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RYAN'S RANGER

Always on the lookout for exceptional truck builds, I was talking to a good friend and regular trip buddy, Calvin Johnson, about the work that he had done to his Nissan Navara.

I was particularly impressed with the quality of the build of the box that he has on the back of his ute.

The work, he said, had been done by Probuilt Fabrication in Christchurch and gave me the number of the owner, Phillip Lepoidevin. Now, despite his name, which definitely sounds it, Phillip is not French.

He is, in fact, an Australian and moved to

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