00:00Everywhere you go people come up and say, wow, what's this?
00:05I use it every day, it's my daily drive and I really like off-roading.
00:10It combines the two together, it's really cool.
00:13Two for one, happy life.
00:25New Zealand.
00:27Home to epic scenery.
00:29Breathtaking beaches and a truly awesome two-car mashup.
00:38This is my Morris Minor traveller, Woody.
00:42On first glance, Woody may look like a 1950s British Motor Corporation classic, but this
00:50car is a wolf in sheep's clothing.
00:53Once you get underneath it, it's a Suzuki Vitara.
00:57It's cool, it's an awesome four-wheel drive and it's practical.
01:06I've always wanted one of those big American woodies, but I could never afford one.
01:12And I saw the little Morris Minor traveller go down the road one day and I thought that
01:16would be cool.
01:17And I already had the four-wheel drive Suzuki, so then I came up with this brilliant idea
01:23to put them together.
01:24Brilliant indeed.
01:26Tell us how you did it.
01:27Get your pens and paper out, we're going to go through some details.
01:31I ended up buying a two-door Morris and then I found a second traveller chassis and roof.
01:38We made moulds of the roof and the side panels.
01:41We made them out of carbon.
01:43It's got a carbon fibre roof and carbon fibre panels.
01:46I was a bit worried about the wood creaking when we were going off-roading, so we put these
01:52two roll bars in here inside.
01:55There's a whole lot of bits added together in running gear of a Suzuki Vitara four-wheel
02:01drive with a Morris Minor traveller stuck on top.
02:04Two for one, happy life.
02:07And this unique machine must be worth a few bucks.
02:10To be honest, I probably don't actually have a number for it, but half of it my business
02:16paid for it, half of it I paid for it, so my business partner doesn't know how much it
02:21costs and neither does my wife, so everybody's sort of reasonably happy.
02:26For Shane, this combo is the best of two worlds.
02:31I use it every day, I take it to work, I take it down to get a coffee, pick up the groceries,
02:41and then it takes me back to work on Monday, which is a bit of a downer.
02:46It's just an all-purpose, do anything, do everything.
02:49Pick the groceries up, go extreme four-wheel driving in the same day.
02:52Don't have to change vehicles.
02:54Easy.
02:55This Morris takes me to all my adventure sports I want to do, mountain biking, kite surfing,
03:01paddle boarding, fishing.
03:03While this vehicle's a fun, everyday driver, it's most at home off-road.
03:10Really, it's a gnarly four-wheel driving beast.
03:17It actually drives like a Suzuki Vitara, strangely enough, except it's got this big steering wheel
03:21with this really cool horn.
03:22Most people that see it, they think it's pretty cool, they like taking selfies with it.
03:28They talk to me, ask me lots of questions about it.
03:34I really like hanging out at the beach.
03:35I really like off-roading.
03:36It combines the two together.
03:37It's really cool.
03:38Everywhere you go, people come up and say, wow, this is a big steering wheel with this
03:41big steering wheel with this really cool horn.
03:42Most people that see it, they think it's pretty cool.
03:43They like taking selfies with it.
03:44They talk to me, ask me lots of questions about it.
03:55I really like hanging out at the beach.
03:57I really like off-roading.
03:58It combines the two together.
04:00It's really cool.
04:02Everywhere you go, people come up and say, wow, what's this?
04:11The most memorable incident I had was a big chap comes staunching over to me and said,
04:16is this yours, bro?
04:17And I said, yeah.
04:19And he said, it's a mean ass walker, bro.
04:22And you can't argue with that.
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