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Now this is awesome!

We’ve been pretty excited for the upcoming Bounty Pro Pulling game, but now we’re even more excited! Plum Crazy has officially made it into the game!

It’s fantastic to see an Australian tractor being recognised on a global stage and featured in a game that will be played by pulling fans around the world. Australian tractor pulling has produced some incredible machines over the years, and it’s great to see one of them getting international exposure!

Great work to the Bounty Pro Pulling team!

Bounty Pro Pulling will release into Early Access on June 13, 2026!
It will include over 25 vehicles and different engine configurations
Add it to your wishlist if you still havent, Bounty Pro Pulling on Steam!
Revealing a new vehicle every day until release 😎
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4391870/Bounty_Pro_Pulling/

What tractor pulling goodies are in your man cave? 🥇

What do you think are the top 5 most iconic Australian made pulling tractors? 🚜

Rockabilly began construction in 1988 by Ian “Knobby” Jones of Mandurah, Western Australia. At the time, Tim White, who owned “Tim’s Sin”, had imported a set of Wysong chassis rails from America, which became the base that Rockabilly would be replicated from. The build process took over 12 months to complete and, by the time it was finished, it had been fitted with a Toyota ToyoAce rear differential, a Chrysler 340 with extensive head work, and a highly modified 904 Chrysler transmission.

After about 12 months of competition, Knobby decided that the 340 wasn’t going to cut it, swapping the bottom end for the larger and more powerful 360 Chrysler while keeping the same modified heads. The next step in Rockabilly’s early days of trial and error was the fuel of choice. VP race fuel of the time period was used, however for a few events Knobby tried his hand at running methanol, but with terrible results it was decided that VP race fuel was the way to go.

Rockabilly was constantly being upgraded and perfected through every change and tweak. Knobby imported a set of aluminium three-piece wheels and a brand new set of Firestone puller tyres, which he cut and shaped himself. It paid off because Rockabilly became one of the most reliable and fiercely competitive tractors in all of Western Australia.

Being known as Western Australia’s top mini, Knobby and a few other WA pullers made the journey across to Quambatook for their Australian Championship titles. At the time, there was an agreement between the associations on the east and west coasts that both sides would accept each other’s rules to keep pulling simple and smooth running. When Rockabilly arrived at Quambatook and competed in the first event, Knobby says it “blitzed them” and was later disqualified for “illegal rear wheel retainers”.

In 2002, Knobby Jones felt it was time to sell the tractor and move on, so his good friend, Nat Hudson of Pleasant Grove, Western Australia, decided to purchase Rockabilly. When Nat took delivery of the tractor, it had a crack in one of the cylinder walls and the 360 was given a fresh rebuild. Nat competed with Rockabilly for five years, even making the trek across the country to Quambatook for their Australian Championships, this time with new wheel retainers. Though that still wasn’t enough to appease the eastern pullers, with the 360 Chrysler now being deemed “too big” for the limited rules of the time.

In 2007, Nat took work overseas and Rockabilly found new ownership with Steve Hayes of Perth.

Steve fixed all the concerns that were limiting Rockabilly from competing all across Australia, removing the 360 Chrysler and swapping it for a stroked 318 Chrysler instead. Steve was very fond of Rockabilly, stating that it not only looked good, but also ran good and sounded good. It was a tractor he later regretted selling in 2018 to Murray Tucker from Melbourne, Victoria.

Murray ran Rockabilly for only one season before suffering engine failure at Tasmania’s Deloraine Tractor Pull, making the decision to sell the tractor as a rolling chassis to Mick Siemens from Gippsland in 2019.

Mick fitted a very strong and reliable 350 Chev, breaking the thirty-year tradition of a Mopar-powered Rockabilly, along with making other drivetrain changes including the transmission and more. Although the tractor no longer had its iconic Chrysler engine, one thing that didn’t change was the fact that Rockabilly was always so well set up that it remained extremely tough competition and always looked the part. Mick ran Rockabilly for seven years and, within that time, his sons Chas and Tyler learnt to drive in the tractor, becoming Australia’s youngest drivers at just 14 years old after a rule change lowered the starting age.

Easter 2026, Mick decided it was time to hand over the keys to Rockabilly. Steve Hayes made the trip over to Victoria, where he traded his tractor at the time, Iron Nuts, for Rockabilly, bringing his beloved tractor back home to WA once again.

Rockabilly has been a benchmark for both pullers and spectators alike from every coast of Australia and will no doubt continue to do so for many more years, and It’s probably safe to say that Steve won’t be letting Rockabilly go again anytime soon.

The answer is 281!!! Well done everyone 👏🏻

Whoever can guess the closest number wins a free HMM shirt! 😏

How many tractors do you think there have been so far in Australian tractor pulling? Ones that have actually hit the track, not ones currently awaiting the season or still being built

We count tractors based on the name, with the exception of tractors that shared the same name but were actually different tractors. For example, there were three different Nightmares, so that counts as three tractors. Chocobloc 1, 2 and 3 are also counted as three separate tractors.