How good is this rig behind me? There's no doubt about it. I
reckon it's probably one of the better builds that I've done
recently. Now, it's an F150 Lariat. Now, if you're not
familiar with that, that is literally one of Ford's
biggest-selling utes in the world. Can you believe that?
The most popular selling ute in the world, and I have taken it,
put of a Jayco Crosstrak on the back, and we've turned it into
one of the coolest competition giveaways that you've seen to
date. What I'm going to do is I'm just going to give you a
quick run through because I know the build from front to
back because I spend a lot of time putting it together. Now
the first thing you'll notice is I've actually got a bit of
raptor coat going on, and I've raptor-coated all the front end
of this truck. If you have a look here we've got raptor
coating on the front here, got raptor coat on the bull bar.
I've put a body kit onto it. You got a bonnet scoop, side flares,
all that sort of stuff helping to improve the physical looks
of this truck to give a mean stance so to speak. There's some
spotlights on the front here as well. Now the other thing I did,
I went to America and I got this awesome new grill setup.
Check that out. So that's an aftermarket grill with LED
light sitting in the front of it. That's pretty cool I
reckon. Now if you keep coming down the side of the truck, the
other thing you'll notice is if you look up the back there, it's
got a CampBoss rooftop tent. So that's our flagship rooftop
tent, and that's what makes this whole package really cool.
Because it allows you to unhook the caravan, mate, and just head
off for the weekend with heaps of room in the in the cab
and heaps of room in the back to do a little weekend getaway
Now what if the tracks are really tough, like you're going
out into the bush well that's what the thirty-five inch tyres
are for. Have a look at those suckers. So they're a mud
terrain tyre, 35 by 12 1/2 inch, and you might think that's
a bloody big tyre to put on a ute. Well because it's an F150,
it's a big ute anyway. It's only going up a small tyre size
from what they have standard, because they run fairly big
tyres. It's got some really cool nice rims on it there. I even
put a lift kit through it. So it's got an Outback Armor
lift kit. Now that gives you another 2-3 inches of
lift from standard. It also gives you that GVM and GCM
upgrade which allows you to carry a truckload of gear and
tow the caravan all at once, hence being an absolute cool
package to go bush and then to beach. Now if you keep coming
down the side, I like these bits and pieces here. Look at this.
Electric side steps, that's gold. The one thing you will notice
about these trucks especially this F150 is the size. The space
in the back of these things, check that out. That's monstrous.
I'm going to jump in there. Look at that. Mate, you can almost get
a double bed in the back of here. It's that big. Imagine kids
are not kicking you in the back of the seat anymore. That would
be pretty cool actually, because I remember the first time I
went away with the kids, I spent the time most of that time with
the kids just kicking me in the back of the seat. They never do
that in my truck and my kids are growing up now. Now the one
thing about these F150s and why they're the single most sold
ute in the world, get you, is because I've left it as a tub,
because the ute is a very versatile bit of kit. So you can
imagine you've got the rooftop tent and if you want to take a
couple of mountain bikes away with you, the kids bikes,
chuck in a couple of stand up paddle boards there that you
want to pump up, mate it allows that space, okay? And of course
if you have a look at the rooftop tent as well, and I'll
just drop the tailgate.
It's all these cool features that you get with the F150. And
you have a look up in here, now this is the rooftop tent from
CampBoss--very, very comfortable, mind you. And if you had to, I
reckon you could squeeze mom and dad and one of the littlest
kids in here for sure. Now you'll notice it's got an
awning all the way around all three windows, and that
allows for any rain to be drained off and not go into the
tent if you've got the windows down a little bit. And
up north, you get those monsoonal rains. You get a
lot of a lot of rain coming down, and you want a bit of
airflow because it gets hot as well. So I've used them in hot
climates and cold climates. We've got on the roof
there, it is insulated and carpet lined. And then for
condensation which you get when you get down into the colder
climates, we've got what's called a moisture
absorption mat on the bottom--a 20 mil moisture absorption
mat and that stops any of the moisture coming up through your
mattress on the bottom. Now it's got a good quality mattress in it.
