- The couple converted a Coca-Cola truck for living while exploring Australia.
- Paul Battenery and Clara Trindal paid $17,500 for the vehicle and took 11 months to complete it.
- It has a queen size bed, kitchen, bathroom, dining area and surfboard storage.
Paul Battenery and Clara Trindal are from Australia but met while traveling and working in Japan.
They always wanted to explore a vast country roughly the size of the United States.
“We started looking into buying a camper van and looked at some vans, but many of them were very small and I’m very tall, so the ceiling height wasn’t great. “Then I came across a Coca-Cola truck, bought it in 2021, and started modifying it.”
For the next 11 months, the 32-year-old spent weekday afternoons and weekends fixing a 2005 Isuzu truck ($17,500).
“When I bought the truck, I was living in a shared house with friends in a coastal city in New South Wales, so I was working on it in my spare time after work,” he said. “I’m a carpenter, so I had all the skills needed to make it, so it wasn’t too difficult.”
The Wollongong resident couple moved into a tiny house on wheels in November 2021 and spent the year saving up cash for their dream trip.
They embarked on their journey in January 2020 with around A$40,000 in adventure funds.