FORMER WORKSHOP WORKHORSE set for Sunday drives...
It’s a very happy fortieth birthday to this month’s Member Ride — a 1981 Holden WB Kingswood ute. The ute belongs to Capricorn Member Warren Rabey, of Warren’s Tyre and Brake Service in Morley, in Perth’s inner eastern suburbs. With Holdens set to disappear from Australia’s roads over the coming years, it’s always great to see such a well-kept vehicle in near original condition. Warren said the ute was originally owned by the Shire of Kulin, in the eastern Wheatbelt of Western Australia. When the council was done with it, they sold it to a local farmer. “He decided he didn’t need three licenced vehicles on the farm, so he gave it to his son to sell,” Warren said. This was in 1996, the year Warren opened his workshop. “I was looking for a ute for my business and I found this one,” he said. “As I was driving out there I kept thinking this would be rubbish, but when I got there it didn’t look too bad, so I bought it.”
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