Peter Turner owned a machinery and car dealership in Meningie, SA, for many years and during that time he got to know where the old tractors were so he started collecting them. Peter says he was always one step ahead of the scrap metal dealers. The only downside was that Meningie is near the coast and, as most of them were stored in the open they rusted badly, but at least they survived.

Around 1995, I started restoring tractors for Peter, and then in 2001, when the Meningie Cheese Factory Museum opened, undercover storage became available for the restored tractors. The collection of wrecks would sit in the yard awaiting their restoration upon completion of the one we were working on. 

Peter is well into his 90s now so we decided our last restoration would be