Perth Truck show 2011

G'day well last weekend I grabbed three nevilles and off we went to Perth Town, for the Perth Truck & Trailer show which was held in the Perth Convention centre. And what a ripper time we had just poping around having a gander at some real beaut Trucks, and ofcause the first place to have a gander was my favourite mob.... MACK! This little number is known as the Trident which has a 12.8 litre 500-535hp under the hood, and most important is that it's a bloody ripper to have a look at.... isn't she beautiful! And the back end is just as good looking hay, and you can't say that about some sheilahs hay.










Then we came to one of Australia's work horses when it comes to trucks, a bloody ripper freightliner with up to 600 horses under the bonnet. And it's also in Sarahs favourite colour.... Fremantle Purple!!





'oooooommmmmm more power!' like Tim Taylor would say and ofcause theres my little princess, when the other two ratbags were jumping in and out of trucks there was my little tomboy looking at diesel engines... what a little princess!









Now isn't she Beautiful!








I'd hate to have to wash and polish this little number, do you like the paint job on the hood.










Now theres a beaut clown hay.... and the paint job isn't bad either!!!









What a ripper Cat.... Caterpillar that is, there just arrived on the scene in Australian bush roads. It has a beaut 550hp heart and a Roadranger gearbox aaahhhhh (bit of truck talk there), with its 1850 ft lb (2509Nm) of torque available,it has plenty in reserve and copes well with hauling the 58 tonne B-double around the Aussie countryside.









Now okay it's not a Mack or even a Kenworth but for a jap truck it's not to hard on the eye hay, and as for the kiddies it's just a beaut piece of metal to jump into. This Hino is the 700 and has a 2.9 litre, common rail, turbo / intercooled, OHC diesel engine which also has power windows!!! Now thats impressive! And as you can see it got Jackos thunbs up, but between you and me it's still jap crap.... but then again it could be a shittie Scania!











Then we came to the star of the show 'MACK' which is the reknown Transporter in the Cars movies, which is the main reason the kiddies wanted to come here today.






The semitrailer of Mack the transporter folds out to reveal a world of entertainment zones and themed activity stations for the kiddies, theres a slot racing table and Doc Hudson's driver training track (which I was told by the kiddies it's for little kiddies... not big kiddies like them). And as you can see the nevilles had to queue up for a race on the computer game that is inside the trailer, it was the Cars PS3 Racing championships.







And just the record Jacko won the race with Harrison coming in a close second, and the little tomboy came in a long last... sorry i've been told it was third (sorry).








See ya Mack.












Then we come to the Truck with the best paint job on show and it's a huge old Peterbilt at that,
this is a big old American Texas unit built just like the old trucks in yesteryears. Now this is what trucks should look like, big mean son-of-a-bitches in your face piece of metal.... something that fills your rear vision mirror when your at the trafic lights!
And this isn't just your normal Peterbilt that runs around the countryside, this is one with probably the best paint jobs i've ever seen (next to the RMWilliams truck).








'Such is life'












Theres me little princess driving a big rig..... Becki Mathrews eat ya heart out!














And yet another beaut freightliner.








Oh and back to my old fav Mack, and this one is called the Burke n' Wills truck.









Now isn't she just a little ripper!















Talking of beaut things isn't this one of the best looking bull bars you could cast the old eyes on, you just can't beat an old Western Star.







Truckie Harry... you never know if he fails at school and doesn't want to load trucks all day with his old man, then maybe he too could be wearing a blue singlet and scareing the shit out of Getz drivers! (lucky bugger)






But everything good has to end at some time and our time had run out, considering we had walked around twice, and had been in there for over FOUR HOURS!!! crikey the misses will have the shit's, but shes only going to work so not like it's anything important... strewth now i'm even talking like a truckie!