Classic American

KEEP ON TRUCKIN'

It seems we can’t get enough of commercial vehicles or patina; this, then must be the ultimate combination of both: a hulking great 1949 International Harvester truck with more character than you can shake a stick at!

Darron Kevern has owned more customised and standard American classics than most of us will have had hot dinners, but what was he to do once he’d exhausted all the popular choices of classic muscle car, restored them and shown them alongside dozens of similar cars? Try something a bit off-the-wall, of course, like a huge 1½-tonne pre-war truck.

Darron bought his 1940 International Harvester D-30 from the States in 2013 after spotting it on eBay. He wasn’t deterred by the fact that it had been sitting

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