4x4 Magazine Australia

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AUSTRALIA has a love affair with the humble 70 Series LandCruiser. There’s just something about them that speaks to us on an almost genetic level. Rugged and adventurous, without all the glitz and glamour that’d see them compared to a tall poppy. They’re part of our culture, ingrained in us so deeply that it almost seems ludicrous that Burke and Wills didn’t just load up aTroopy and slip on a pair of thongs for their ill-fated adventure up through the Red Centre. Combine those romanticised ideas of the old leaf-sprung 70 trundling along a dirt road, with the off-kilter idle of a diesel under the bonnet, and is it any wonder we collectively lost our minds over the double-cab 79? You’d be hard-pressed imagining a better vehicle for Aussie conditions.

Unless of course your name is Ben Kingham, the man behind the ideas and the spanners at OzTrack Custom. Then your job would

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