HALF A CENTURY

FIFTY YEARS! That’s a bloody long time to be tackling the challenge of designing and building parts to withstand the ruggedness of outback travel, but that’s the impressive milestone Aussie off-road icon Terrain Tamer has reached this year. Terrain Tamer founder Frank Hutchinson (left) has been there since the beginning, back in 1969, when, after four years in the banking industry, he decided to start his own spare parts company, so began working as a parts supplier at the local Bedford General Motors distributor – then called GV Clarke.

“For four years I worked learning all about the spare parts industry and in the last year I met Don Kyatt,” Frank recalls. “I told him that I joined this company to get experience and