It's got some power points in there and a light so that
you can see what you're doing at night. And you can charge
your phones and stuff like that. So it's really like a little
mini home away from home on the top of your four-wheel drive. So
like I said, it allows you to to nick off, disconnect the caravan
at the caravan park and nick off into the bush or to the
beach for a quick day run or an overnighter, no problem. Or if
you're like me, man, I'll spend weeks and weeks and weeks in a
rooftop tent. I don't care. It's even got the cool
customized number plates. Now you can imagine, let's imagine
this, so this truck has a 3.5 litre twin turbo V6 engine,
and that's standard. And then I went and dialed it up I got it
dialed up, and we put a sports exhaust in it. So that gives it
now nearly 400 horsepower and nearly 600 newton meters of
torque, and that just gives you endless power when you want to
tow the two tonne Crosstrak Jayco van.
This one is a 14.1 okay, which is quite a compact Crosstrak
. They have bigger versions of it, but this is a
compact Crosstrak, and it's got like I said it's around two
tonne in weight. And the F150, look, it effortlessly tows it. There's
no doubt about it. Now it's a pop top caravan. You'll notice
it's popped up there. It's got a roll out awning on the front of
it, and it's got all this cool kitchen. So in here okay, in here
oh we've got a a cuttery roll there hanging off there, but in
there you put your your fridge. Okay so you put a a good size
fridge in there so your 50 litre Coolman goes in there.
myCoolman. And then you come around here, you've
got hot and cold running water here, supplied by the gas
hot water system. So hot and cold running water with the
sink, and you've got gas here. It's a gas cooktop. Little glass
lids on them that make it really easy for cleaning, you
know. Like that's pretty cool, and then you can use it as
a bench when you're not playing with it, and it all conveniently
packs away like this. And that's the beauty of the Crosstrak. You
gotta remember it's a hybrid type caravan. It's not your
normal caravan. This thing is designed to go off road okay.
There's no bush to beach action that you can't go without the
Crosstrak, trust me, if you wanted to, you can take it
everywhere. But it's easy. It's a quick pack up. I reckon you'd be--
it'd have to be 40 second pack up, like that, 40 seconds. How's
that? And I can do that by myself. Okay keep coming along
here. We've got an LED light bar sitting in here, okay so when
you've got the set up at night you can turn the
lights on. You've even got outdoor sockets here.
You've got 15 amp sockets to power up the van. You've
also got a TV antenna, you've got 12 volt gear, it's even got
--see that--it's even got a stereo system with speakers on
the outside. So let's have a look inside the van, and no
doubt about it, I like this because it's home away from
home. Now this is an inner spring mattress, it isn't just a
big chunk of foam, mate. This is an inner spring mattress.
Comfortable as hell. You've got a lot of shelving, a lot of
pockets--they're like little storage pockets behind me.
You've got some little storage pockets. You got some storage
pockets over there. You've got a little skylight going on up
here for if you want normal ventilation. Or get this mate, if
you're at the caravan park, put the air conditioner on. Mate air
conditioning in a caravan in the middle of nowhere. I don't
know about you, but that's definitely home away from home.
Wouldn't matter what time of the year you go up north or
down south you can have reverse cycle air come on warmth or
heating okay so heating or coldness. Now once you sit up
there on the bed, if you want to take a shower or go to the
toilet then there you go just pull that sucker out there.
Alright well there you go, hot and cold shower. Okay, that'll
keep the missus happy for sure. In fact I think it might keep me
happy. Um hot and cold shower. Have a look in here. We got a
toilet. We've got a little sink here. Mate, this thing's got
everything. Hot and cold running water at the sink.
Brush your teeth. There's even a little couple of toothbrush
holders there if you want to put your toothbrush there. It
works really really well with two people. Now, you're
thinking to yourself, what am I going to do if I've gotta bring
the kids with me? Well, that's what the rooftop tent's for.
Imagine, mom and dad in here. Kids in the rooftop tent. Where
we going? We're going from the bush to the beach. Now what do
you do well if you want to win this awesome prize package that
I've just shown you? You've gotta go to keys2adventure.com.au
Get yourself one of the packages, and mate, it's that
simple. You could be driving off into the sunset with this prize
pack, and also did I mention that this thing was fully off-
road which means it's got an awesome independent suspension
package sitting right under there all put together by Jayco.
So don't muck around. Don't think 'I'll never win
anything.' Have a crack, have a go, because you never know you
could be the next Bush 2 Beach prize winner.