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    Beauty BLACK

    Sep 01, 2019 4 minutes
    Words and images | Warren Aitken
    it's got the old school cool looks

    ‘The truck that Facebook built’. ‘A mechanic’s hobby’. ‘Far from original’. All these could have been appropriate titles for this story, as all of them sum up exactly what Kirk Raabe’s 1972 W925 is all about. This beautiful black beast of a truck is built with bargains from Facebook. It is the after-hours work of a busy mechanic and it is definitely not in original condition.

    But summing up why Kirk Raabe actually has this stunning black rig is best left to another Kenworth W-model tragic, Andrew Rackemann: “He just wanted to be in the cool kids club!”

    While I’m sure most of you would much rather just look at the photos

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