Misty Blue & Southern Pride - Grizzled veterans

When I started doing these night-time studies in the eighties, Mainfreight Co-founder, the late Neil Graham, saw how this technique really made his colours stand-out – and he commissioned me to shoot various trucks in this livery around the country.

One of my favourite shots is this one – Misty Blue – a Detroit Diesel 6V92 International and Southern Pride – an R-series Mack, side by side.

International, as a brand, was on the wane, and the R-series Mack had already emphatically made a name for itself in the New Zealand road transport scene.

Grizzled veterans that deserve a special place in the pantheon of  great trucks.

As always – if you want to send me more history on these trucks – email me – these trucks are part of our trucking history and the more info the better.