So look what happened ….. Shelly finally got her Hilux she’s always wanted!
A lot of you know that we’ve been looking at selling the green Prado and upgrading to something newer for Shelly to drive and for us to use as our weekend bush basher.
This is something we have been talking about for quite a while and after a lot of ‘talking’ and searching for the perfect vehicle, we finally found one a few hours north of Sydney.
George took a trip up to check it out first, and a week later Shelly went up to see and test drive it. After all the appropriate checks were run, and the car got the clean bill of health, we arranged to go and pick it up. So last weekend our newest family member arrived and it’s safe to say that we are both a little excited about this new project!
Although we own two other 4WD’s, this will be the first one that Shelly is going to build up exactly how she wants, so of course that means there could be a little pink (which may have already started!)
Like our white Prado, this Hilux is an ex-mining vehicle so it came with a lot of extras that we would have added anyway. It has the bull-bar (winch compatible so its easy to add a winch at a later stage), roll cage, UHF radio, reverse camera and it even has a dual battery system fitted. It was certainly a great buy for us.
Although this will be Shelly’s daily driver, it will also be our new weekend bush basher so it needs to be easy to drive in the city and fit in car parks etc, but we also need to ensure it is more than capable off-road. Although it’s more than capable of heading off-road now, we still have a list of mods and accessories which are to come and we are excited to start on the build.
So stay tuned for the build up progress ……
We are George & Shelly, a married couple from Sydney, Australia, who love 4WDing, camping and travelling this great country of ours. We love sharing our adventures and hope to inspire others to travel as well. Join us on our journeys around Australia!
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