ROAD TRIP TO COOLY

CHRIS THOROGOOD AND FRIENDS CAST THE WINTER BLUES ASIDE WITH A FUN-FILLED ROAD TRIP TO COOLY ROCKS ON

Cooly does indeed rock, but sometimes the journey is every bit as rad as the destination

Rcars – is there OAD trips with mates in old my fair share during anything better? I’ve been on they’ve been a bit my Street Machine career, but when Leon Davies thin on the ground of late. So a trip from of Big L’s Chop Shop fame proposed Cooly Rocks On, I Geelong to Coolangatta for his ’48 F1 pick-up was keen as. Leon had earmarked Nicknamed Trucky, the as his conveyance of choice. including Alice F1 has been just about everywhere, Springs for Red Centrenats. ’59 Chev wagon, but I Telfo suggested I take my its ability to get me to wasn’t totally confident about anyway. Leon stepped Queensland and back. Not yet, F100 to drive. Unlike the in and kindly offered his ’65 as a small-block Chev, ’48 – which has such niceties the ’65 is pretty close to overdrive auto and airbags – 300ci six-pot with threespeed how Henry intended. It’s a included. Name? Bruce. Hammond and Sean I looked around for a co-pilot has his own radical Ford stuck his hand up. Now, Sean ’57 Ranchero – but pick-up in the shed – a stunning with me would make for a he decided riding shotgun much more relaxing holiday. puzzle was Aaron The final piece of our convoy Chevy pick-up, dubbed Gregory and his famous ’51 a highly modified Rodeo Memphis Hell. Slammed over injected Holden 5.0-litre, chassis and powered by an Leon’s trucks are crusty. Aaron’s truck is as flash as the four-speed auto for He’d recently swapped out the trip was the perfect a fun T56 cog-swapper, so run. opportunity for a shakedown go wrong? I’ll take you Three trucks – what could over the next 10 pages, through the answer to that my co-pilot Sean: “What but I’ll leave the last word to the destination – the a week. It wasn’t really about have on the road with old laughs and adventures you just something everyone cars and good friends are should experience. It’s life fuel!”