Dear All,
To help finance a little one of our own, we have decided to put the Battered Fish and Barnacle up for SALE!
For many of you who have read our Blog, you have some idea of what the Battered Fish and Barnacle have achieved and what they are capable of.
The Battered Fish is a 1995 Toyota Landcruiser 4.2L 6 cylinder 5 speed 4WD fitted with all the equipment you need to take you to those remote places you always dreamed of, such as a snorkel, 10t winch, bull bar, driving and fog lights, heavy duty and raised suspension, towbar and dual fuel tanks (approximately 270L), new injector pump. It is registered until March 2011 and has a full service history.
The Battered Fish is fully equipped for you to start your adventure tomorrow, as it has all the recovery gear - air compressor, bottle jacks, x-jack inflated bag, axe, shovel, solar panel for the dual battery system, 60L engel fridge, storage draw system, 60L stainless steel water tank, 6 wheels with Cooper ATR tyres (4 are only 10,000km old), HF radio, CB radio, roof rack, camping lights, trailer brakes, as well as numerous other features.
The Battered Fish is somewhat of a veteran having travelled some 414,000 kms, around and throughout Australia proving its capabilities with us and its previous owner.
The Barnacle, registered until April 2011, is a Kangaroo Tent City Kangaroo 9 Off Road Trailer, with all the features (refer to www.kangarootentcity.com.au) plus numerous extras including:
Cooper ATR tyres (all interchangeable with the Landcruiser), Full canvas sunroom, 360 degree treg coupling, gas bottle and jerry can holders, spare wheel and vertical mount, electric brakes, AL-KO independent suspension, 60L underfloor water tank, removable platform step for easy access to the bed area, Drifta DPO Slide out kitchen kit - storage box, kitchen and storage box (refer to www.drifta.com.au) as well as all the tarps, flooring, ropes, pegs and plastic storage boxes.
We are pleased to offer the Battered Fish and Barnacle together or separately for $23,000 ono and $8,000 ono respectively. Call us on 0410 633 530 or email gedmimmo@hotmail.com.
Make your dreams come true and set off tomorrow on your adventures.
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- rach and ged
- In May 2008, we embarked on a 37,000km adventure around the whole of Australia. The mission we set ourselves was to attempt to travel around Australia in a fun, alternative way. We decided to use waste vegetable oil from roadhouses and fish & chip shops to fuel our second hand 4WD (which we called “the Battered Fish” due to the aroma that ascended from the exhaust!), stay in bush camps as much as possible, use bio-degradable products, cook over camp fires, use solar-panels to power the fridge and electrical equipment, catch our own dinner and buy local produce. The adventure finished on 23 December 2008. We travelled just under 37,000 kms, the majority of which was on waste cooking oil. We managed to reach the most Eastern, Northern, Western and Southern points of mainland Australia, do some challenging 4WDriving through creek crossings, over sand dunes and muddy clay, stayed in some unbelievably beautiful bush camps and met some amazing locals (including quite a few crocs!). Please read from the archive sections our blogs on what we got up to in each place. Also, watch this space as this will not be last you hear from the Battered Fish!
"The Battered Fish"
A 1995 Toyota Landcruiser Troopcarrier. We purchased the car in April 2008 and converted the engine so that it could run on WVO, added a solar panel to the roof, changed all the filters, oil, tyres and injectors, added a HF Radio for communication and brought all the recovery gear. The car already had an UHF radio, storage drawers, extra suspension, dual batteries, dual fuel tank and a snorkel. At the start of the trip, there were already 366,250 kms on the clock! Fully loaded, it weighs about 3.5 tonnes.
"The Barnacle"
An off-road Camper 9 camper trailer from Kangaroo Tent City. We added an additional canvas sunroom so that we can eat in this area without insects bothering us and also a kitchen which has a sink, work bench and drawers.
"The Mascots"
Bear and Rabbit in their own Battered Fish
Sponsors
Check out these fine specimens in the clothes very kindly provided to us by www.pagemurray.com. If any supporters of the Battered Fish would like to look as good as Gerard and Rachel, then contact www.pagemurray.com directly to order your supporter gear. By the way, Rachel and Gerard are available for catalogue work..........
Funny roadsigns/place names
No boxing with kangaroos?
Warning - car eating cows!
Warning - Dangermouse ahead
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