Category: Playing with trucks

Like I said at the end of the last post, my old Kenworth wasn’t a purebred. As I made some enquiries, I found that it had quite an interesting history that was closely related to the building of a major highway in BC, the Hope-Princeton Hwy. As I was sandblasting the chassis and the cab,…

And there it was, almost ready to go to work. Except for a few things that needed to be done, and at the top of the list were new rear ends so it could go faster that 47 MPH. I did take it to a lot of shows, and even won a couple of trophies,…

Good, quality body work takes time and isn’t cheap. If it hadn’t been for Bill teaching me how by letting me sand a lot of his projects to help offset my cost, it would have easily run into many thousands of dollars. It was painfully slow, but a year after we started, it was ready…

Dads shop was on the Fraser River in New Westminster BC, and next door was Benson Shipyards. Old man Bert Benson took a shine to me and said I could use a space near his marine ways to do any sand blasting I needed doing after hours. He even supplied the sand. So, as I…

I was 20 and it was after I’d worked for my dad’s marine diesel repair business, in the Arctic Ocean rebuilding the generator engine on an ocean dredge, and I found myself with a lot of money for the first time in my life. I was driving a 3 ton truck, delivering soap, when one…

What can I say, ever since I was a boy, big trucks fascinated me. Other kids were into bikes, cars and stuff but there was something about the big rigs that captured my imagination. When I was in my early teens I discovered truck models. The fact that I could build my dream rigs in…