LIVING THE DREAM
It was the holiday of a lifetime. To celebrate their 40th wedding anniversary, in October ‘17, Dave and Liz Watson flew out via Las Vegas (and returned via San Francisco) to enjoy two weeks in the Pacific islands of Honolulu and Maui. Things don’t come more magical than seeing the likes of Hawaii but to Dave, the main reason he’ll never forget this trip was it also led to him finding his dream machine.
As a youngster, he had ridden with his dad (John) on many occasions in a Dodge K1050 four-wheel tipper which was a great revenue earner for the family haulage firm of Watson Bros. Dave recalls the many joyous hours he spent polishing the great little load carrier and while it eventually ended its days (like many other commercial vehicles) being cut up for scrap, it left an indelible mark on his memory.
True, as fleet engineer of the Broughty Ferry based haulier Harry Lawson Ltd, in recent years he’s got a huge amount of pleasure in bringing back to life both a ‘68 Atky eight-wheel tanker and a ‘53 Albion Chieftain flat. But both these demanding projects had been on behalf of his boss ‘Young Harry’ and Dave felt that it was perhaps time to carry out such a restoration project – but just for himself.
That desire prompted him to put out the word that he was searching for such a late ‘60s Dodge K1050 16 tonner and it was in Hawaii that such a vision appeared. True, that was just an image on his mobile phone that
