Innholdsfortegnelse for Issue 431 i Deals On Wheels Australia

With only 1,000 tickets available for purchase the odds of winning are working in your favour! Yes, that’s right … you could be the proud new owner of a Kenworth Limited Edition Legend 900, valued at $384,000 (including on-road costs) for an investment of just $1,000! The Hepburn Football and Netball Club (HFNC), based in country Victoria, is raffling the Legend 900 (Build #137) and with only 1,000 tickets available for purchase the odds of winning are working in your favour. Modelled on the legendary W-model and introduced in 1991, the T900 with its classic look and style was designed with the versatility to operate in almost any application, and tough enough to stand up to the harsh Australian conditions. Although it has been many years since its production, the…

The floor is light and has a huge load capacity giving maximum flexibility. Brisbane businessman Chris Matheson is a man obsessed with speed and horsepower. He is the quickest man on two wheels in the southern hemisphere, a five-time pro drag racing champion, and is currently on a quest to become the first Australian motorcycle racer to complete 400 metres in under six seconds! He currently holds both elapsed time and speed record on the national circuit in 6.04 seconds at 389km/h (241.8mph) on board a 1,500hp machine known as ‘Nitro Voodoo’. While a lot more sedate, Chris’s other passion is driving his truck nicknamed ‘The Recalcitrant’. At the top level of drag racing, a lot of professional teams travel in style with big rigs and transporters. With championship rounds…

The Isuzu’s great to drive, it has a very good turning circle and it thrives with a full load. Isuzu’s range of Ready to Work tippers is a collection of reliable, technologically-advanced trucks, offering GVMs that span from a car licence-compliant 4,500kg, right up to 10,400kg. The models are a popular choice among construction contractors, tradies, landscapers and council workers. EVOLUTION BUILDING Based in Kellyville Ridge in NSW, Evolution Building is a construction company with class and sophistication. From renovating stately manors, to building modern updates on small urban townhouses, Evolution offers original design options like mosaiced bathrooms with ornamental mirrors and glamorous kitchens that look almost too sleek to deface with a spag bol. If Evolution is intending to appeal to the imagination as well as the senses, it’s…

I don’t buy something ’cause it’s the cheapest. The Gold Coast in Queensland is one of those areas where you never know what you are going to find. From scantily clad meter maids to a lizard man at Ripley’s believe it or not, all the way to a singing Dracula serving dinner or a beginner’s cheese-making class. Yes, the Gold coast has it all. Well, now it has it all, as the rarest of rare has appeared on the roads around the Gold Coast area … a pimped-out UD Quon. The blinged-up UD belongs to D.I.G Earthworks and Civil, a young and extremely busy company based out of Southport, Gold Coast. Shane Grimwood is one half of the team behind the company; his partner in dirt is Michael Douglas. Between…

A Coolpower announces the arrival of a 1978 R Model Mack. Gillian Buckley hears it from the garden of her home at Strathbogie, Victoria. Her daughter Karah hears it too, and so does her granddaughter Lexi. It has been 18 months since Gillian’s husband Brian ‘Buck’ Buckley took the R Model to Emil Barbic and Mario Grosso at Oaklands Junction for restoration. “That was probably the last time he drove a truck,” Gillian says. Brian passed away in April, 2017, six weeks after the restoration began. He was only 60. Gillian didn’t meet Emil and Mario until Brian’s funeral, but she has spoken to them throughout the restoration and she greets them like old friends as they arrive in the Mack. “They’ve been wonderful,” Gillian says. “I couldn’t have done…

This wasn’t the first time Kirby Maxwell had driven his Oshkosh down from the NSW mid north for the Sydney Classic and Antique Truck Show. What he didn’t count on at the 2018 event was meeting up with Bill Koellner, the truck’s original owner from the early 1970s. Bill bought the Oshkosh brand new in 1970, selling it two years later. With the Oshkosh he did quarry work out of Albion Park in the Illawarra region, hauling for Farley & Lewers. “We did the big works up over the mountain up Macquarie Pass and down Kangaroo Valley, and all the power stations down there,” he recalls. A friend mentioned to Bill that an Oshkosh was on show at Penrith. Knowing that the Oshkosh brand is a rare breed in Australia,…

The day was almost done. After a few wrangles parking the B-double in the crowded confines of Sydney Iveco at Eastern Creek, the only things left to do were finish off the log book and jot down a few final trip figures. But it’s funny how the mind works sometimes. Suddenly, spearing out of the cerebral swamp, came this odd thought: maybe, just maybe, ProStar’s passage into the trucking mainstream might evolve along much the same lines as the day just done. Bear with me! It all started early that morning, dark and damp and crowded, with trucks and trailers parked wall-to-wall at the big BP opposite Melbourne Market. It wasn’t much better as we headed up the Hume to Sydney – a miserable, murky morning of gloomy grey clouds…