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Another feature of the PKY Truck Beauty

Championship is the show magazine handed

out on the Saturday after the prize giving. Every

truck entered gets photographed (a task made

difficult when the snow came) and the magazine

is printed with all the winners acknowledged.

Like every show, ever run, anywhere, there is

always a level a discourse, complaints of politics

and general questions of ‘how the F did he win’

that follows. It’s only natural. For a truck fan

though the winners and grinners were irrelevant.

The PKY Truck Championship is a whole new

level of shine. If you’ve ever thought about

going, if you’ve ever been tempted, take

Nike’s approach – ‘Just Do It!’ The people were

extremely accommodating and the flights, hell

it’s no worse than trying Pennant Hills Road on a

long weekend Friday.

The United States of America may be the home

of liquid cheese and deep fried everything but

they know how to put on a show!

in each truck. I word it that way because quite

frankly the standard of the big rigs involved

means the judges really do have to find the

things the guys didn’t do well rather than what

they did.

The categories are similar to over here, drivers

opting into whichever suits them best including

interior and engine bay categories as they see fit.

One of the things that does make the North

American shows different from Oz though is

there is a distinction between working trucks

and show trucks. Several of the trucks shining

brightest are built purely for show and for the

show circuit. While they turn heads, the overall

PKY Truck Beauty Championship winner must be

a working truck.

The outdoor rave party that is Wednesday’s light

show is when the judges begin their arduous

task, which they complete on the Thursday. Prize

giving is in one of the seminar halls on Saturday

morning.

The overall PKY

Truck Beauty

Championship

winner must be a

working truck.

TRUCK SHOWS

9

10

9.No rest for the wicked, or

the wickedly cold

10.The show must go on and

the snow must come off