Traveler III
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- First Name
- Jakes
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- van der Merwe
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Hallo everyone!
So I recently took the plunge and got myself a Bakkie (Pick-up, Ute, Truck, Rig... insert relevant country descriptor)
Looking around we picked up the bakkie for a great price but the best yet is that it only had 12k miles on the clock... similar aged vehicles in the UK you would expect 40k+ miles on so pretty chuffed.
And there she is in her silver glory... I liked the video of Micheal discussing building from the ground up but we are approaching it a little different... in-fact probably the opposite top down. My military mind works in phases so this is how we will be approaching our project
Phase 1 of the build will be getting a canopy(topper) roof bars and roof top tent, this is to allow us to get out and about sooner.
Phase 2 will be sorting the inside of the canopy, drawer system, for which I will be relying on my high school wood working skills, fridge and power system. This will make our ‘out and aboutness’ (technical term) easier.
Phase 3 will be getting the Bakkie green lane ready, bumpers, underbody protection, suspension and traction (lockers and wheels).
There will be a ‘through life phase’ which will consist of doing the little things such as sorting the navigation system dog retention system etc etc... the little things that need doing.
As you can hopefully see my priority is for the rig to facilitate family exploring with getting it ‘off-roading’ being of lesser importance but it will still happen.
Anyway that will do it as a starter for 10 on my build thread :)
Looking forward to getting involved :)
Regards
So I recently took the plunge and got myself a Bakkie (Pick-up, Ute, Truck, Rig... insert relevant country descriptor)
Looking around we picked up the bakkie for a great price but the best yet is that it only had 12k miles on the clock... similar aged vehicles in the UK you would expect 40k+ miles on so pretty chuffed.
And there she is in her silver glory... I liked the video of Micheal discussing building from the ground up but we are approaching it a little different... in-fact probably the opposite top down. My military mind works in phases so this is how we will be approaching our project
Phase 1 of the build will be getting a canopy(topper) roof bars and roof top tent, this is to allow us to get out and about sooner.
Phase 2 will be sorting the inside of the canopy, drawer system, for which I will be relying on my high school wood working skills, fridge and power system. This will make our ‘out and aboutness’ (technical term) easier.
Phase 3 will be getting the Bakkie green lane ready, bumpers, underbody protection, suspension and traction (lockers and wheels).
There will be a ‘through life phase’ which will consist of doing the little things such as sorting the navigation system dog retention system etc etc... the little things that need doing.
As you can hopefully see my priority is for the rig to facilitate family exploring with getting it ‘off-roading’ being of lesser importance but it will still happen.
Anyway that will do it as a starter for 10 on my build thread :)
Looking forward to getting involved :)
Regards
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