As a Canadian truck driver I'm really enjoying your videos, been to Europe dozens of times and always wondered about the ins and out of the European trucks, thanks for the great videos and keep up the great work.
You thank us for wacthing your video, and we thank you for such amazing content, love to watch your reviews... Of course the old Scania sounds better, as you said, due the new regulations, the new trucks are sounding quieter, it sucks dude...
A very few 140 trucks with the non-turbo engines were made. These engines were more common in buses. And didn't it have only around 265hp?? The turbocharged 11 litre i6 engine had from 280 to 320 hp in the 110 model.
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@@cobra3289 I heard about some Scanias being imported into there. While I’m sure they are good trucks, I can only imagine the costs of getting spare parts in case of a breakdown.
Best bonneted truck I ever drove still have fond memories. Lots of power back in the day, couple of companies would put RoadRanger 13 speeds in them. The room in the intetior & flat floor absolutely walk all over any bonneted American prime. All round vision was excellent & that noise was absolutely fantastic. Drove for Riverbank Stockfeeds & they had one in immaculate condition pride of the fleet. Victoria Australia. Used to drive to Yarram all up 45 tons with a pneumatic tanker. Going up Gormadale Hill through the Strezilinki Rangers early hours of those summer morning the Scania was on hands & knees but she sounded awesome. These days trucks are so quite & boring miss that T 143 best truck ever even entering & exiting the cab so so easy Louis Kats Australia
In Australia we call them "bonneted" trucks but commonly known as the gumboot. Notice the large turntable, that will be 90mm pin for triple road train work. The towing eye on the rear frame is for moving dolley's around. A dolley connects two or more trailers together. Bonnets are preferred as there is more between the driver and what ever road kill they hit.
143M T-Series manual V8 Scania with stacked exhausts .. they just don't make trucks like this anymore. It's almost like a unicorn, too legendary to exist in the real world.
They were quite popular in Australia in the 1980s - 1990s because they weren’t all that expensive, but they died out after that because they weren’t all that reliable with the weights we haul over here in Australia and parts were expensive. Everyone called them the “footy boot” because they looked like a football boot I suppose. You do see the very occasional one still working so I don’t know what happened to the rest of them, maybe they ended up in Ireland lol. All our trucks over here have heaps of fuel and bull bars and no tachographs. You can tell it once pulled roadtrains because of the dolly pull on the back, probably the truck was rated for two trailers @ 79 tonnes GCM.
gm16v149 I think you got things the wrong way round, they were probably expensive, they are a manufactured Truck, not a kit truck like the American brands, and sold in very small numbers due to small population of Australia, a small dealer network. Scania are known world wide as the bench mark in Quality and durability.
@@gm16v149 Maybe Scania sent the Monday morning built trucks to Australia, ROW got the quality trucks. Russia built the Lada for 30 years? Russians swear by them.
Some scania genuine parts are insanely expensive. i work at a scania dealer as a practician and a repair kit for a retarder costs around 500 usd, and the repair kit is only a bunch of gaskets and other minor stuff
Ozzy spec Scania on Irish roads would be sight to see, compared to the Euro trucks they run over there, can remember 143's running interstate down the east coast and across to the west, love em. But the Mack V8 with straight pipes sounds better.
Best truck ever to be manufactured drove one myself in the ninetees.T143H Topline.The day your potence fails start up one of these and your problem is gone.
This is THE TRUCK from all the trucks you filmed. Manual transmission no EGR, no DPF, no ad blue... The best truck you ever filmed. I got myself a 1995 Freightliner FLD 120 with a Detroit series 60 and I'm driving across USA. I love pre emissions trucks and manual transmissions. New trucks...junks
Hi 👋 Stavros Thankyou for your tour of the Scania V8 .. With it's work In Australia 🇦🇺 Then It's new career in Ireland 🇮🇪..1.200.000.0 Kilometers traveled it's ready to keep working hard for many years yet ! Your Enthusiasm ((😄)) Is refreshing.. GodBless
hi starvos i have the 142 H T line v8 scania tractor unit 97 ex aussie line haul brought here in New Zealand as line haulage.3 owners before me have owned it for 10 years now in restoration mode great truck beautifull sound the old v8,and spacious cab, will put it on you tube when finished.thanks tom,
Was gonna say that would have come from Australia - the dead giveaway for me was the rubber mudguards over the drive axles! The Off/On switch would be for the driving lights on the bullbar
Funny! Before he even said it was originally sold in Australia i just thought to myself how it looked very distinctively Aussie set up. Funny where stuff ends up. Nice to see it back here again
Just the toughest truck for the tough remote areas of the continent it came from,, great show case for the fella who bought the truck does he haul it or show it 🤔🤔🤔☘️☘️☘️ mad max 😡😡 pity the first car brake checks that truck
What a super truck these were,fantastic build quality and design and their performance and reliability is beyond question. Scania were and still are the Rolls Royce of the truck industry,they are the bench mark other truck makers should aim for. Their not cheap to buy but they do what it says on the tin and are a great investment, they are warm and comfortable in winter and cool in summer and everyone I have driven has been top notch for reliability, if you can afford it always buy Scania.
Gareth Ifan .You and me are on the same page with Scania, their probably the best truck in Europe without a doubt, the V8 is the best V8 made I have driven Mercs, Deutz and Seddons with that Perkins 540 V8 which should have had zips on the cylinder heads because of the number of head gaskets they blew and none of them had any balls on hills. None of that Nonsence with Scania they pull like a train and have reliability like no other.
