Anthony here, I grew up in the Pilbara and had a pretty successful speedway career in my youth. Initially racing sedans in the junior modified division in a 202 powered LH Torana before moving up to Sprintcar racing at the ripe old age of 15. I was obsessed and spent every weekend and a lot of weeknights washing, repairing and rebuilding race cars. At that stage in my life, if you didn’t want to talk about sprintcars then we had nothing in common. 

In my early 20’s, my work asked me to move to the Middle East, not wanting to miss any opportunities in life I accepted the offer and headed off to Dubai. Needing something to replace the hole in my life left by speedway, I brought a Hummer H2 and spend my weekends exploring the desert dunes and coast line of the U.A.E. & Oman. 

I moved back to Australia, just after starting a family and spent a couple of years out of off-roading, modifying a Nissan R33 GTR and running track days and cruises. Got sick of that and wanted to get out and see more of WA, so started modifying a Porsche Cayenne Turbo S for off-road touring. The Porsche was a pretty unique sight to see on the remote beaches up and down the coast and people used to shake their heads in disbelief whenever they saw it somewhere it shouldn’t be. I thought I knew better until it let me down after a serious off-roading session up the track from Monkey Mia, in between Christmas & New Years one year, when every workshop in WA was closed.

So next was the Amarok which is still going strong. I’ve had it since 2018 and it’s a finished project now. It’s interesting because most people in the 4x4 community have no idea what an Amarok is capable of, but when you know, you know. Shortly after getting it, I met up with Paul & Gary at the very first subscribers day, met Holly and Brad along the way and have gone along on any other trip I could get an invite to.