Tayla Barbeler, from Kingaroy, takes the “Massey Muncher” for a spin down the track

September 22, 2016

Kingaroy & District Vintage Machinery Club members are already thinking about how they can top this year’s rally in 2017.

The 2017  Vintage Machinery Rally will be a special one for the club, as it will be their 20th rally and their fifth at their purpose-built grounds at Butwell Park near Kingaroy Airport.

This year’s rally, held last weekend, featured military equipment as well as the usual array of tractors, big and small; crawlers, bulldozers, stationery engines,  chainsaws, vintage motorbikes, cars and trucks; and farming equipment.

Fans watched displays of  farming implements in action, as well the ever-popular tractor pulls which tests the pulling power of the machines on display.

On Saturday evening, exhibitors and other guests of the club gathered at the clubhouse for a pig-on-the-spit dinner.

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The volunteers from the Kumbia State School P&C were kept busy in the canteen
John Hamilton, from Tambo, and Scott Fisher, from Warwick with Scott’s 1925 PH1060 Crossley
A Ruston & Hornsby stationery engine, one of many vintage engines chugging away in their special enclosure 
The Fordson “Turbo Tornado” does a wheelstand in the tractor pull
Barry Lloyd-Jones, Avondale, and Merve and Calvyn Wake, from Rosedale
Adrian Hose, from Gympie, and Earl Retschlag, from Nanango
1928 A Model Ford converted for use as a milko’s van in the Cooyar area
There was everything at the rally … from the very small … 
… to the very large … such as this ex-Army truck
A Korean War-era Jeep … one of several Jeeps on display in the Military Feature
England’s answer to the Jeep … the Austin Champ

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