Restored Australian Custom Trucks archive stories, clearly identified by original issue and publication period.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words by Staff Writer. Photography by Easton Chang. Two black Freightliner Coronado 114s carrying Harley-Davidson styling were among the more unusual collaborations ACT featured in Issue 2. They took two strong American…
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words by Anthony John-Pier. Photography by C5 Photography. Aaron Pendlebury’s Volvo FH16 showed that custom truck culture was not confined to conventionals and cab-over Kenworths. The heavy-haulage Volvo combined Scandinavian engineering with…
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words and photography by Enver Djemal. For GRS Towing founder Barry Hunt, buying a tow truck straight off the shelf rarely made sense. His fleet was built around the work it had…
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words and photography by Riley Blue. Jaimie Kent took a 1999 Western Star that had once hauled scrap into Port Kembla Steel Works and rebuilt it as a heavy recovery truck for…
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Words and photography by Chris Smith. A polished bullbar can look simple once it is bolted to the front of a truck. ACT’s visit to AJ’s Total Truck Gear at Torrington, near…
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Jon Kelly’s Western Star 6900 Butch Cassidy combined heavy-haul specification, PJs Custom paint and HHA’s in-house fabrication.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Steve Lawler reflects on ten years of SLS Group, his 1983 Kenworth display truck and the custom work that grew from a single job.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Mike and Judy Oliver’s Peterbilt 388 brought custom paint and polished detail to working road-train duty out of Cloncurry.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 2 (2013)
Anthony Latorre’s green K200 went from new truck to Castlemaine show winner in two months, with custom work by Thorpe and paint by Transart.
Originally published in Australian Custom Trucks, Issue 19 (2019)
Everything Region Peak owner Brian Harper does has meaning and purpose, including a Kenworth T909 honouring his father, Harold Francis Harper.