Well that's very cool, but I have to issue a correction.
I never got the paperwork with the car; I queried it with the previous owner, Scotty Pol who advised he couldn't find it.
A few years later, we connected on Facebook and he advised he reckons that the rats in his shed ate the paperwork...
So all I've got is anecdotal evidence! You see, I rang Bruce A Ruston Signwriters not long after I bought the car and spoke to the current owner, Dave. He advised that he started as an apprentice in the 80s and the company was still using the utes then.
He reckons they sold them in the mid 1990s. One was in 'better' condition; I believe that is the one bought by Peter Areskog. Peter backed that story up as he said he chose his ute because it was better, although now their conditions are about the same as he daily drove it himself for many years.
The one in 'worse' condition had ticked over nine times and Dave from Bruce A Ruston said the paperwork to prove it went to the new owner, which was Scotty Pol, so that's a shame.
Dave did mention that they rebuild the suspension a couple of times, but I think they only rebuilt the motor once in the time Dave worked for them.
I recently found Bruce A Ruston Signwriters on Facebook; lo and behold, their profile pic is a shot from this very site, the one time Peter Areskog and I met up to get our utes together!
I sent a message via Facebook and didn't get a reply until just the other day. I'll post his reply later. My bloody internet is bloody slow because it's 2017 and we live in third world country.
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