Callingall collectors: Aardvark for sale
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hat is claimed to be the only Kenworth Aardvark in Britain is up for sale for £38,000 complete with a Momma and Poppa living quarters cab or £32,000 with a 1.2m sleeper cab. It belongs to John Goodreid, former Intertrail boss and founder of newly formed truck rental firm Go-Truck of Four Ashes in Staffordshire.
Goodreid owns eight other collectable commercial and military vehicles, including a 1943 T34/85 Russian tank and a Volvo BM Snow Cat amphibious snow clearer. He reckons the 1986 truck would be ideal for heavy haulage or recovery work.
He uses the 6x4 tractor, which is powered by a 14-litre Cummins engine, as a hotel when he travels on business — using the en suite shower, toilet, kitchen, air conditioning and lounge area which is finished in light oak and red Draylon with brass fittings.
The only
reason he is selling the rig is to buy a 1971 narrow window Peterbuilt, with a 400 Cummins engine, and his wife Norah has finally put her foot down and said something has got to go.
This is not surprising, listening to Goodreid telling anecdotes of how she cringed with embarrassment after being persuaded to turn up at a canal-side pub in his amphibious Snow Cat. Or how she agreed to ride on top of the turret of his Daimler Ferret scout car (Goodreid forgot she could be hit by overhanging low branches).
"I just wish he collected something like stamps," she sighs.