- Hey, look, don't adjust your sets.
You're not actually seeing double
I know it's crazy.
What you are seeing is one devastatingly handsome,
outdoor adventure type bloke,
and also Locky from "Survivor" and "The Bachelor."
Sorry, mate. How ya going?
- Yeah. Good, man.
I mean, I've got the rig of my dreams.
Like, I've been travelling around Australia,
just having the time of my life
and I'm doing it with the girl of my dreams.
- [Brenno] For the viewers, maybe we'll just rewind back a little bit
and talk about how the car came about.
So we started talking right in the thick of COVID in 2020.
You had just finished filming "The Bachelor."
- [Locky] Yep.
- You and Irena had finished filming and you guys had plans
to do some big travels around Australia.
Nissan chucked you guys the keys to this awesome Navara.
And obviously it was pretty damn good,
but thought we could make it a bit better.
- Definitely. Yeah, well finished "The Bachelor"
and I thought I wanted to spend some time with Irena,
so I thought we'd hit the road and travel around,
and Kings are the best in the business.
So came to you guys and you set me up
with pretty much everything I need.
- Probably one of my favourite memories
about this whole thing was just hanging out
for a couple of days in the shed
and building this all ourselves.
We just lobbed in, chucked a few tools at it,
few parts at it.
So we had Cahn getting stuck into all the 12 volt stuff.
So we've done some pretty cool stuff, 12 volt wise here.
How's it all been going for you?
- This, you can live off grid like, for ages
and it's just perfect.
I travel with drones and laptops and e-bikes,
and just having the power there ready to go
to charge up everything anywhere I am,
it's just perfect.
Out of everything, we use the fridge the most.
Like, it's always got beers,
beers are cold, ice.
Having ice on the road is amazing.
'Cause we drink either gin and tonics
or Captain Morgan rum.
Like it's, having ice is everything.
- It'd be game changing.
- It is a game changing.
The one thing I really like is the grand tour and the racks.
If we had the normal folding one out,
we wouldn't be able to have the kayak or the bikes
or pretty much everything.
But having the racks on top is a game changer.
It just means we can fit a lot more onto the car.
Even just that space there,
I fit everything.
'Cause we, when we travel,
we travel with day bags here for all the clothes.
So that's what sits in here.
Having a full platform here is a game changer.
Then this just slides straight out.
- And I'd like to lay a little bit of claim
to my little bit of,
I wouldn't call it brilliance.
I'd call it slightly above mediocre metal fabrication skills
and making the little frame.
- [Locky] Yep.
Well that's what we were doing.
We were just there in the shed and we're like,
"What can we do?"
Fit everything in and just put everything on there.
Literally everything.
- So obviously apart from doing up the ute,
you've got a couple of our adventure bits of gear.
You guys have got the kayaks and the paddleboards.
How you been finding those?
- [Locky] The kayak is literally the comfiest thing.
Like, I raced kayaks and did some adventure races
and most kayaks can be pretty uncomfy.
You can sit on that all day.
Like, and it goes anywhere.
Irena sits in the kayak, I'm on the paddleboard,
and we just do that all day.
- [Brenno] And where have you been in it so far?
- We've taken the rig around up to Lancelin,
on the beaches there, down south, down to Bluff Knoll,
Albany, Busselton.
Then we put the trailer on,
took it across South Australia, down through Tasmania.
Took it on some pretty good tracks down in Tassie as well.
- I can imagine.
So you've been on the road for a good couple of months now.
How are you finding it all?
Have you got anything that you would like to change,
or if you had your time again, would you change anything?
- It's hard to say.
I don't think I would.
Like, I've got everything on there.
So if I wanna change it,
it's super easy just to change it myself.
But it's pretty much perfect.
- Favourite bit of 4 wheel driving you've done in it so far?
- Probably, we did the Mount McCall track in Tasmania.
It's just like an old haul road
and you go right to the river, and that was amazing.
Just views and stunning.
But just the whole trip, me and Irena
are the happiest we are when we're just,
you know, travelling.
- And yeah, I guess that's Kings to a T.
That's all, it's just all about getting out there
and seeing Australia, not spending the earth,
but still having all the gear that you need, I guess.
- Yeah, exactly. That's why Kings has just been perfect.
Like, even when I needed something,
I just drop into a Kings,
chuck it in and it's ready to go.
Like, if you need something, drop into a Kings store,
grab it, and you can hit the road that day.
- [Brenno] You guys kicked off and you only had the ute,
but when you guys kicked off,
we'd just launched the MT1 camper trailer
and you're towing one around Australia now.
- [Locky] Yeah. I mean, when we were doing this,
I saw in the background,
I saw the trailer and I was like, "Hold on.
I need me one of those."
'Cause I travel with a lot of gear
and we were travelling with a crew,
so we need somewhere for our crew to sleep
and the trailer, it was perfect.
- So what's the plans next mate?
Where are you guys off to next?
- We are heading up the east coast.
We're gonna go up through Cairns,
then NT, back through WA.
But we're gonna do that about three months.
So yeah, it's gonna be pretty exciting.
- Mate, thank you very much.
Really appreciate your time, Locky.
- Not a problem. - Great to see you mate,
and many happy travels, mate.
- Too easy, let's hit the road.
- Woohoo.
What a dead set rig.
I reckon my favourite part about the entire thing
is it proves you can build something that amazing
at home in your shed or your driveway with no special tools,
just the willingness to give it a go.
And don't go anywhere, because right here,
we've got Locky and Irena's review
on the entire rig, how it's performing
after 20,000 kilometres around Australia.