Managed to build a start battery out of otherwise dead lithium cells and fitted it to the Hino...... and it worked a treat

Cleaned the spider webs off, fitted the number plates that had sat in their wrapper for the last 12mths since Brian transferred the rego to SA, Margaret packed food and clothes and installed the double bed mattress from home, the curtains from Mazda that don't quite fit but are at least better than what was there, connected up the fully loaded trailer, packed 22 x 270w solar panels on the bed, and off we went to Crystal Brook.
Only shattered 1 panel on the trip, discovered yet another Brian vehicle needs serious cooling system sorting and the alternator light stays on, it blows black smoke like a railways loco and has that positive steering feel a bit like a houseboat, has serious gaps between the gears... but it does go ok once you get it over about 90km/h.... till it gets hot

Nothing that can't be fixed so it looks like we have added yet another vehicle to the fleet.