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In a Pioneer Museum in Queensland this week I saw a number of objects that are relics of Australia’s past.\u00a0 There was the original Dalby lockup, and a cottage with a backyard toilet, an old boxy TV with a remote connected by a power cord, and bones of local dinosaurs.\u00a0 There was also a collection which would normally do nothing for me:\u00a0 one of Australia’s largest gatherings of old agricultural machinery.\u00a0 But wandering through the open sheds, expecting nothing, I found something.\u00a0 The old beauties in the photos below are really my scene.\u00a0 I would have loved a ride in any of them.\u00a0 Well, almost any.\u00a0 There was this jazzy yellow Ford truck:<\/p>\n

\"Truck,<\/a><\/p>\n

A 1957 Chevrolet fire engine:<\/p>\n

\"Fire<\/a><\/p>\n

A train whose chugging days are over:<\/p>\n

\"Train,<\/a><\/p>\n

And weirder than all of the retired vehicles on display, and one I don’t want a ride in, is this Chandler hearse, one of only two left in the world.\u00a0 I can’t say for sure there was no one in that box:<\/p>\n