Neville Storey is passionate about the Australian road transport industry having spent the majority of his working life either as an employee behind the wheel or managing his own transport company.

Neville is a staunch follower of the celebrated Kenworth brand, having restored several examples that needed a great deal of mechanical and cosmetic surgery after a lifecycle of hard yakka across the footprint of the Australian on- and off-highway duty cycle. His latest KW project, is a burly 1978 SAR powered by a Cummins 19-litre KT450 serving up 392kW (525hp) ­– but more on that later.

Nev’s father Kevin worked for East Coast Transport, one of the interstate d