OLD MACK A SHOW SURVIVOR

LET’S START with a bit of an admission here. I’ve been really excited about doing this story. I first spotted this awesome-looking F600 at the Gatton Mack Muster back in the day. For those unaware, there used to be a time when we were able to have things called ‘Truck Shows’ – glorious events where people would bring their pride and joy to display. Fans from far and wide would come to appreciate some exquisite machinery. Sharing laughs, taking photos, spilling half the sauce from their dagwood dogs down the front of their Kenworth shirts. It was a simpler time. A happy pre-COVID time.

One of these long forgotten ‘truck show’ events was a Mack Muster up in Queensland. For a ‘bulldog’ fan like me it was heaven. From all around Australia Macks mustered, filling the Gatton showgrounds with bulldogs galore. Among the big-bonneted Bs and sharp Super-Liners was a hard-to-find and immaculately presented cab-over Mack – the old F-600. I grew up with my uncle driving a cab-over Mack back in New Zealand and they are a bit of a rare sight over here in Australia.

So yes, I got a bit stalker-ish, eventually tracking down its owner, George Proctor, and lining him up for a photo shoot and story. I was super keen, then the world went COVID crazy and everything got stalled.

It took a long wait, some