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    MICK’S FIVE ★ STAR WORKSHOP

    Jul 21, 2021 5 minutes
    MICK MCCRUDDEN

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    Locked Bag 12, Oakleigh, 3166. Yep, he’s gonna fix you up in no time…

    Knockers and Collectors

    Dave Morley’s recent menion of the Commer Knocker raised my brow. I drove one for a short while.

    Back when trucks were not as big or as powerful as they are today, they ran these interstate. However I just drove one around town.

    It had a unique twostroke engine running two crankshafts, the pistons came together in a reverse boxer set up forming their own combustion chambers.

    Unlike the lovely bellowing howl of a Detroit ‘Jimmy’ diesel, the poor ol’ knocker had a raspy note which sounded more like a sort of fractured fart.

    With no syncros, if you missed a gear on your double

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