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The Word in Warracknabeal News from the Victorian town of Warracknabeal and its surrounds

The Warracknabeal SES has a new home – a hand-me-down from the Warracknabeal CFA! 👨🏻‍🚒
25/10/2025

The Warracknabeal SES has a new home – a hand-me-down from the Warracknabeal CFA! 👨🏻‍🚒

Have a squiz at this beauty – a fire engine built on a Dodge chassis, knocked together right in Warracknabeal back in th...
18/04/2025

Have a squiz at this beauty – a fire engine built on a Dodge chassis, knocked together right in Warracknabeal back in the day.

Turns out a bunch of ‘em were made there under contract for the CFA in the early 1900s. Bit of old-school engineering pride right there!

📸: John Whitehead

Move over, Formula 1 – Warracknabeal’s newest street racer just got busted cruising around in his pimped-out go-kart (em...
30/03/2025

Move over, Formula 1 – Warracknabeal’s newest street racer just got busted cruising around in his pimped-out go-kart (emphasis on the go, because registration and licenses were a definite no!).

Cops pulled over the MacGyver wannabe earlier this month after spotting his ahem “custom ride” (read: motorised death trap) puttering down Scott Street.

• Ride status: Impounded (RIP, $1,789.55 down the drain)
• Driver credentials: Literally “trust me, bro”
• Next stop: Court, where he’ll explain why Backyard Engineers Weekly isn’t a legal driver’s manual.

The cheeky fella now faces charges of unlicensed driving and extreme optimism. Community reaction? “Dude really thought this was Mario Kart,” laughed one local. “Hope he brought his coins for the impound lot!”

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