Nottinghamshire based Darron Wilson has been on the rally scene for about eight years, but has recently been showing a couple of contrasting vehicles. The first is 988UXU, a 1950 Mack LJT that spent its working life in America and which we’ll look at in a full feature next month. This time though, our subject is Darron’s other heavyweight, namely his 1976 Scammell Crusader.
PGW883R has actually been on the rally/preservation circuit for a number of years. In Darron’s ownership it has, however, been treated to a full restoration to, as our pictures show, an extremely high standard. It may not, though, be immediately familiar, as in previous ownership it wore another livery, and carried registration Q83VOE.
The Crusader started life as a tractor unit, and was converted
