{"id":28006,"date":"2026-03-05T16:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midlandexpress.com.au\/?p=28006"},"modified":"2026-03-05T16:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T05:52:08","slug":"truck-show-draws-wide-range-of-trucks-of-various-ages-and-sizes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/leisure\/2026\/03\/05\/truck-show-draws-wide-range-of-trucks-of-various-ages-and-sizes\/","title":{"rendered":"Trucks from near and far"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>The recent Lancefield Truck Show drew a wide range of trucks of various ages and sizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Held over a full weekend, the show was a meeting point for truck enthusiasts across generations, and those being admitted free if they were aged under 16 encouraged family groups to attend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was live music, a Friday night barbecue for exhibitors, and a dinner on Saturday night. Don Turner drove from the Gold Coast in his 190 International, which he purchased from his father in 1983.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A tremendous workhorse, it has travelled more than 2.3 million miles since Don obtained it and applied sports paint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He made good use of the trip to Lancefield, going to Romsey to collect a semi-trailer to restore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some trucks were driven to Lancefield for more than six hours from the east coast and Gippsland, and for nine hours from South Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lancefield&#8217;s long-time truck and machinery enthusiast, Robert Green, was a co-ordinator for the truck show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He expressed thanks to all who had attended, and to those who worked behind the scenes to make the show a success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ideas for future shows in Lancefield Park will be welcomed.<br><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent Lancefield Truck Show drew a wide range of trucks of various ages and sizes. Held over a full&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":28007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[4932],"class_list":["post-28006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leisure","tag-lancefield-truck-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28009,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28006\/revisions\/28009"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralvic.com\/midlandexpress.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}