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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
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10
9.No rest for the wicked, or
the wickedly cold
10.The show must go on and
the snow must come off