For only one or two persons on short trips a Haflinger was about right but a bit slow.

I still miss my Land Rover Forward Control, even though I now sustain a bank balance in the black. It was fox shooter's vehicle and then a bushfire brigade vehicle before I ran school camps with it. The bloke I sold it to fitted it out with a sound-blimped generator that put out enough electricity for a small town and, the last I heard, it was the power supply for the making of the film "Gallipoli", back in South Australia's outback.

The first Toyotas in Oz had a motor that anyone would have thought was a Chev 6 cylinder by General Motors (carbys and all), except that every nut and bolt was metric. With the gear lever position for Reverse where everything else put First, most road users learned not to be the one immediately behind a Toyota at the lights.

Cheers, Rowan