For this truck enthusiast, “The Night Train” is a fitting nickname — a full-time train driver by trade who spent years behind the wheel of semi-trailers before swapping highways for rail lines, without ever losing his love of trucks. In this episode he walks through the history and ground-up restoration of his 1986 Kenworth W924 on six-rod suspension, a 90-tonne-rated beast that was originally ordered new but never collected, passing through several owners before finally finding its forever home around 2012.
Restoring the Kenworth W924 to Factory Spec
Determined to honour the truck’s original heritage, he tracked down the factory build sheet and restored it faithfully to spec — new chassis rails, correct-era gauges, period-accurate lighting, and the original paint codes, with no LEDs, no stainless steel, and no shortcuts taken. The result is a genuine rolling time capsule of what Australian roads looked like in the mid-1980s, and a reminder of how much care goes into keeping this era of trucking history alive.
Finding a factory build sheet for a 40-year-old Kenworth W924 is no small feat, and it’s what separates this restoration from a typical repaint. Every spec on the truck can be traced back to how it left the factory in 1986, which is exactly the kind of detail The Aussie Truckers Channel likes to dig into.
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