era. The same question about whether they were fast was asked and the answer was not as such, however the handling and road holding was such that they never needed to back off through the winding roads of the time.
