Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 416 i Deals On Wheels Australia

Wool classers can tell what kind of year it’s been by just looking at the fibres in a freshly shorn fleece. And scientists can look at tree rings to see how the environment has shaped a tree over the decades of its life. However, it’s not often that you come across an old vehicle that not only still carries the scars of time and toil yet also has an amazingly documented history. I’d be tempted to cut through the chassis rails of this extremely rare 1959 model B85 SX Mack and count the tree rings myself, but I reckon owner Des Hockley would have a slight issue with that! Everywhere you look on this truck it bears the scars and sports modifications acquired over its journey through the formative years…

The 2017 Heritage Truck Show, held at the Brisbane trucking hub of Rocklea, played host yet again to an impressive array of vintage trucks and memorabilia, giving the public a glimpse into bygone trucking days. Despite the torrential rain forecasted, on the day you couldn’t spot a cloud in the sky and this elevated the mood for all – especially people wanting to showcase their shiny bangers! One truckie stopped Deals on Wheels and told us he didn’t even bother washing his truck because he assumed it’d be pouring. “Mate, take a photo on the other side, I thought we’d have a tonne of rain to wash the dust off!” he jokes. The event saw nearly 150 trucks roll into the Rocklea Showgrounds, from B-model Macks through to a schmick-looking…

Razorback rebel, Ted ‘Greendog’ Stevens, has copped a lot of abuse since he instigated the Razorback Blockade in April 1979. He hopes his recently self-published book, Razorback – the Real Story, will set a few things straight. “Hopefully it stops a lot of the bullshit and gossip that went on after,” Ted says. “People believed it was done for ulterior motives. It wasn’t.” We are sitting at Ted’s kitchen table at his home in Diggers Rest, Victoria. The 38 years since Razorback have left their mark on Ted’s health. He suffered a stroke in 2013, glaucoma is affecting his eyesight, and he is undergoing tests to explain recent weight loss. But in many ways Ted is still the tough-talking truckie he was back in 1979 when he and his mates…