Wild RIDE

“ I t’s a Kenworth! All the cool kids have Kenworths!” That’s the quintessentially Australian response I got from Andrew Rackemann when I questioned him about his purchase of a beat up old 1975 W-model Kenworth eight years ago.

With a history of buying old tractors to fix up and show, and a realisation that the police get a little antsy about towing historic tractors round on a car trailer, Andrew was able to justify his purchase of an old paddock-parked truck to his lovely wife Gabrielle (though the purchase of the truck did have to wait until Andrew took Gabrielle for a well-deserved holiday first. A promise is a promise.) The fact the parked-up paddock truck was a 1975 W-model Kenworth that just happened to have a 692 in it, well that was no accident. Nope, that’s exactly what Andrew had been looking for, for many years, because once again, in Andrew’s words,