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All the length of my six wheeler without the extra wheels. I'll pass thanks.

Beautiful, that's about the size/scale camper I want to build on my rig down the track, just a little longer to clear the extra rear axle. Thanks for sharing.

Don't talk to me about a 1HZ troopy being underpowered until you drive a 70 series that's had it's GVM increased to 4500KG with that same engine. I could get out and jog up a hill quicker than my rig can drive :sombrero:

Awesome! Not a lot is going to stop you in that! Add it to the registry, we'll get that thread stickied eventually :)

I use the older sibling the X-E1 and it's absolutely amazing. Beautiful colours, proper controls, good lenses, no mirror-box so you can adapt just about any brand of lens to the camera (I use quite a bit of Leica M lenses). I have only minor gripes with it, the odd sensor design means that 100%...

I'm going to hitch a lift on this conversation since it's relevant to what I'm doing with my truck as well, does anyone have any experience with the Seitz windows mentioned previously? I've got an Australian website that carries them and I'm looking at putting a pair of 450x900mm ones in the...

I've gone plenty of places in a 1988 Volvo 740 station wagon. Be delicate and forward thinking with picking your lines, fit the right tires, and it ain't that big a deal. Weight I think is the big killer with a lot of vehicles, all of the 4x4's I've driven have gotten stuck on terrain my old...

+1 on this, I'm sure we've got more '70 series pilots around here despite their rarity in North America!

Here's my freak ride, Name: Well my name is Richard, haven't given the vehicle a name yet but it tends to get referred to as the BattleCruiser. Year/Model: 2001 HZJ79 Country of import: Australian delivered, re-manufactured in Dalby QLD Kms/Miles: 210,000'ish KM's Options/Specs: Pretty...

Aint personally seen one with a 2nd row, they did them in a station wagon and a troop carrier config, troopy had the high roofline. Mine's a cab chassis from factory so not really something I've ever had to deal with. Edit: and as for capability? They're the par-for-course standard out here in...

Work colleague of mine who in a previous life spent some time over there reckoned he did everything out of a Hilux or a LC. Some armored, some not so much.

A lot of them (like mine) are lazy axle on the rear. The wagon half-cuts are getting rare since they won't let you cut cabs anymore, and most manufacturers are making decent dual cabs in Australia now anyway which can be converted. Only problem with a six wheeler is that every man and his dog...

Nice to see a Prado being used for what it's meant for. Down here they seem to be almost exclusively used for hauling affluent school kids to their private colleges... Great photos, thanks for sharing!

Mining companies (in australia at least) are massive on occupational health & safety, the sheer risks of litigation in event of injury/death scare the hell out of them. Plus there are so many folks in the OH&S industry desperately trying to protect their job's ;-)

Yeah, they never 'left' Australia, South Africa, etc. Japan are just getting the facelifted 70's a few years late. Rumour has it with all the mining companies demanding 5 star ANCAPP/euro equivalent safety ratings they'll either have to redo the 70 series lineup altogether very shortly or...

Man, you've just given me a raft of ideas for my rig once I outgrow the canopy, that's such a nicely executed little build!

That thing is mental, I can't wait to see it on the road!

Wicked! You've got me longing for my next high country trip!

It's a good point to be made I think. I suppose you need to ask yourself are you building a rock crawler or an expedition truck? In my mind an expedition truck is driving 2000km's to get somewhere remote, I'm not going to make that 2000km's of driving hell for 20km's worth of terrain that I...

I've got a cheaper knockoff that I bought second hand some years ago, main problem it has is the cover has slowly disintegrated. Overall design of them are pretty basic, just the aluminum extrusion seems to be the harder to produce. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk