PROTEA POWER
Picture this: a rooftop tent that goes up and down with the press of a button. When I was on the Gold Coast recently, the prospect of seeing such a tent in the flesh was too much, so I arranged to catch up with Bundutec Australia to see the South African-made Bundutop in action. I saw more than I’d bargained for — two tents, one on the white Land Rover Defender belonging to Ian, who runs Bundutec Australia, and the other on the black LandCruiser of well-known personality Luke Eglin, who you might recognise from Married At First Sight.
Well-versed in the ways of reality television, Luke is also fluent in offroad, be it in the Victorian High Country or along Queensland’s white sand beaches. Nor is Ian a stranger. After clocking 30,000km in a Defender equipped with a Bundutop tent on a journey through South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique (not necessarily in that order), Ian now views the tracks throughout Africa as “a combination of Cape York and the Canning Stock Route, but with wild animals.”
MODS AND FITMENT
Bundutec’s signature Bundutop tent consumes a majority of the roof rack space, but it’s compatible with roof-carried accessories in a way many other hard-lid tents are not.
A solar panel of up to 300W can be drilled and bolted to the roof, which can take a dispersed 25kg. There’s a pre-wired Anderson plug to receive the charge, its wiring threaded discreetly down the tent’s internal arm
