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Give it a Bash 1928 Ford Model A

Vintage trucks are restored for many different reasons, often related to some aspect of the owner’s past. Sometimes the truck is a nostalgic reminder of their childhood, or of their working career. Such ‘blast from the past’ trucks usually get...

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A Century Travelled the Australian International Story

Making Inroads During the years before and after WWII International trucks were working on Australian roads. Truck production had started in 1915 in the US. Some of the early models that we used through the 1920s and 30s were the H, F, G and L –...

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Limited Edition Super-Linear II Captain Bligh Built for: Costantino Cartage Australian Bicentennial Year 1988

Ernie Hastas, based in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne, was inspired to build a scale replica of Paul Costantino’s Limited Edition Mack Super-Liner Bicentennial 1988. After noticing the truck on an overpass on the Hume Highway in...

By The VTCM Team

Snowy River Builders S . Salis & Sons Dalgety NSW 1949 ML bedford Truck

I drove past this old girl on a regular basis, sitting in the paddock behind a farmhouse in the village of Dalgety, nsw. She was buried deep in grass and the bonnet was missing. The idea to rescue her eventually got the better of me, and I thought...

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Donny Maclean’s Restored 1979 Kenworth K123

Donny Maclean’s Restored 1979 Kenworth K123

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Ryan McNab 1995 Kenworth W900

Ryan McNab 1995 Kenworth W900

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Hayden Wiffen 2007 Kenworth T904

Hayden Wiffen 2007 Kenworth T904

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Neil Maclean Custom Kenworth Motorhome

Neil Maclean Custom Kenworth Motorhome

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Give it a Bash 1928 Ford Model A

Vintage trucks are restored for many different reasons, often related to some aspect of the owner’s past. Sometimes the truck is a nostalgic reminder of their childhood, or of their working career. Such ‘blast from the past’ trucks usually get...

By The VTCM Team

News and Letters

Old LP Records Found

News and Letters

While searching through some old crates, I came across these old records, in their covers and still wrapped in plastic. I thought readers might enjoy the nostalgia. *Alan Ed - These would bring back some memories for our readers, Alan. Does anyone...

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News and Letters

K.L. McKenzie TO Kimba Roadhouse

News and Letters

I started in the furniture removal business back in the late 1950s, working for several firms before being lucky enough to gain a permanent contract driving for K.L. McKenzie Truck Hire, in Footscray, Victoria. For a little over eight years, I...

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Diamond T Special

Sometimes, there are those moments, when you have to put aside whatever else you are doing and just “follow that truck” like a gangster! It was Sunday morning and I was on my way back home from Bunnings when I spotted an old truck being towed on...

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