OREGON ARTEFACT
“The engine delivers power to the wheels via a five-speed Spicer crash gearbox.”
THE ONSET OF COVID-19 has no doubt driven a surge in the already booming historical truck movement over the past couple of years. The preference for staying at home and limiting social interactions on any sort of scale has undoubtedly led to much more ‘shed time’ for those mid-projects and resulted in some others previously relegated to the back burner for some time slowly but surely rolling their spider web-covered cabs out from their dusty caverns of ‘blokedom’.
Even so, with so many projects on the go, I really don’t know where Charlie Borg, current custodian of this 1958 Kenworth, finds the time.
Among Charlie’s other toys and projects are a White Road Commander named ‘Lizzy’, a Kenworth SAR, a Kenworth S2 in the build, a restored 1956 Austin that was originally a Resch’s brewery truck, a W-model Kenworth and a White 3000 part way through restoration.
Upon approaching Charlie’s 1958 Kenworth – official model classification CC925C – my curiosity was immediately piqued by the inscription on the door – ‘Lebanon Truck Service’. As many would, my mind immediately thought of that far off Middle