SuperOMARKO , Never been in truck sales in my life but have driven for a few company's who have operated Scanias and that's where I have gained all my experience from, I was an owner driver who foolishly bought a Leyland which forced me out of business with its unreliability and costs of repairs.
Scania trucks have never been built in the US. And the US import restrictions and taxes stop them from being imported to the US - unless they're at least 25 years old.
I guess you never get a proper answer to that. Some people like Scania and some people like Volvo. I think they aren't so different, it's just about smaller details.
The digits 14 in the model number stays for the 14.2 (not 14.5) litre V8, from the 140 in 1969 until the 144 in around 2000, when it was replaced with the 15.6 litre DC16 engine in the 164 model.
The T-Series could have been easily sold in America to those with conventional addict and cabover hater. Those Scania V8 can easily kick Cummins N14 in the arse
@@mariusandersson1639 Scania has defined 3 different duty classes: M Medium - transport on surfaced and well maintained roads. H Heavy duty - transports on poorly maintained surfaced roads or well maintained unsurfaced roads. E Extra heavy duty - transport off-road or on poorly maintained unsurfaced roads.
Hi Stavros I am new to your channel. Top quality video! Back where I came from (Brazil) the Scania 111 , 112, 113 142 still active on our motorways. I grew up watching these giants flying over the asphalt near my house. I am not a professional driver but I love trucks. Back home we say that if you are a professional driver or have a great passion for trucks.... You don't have blood in your veins.... You have DIESEL. Keep up the good work.
What a truck wonderland there is.. Have you heard of an old Mitsubishi Fuso V8 engines? They sounds good too.. Fitted on older trucks and buses in the 80's till 90's..
I must be a North American truck driver when I laughed when he said "you have your long gear stick there". That's a short-throw shifter over here. You have to practically sit on the floor to use one, lol.
Hi, can trucks without tachometer still be driven in Europe? Sorry for asking, I'm completely new to these, I just passed my CE licence! Kind regards, Dan George
Why do they have a remote control for the axle lift? In Scandinavia I'm used to a switch at the dash, which controls the lift of the axle. If it were a hooklift I would've understood it better. The sound of that V8 was porn and the truck is super nice!
well ,,, its on the same island ,,, technically part of the uk , but with brexit and borders , who really knows ,,, either way its a fine truck , ive restored a few 1 series up here ,,, ive a friend with half a dozen or more ,,,, from 110 to 143 , and a few in the middle a couple of fh volvos , a fh16 with a 91tonnes hiab on it , and another as a heavy recovery , and spare scania cab sitting on the shelf , granted , its the next restoration job . theres a rebuilt v8 scania engine sitting on the floor , and a spare chassis laying in the back of the shed for it too.
beautiful 14,2 litres v8.max 530hp..old beast for australian market...donaldson airfilter,double diff with steel leafspring.rear axles is on highway type 11,5 mtons/axle...fender is rubber...
Do you know that Scanias with the model numbers 145 and 146 actually have existed? LT145 was the Extra Heavy Duty version of the 140 and LT146 was the same version of the 141. All of these had long hoods.The letters M, H and E was introduced with the 142 model in 1980. So the successor of the 146 was the 142E. Only 114 units of the LT145 (1975 - 1976) and 313 units of the LT146 (1976 - 1980) were made so they were pretty rare. (Source: Björn-Eric Lindh: Die Fahrzeuge von Scania, 1992)
These trucks were known as the 'Gumboot' Scanias here in Australia. There was also a few customised daycabs back in the day with big aftermarket bunks.
Beautiful truck to drive! In my opinion still the best trucks until you get to the new series Scania I had one for 2 weeks couldn’t wait to get rid of it
I would like to see them here in Canada. We got rid of cab overs when you phased out the bull nose. It could be a way to bring them back to the market.
wow- i wish every australian and european trucker could drive my KW t660 with an 86" studio sleeper. 13 speed ,600 hp with 2050 lbs torque . after a day in my rig you would consider all these eu trucks just yard dogs made to shuttle trailers to and from the docks
Scania rule the road here in Australia we have all American and European Scania kill Cummins and Detroit on the hills and the turning circle ride comfort they can't be beaten
I gave up driving trucks 10 years ago now, I drove a few Scania’s and in my opinion they were dreadful and proberly the worse trucks I ever drove, but I would still loved to have driven a v8 which I never got the chance to do.
You know...seeing how this truck was brought from Australia just made me imagine how cool would be a video with a Mack Superliner, powered by the mighty E9 V8. Sadly, I suppose these aren't available in Ireland, not even a single unit?
in scania 12speedgearbox: c=crawlerspeed same is 18speed eaton fuller low-low speed and low-h-l speed...consequence :scania gearbox is 13 forward and 2 reverse.scania retarder is very strong...50 tonns no problem
There is just something about the sound of a V8 engine! Diesel or petrol. Nothing else including 10 or 12 cylinders get close!! Unique. & the 143 wins outright.
I drive right now a 1992 143H with no engine brake (its damage) and without retarder. Still working in Chile. The sound it's amazing. I hope could drive an S580 to fell real power.
Man that T Cab Scanny is the real deal. Shame you couldn't take her out. Was that because there was no tacho or was it other reasons? You don't have to specify, of course, just curiosity. That S580 looked the absolute business with her smashing decals. Love the videos Stavros. Yer some man for one man. PS will the clown be making an apperance again? :D
