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    BUILT FOR BEER MONEY

    May 12, 2021 5 minutes
    Ben Dillon writes

    LOOKING FOR the right truck to fit your needs is tough enough, but for the O’Brien family their search was made all the more difficult by the tyranny of distance. Based in Normanton, Queensland, near the Gulf of Carpentaria, the O’Brien’s remit was simple enough; find a truck tough enough to pull a set of side-tippers and make it look schmick to promote the business. Oh, and it had to be done and delivered in a timeframe measured in days, not weeks or months. Simple, right?

    Enter Jon Kelly, known for his hit TV show , who is no stranger to turning out a top-looking truck on short notice, but when Brenda called him up on an ex-Curley Cattle Truck T658 he had for sale, even he knew it would be a tough test. We can imagine the conversation, the sharp inhalation of

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