Ken McKay and Jon Parker in 2024.
The Harden Historic Truck and Tractor Club will be holding their 11th annual show at the Murrumburrah showground. The show is set for Sunday the 9th of March.
The Times sat down with president Ken McKay who relayed to the paper how the day will pan out. Ken has been president for the last two years taking over from the previous president Kevin Sharp and the show continues to grow in the number of different features it offers and the different types of vehicles on display. “We set up Saturday and run the show Sunday.”
Ken said “There will be market stalls with trinkets and the usual type of stuff, free face painting for the kids from 9am to 1pm. There will be coffee, ice cream, fairy floss, popcorn as far as I am aware, snow cones and the Pony Club are doing doughnuts. American Chrome have a pan-tech truck coming that sells truck parts and bits and pieces.
“The Historical Society are doing a photographic display in the pavilion, Graham Hill is bringing a collection of peddle cars to display. We have Mogga’s putting up a marquee in the middle of the arena for shade as it can get quite warm out there.”
“There is also a couple of raffles happening on the day. Rotary will be cooking up their bacon and egg rolls, steak sandwiches and the like. There will be a gathering for early entrants that want to camp on Saturday night and we usually get 40 or 50 people. Ken has built on the hard work of Kevin Sharp and been a long time committee member himself. “I’ve been president for two years and Kevin Sharp had been president for 10 years. He did a magnificent job.”
When asked what motivates Ken to keep going he responded: “Getting together with people that are like-minded and the same sort of ideas. We have a monthly meeting and sometimes there’s not a lot of people there, but we all get together and have a cup of coffee and a bit of a talk when we are finished. It’s a way of keeping a lot of our vehicles on the road as you have to be part of a club to have historic rego. We have a few members that just do that. We don’t condone it, but we tolerate it because sometimes it’s good to have some numbers.”
“We work within an 80km radius so people don’t start ringing up from Sydney and want to register a truck and things like that. It’s such an advantage to be able to have the system that we have got with the historic vehicles. It’s about $48 a year to register and you get a 60-day log book and you can put the club events on top of that again. Vehicles have to be over 30 years old.”
Head to the Showgrounds on Sunday to see all the rigs, big and small.
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