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A STAR IS BORN
Remember Airfix kits and the sense of achievement when you'd glued the final component and were ready to reach for the enamel paint?
In Peter Funnel's case I'd say you could take that feeling and multiply it by a zillion, for he has recently finished building a three-quarter size Kenworth/ Peterbilt "Little Rig", launched at the Stoneleigh Kit-Car Show earlier this month.
The truck, based on a Ford Transit rolling chassis, is 16ft long and aft high. The body is fibreglass and aluminium, and the tanks, bumpers, aerofoil grille and exhausts are polished Steel. It has a 20in Davies fifth-wheel coupling and a trailer tow hitch; the engine is a 2.5-litre DI diesel If its reception safaris anything to go by, this truck looks set to be a real star, as it has already been filmed by Granada Television.