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When Milo blew her grey import 13BT motor after about 200,000km, I spent time down in Victoria at Terrain Tamer where Alan Gray and the mechanics totally rebuilt, balanced and blue printed the little dump truck engine. This was the first trip out, a 'breaking in' trip from Brisbane down to Coffin Bay on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, about four hundred Kms west of Adelaide, where we did some excellent four wheeling around the sand tracks and beaches of this wild bit of coast. By the time I got home Milo's new donk had clocked a tad over 10,000km.
Yep, plenty of everything except people. This part of Australia isn't well known but it's the home of the some of the world's best seafood as well as some of the worst beach bogging ever. Yep, what with soft sand dunes to swallow trucks and quick sand on the beach that can leave you stranded as the tide comes in, it's no place to take it easy.
I was lucky to do the trip with some awesome people from the Summer Tracks 4WD club, some of whom have become mates for life since then. In this footage you'll see something very unusual, somebody else doing bush fixes on the truck! Dave Griffin is still one of those mechanics I call when I need advice - amazing bloke on the tools!
Righto, settle in, grab a Coopers ale, imagine how good some fresh scallops could taste, and enjoy Coffin Bay - then maybe plan a trip over there yourself!
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