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    KEY TO KHAKI COLLECTION

    Aug 11, 2019 4 minutes

    KEVIN PURCELL’S passion for military vehicles dates back to World War II. The former farmer and spraying and earthmoving contractor was born in 1941 and says he clearly remembers waving at convoys of army trucks during his early childhood. “The soldiers used to wave madly,” he says.

    In 1953 his father bought a WWII Blitz Chev for the family farm at Yaven Creek, which is 28km south-west of Adelong, New South Wales. The Blitz carted cattle to the Adelong saleyards and took logs to the Purcell’s sawmill. And in the summer Kevin’s father put a water tank on the back

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