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New Zealand Couple Turns Dingy Cargo Truck Into A Quaint Country Home
New Zealand Couple Turns Dingy Cargo Truck Into A Quaint Country Home-September 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:13:20

Alex and Hannah spent about a year turning this 1986 Hino flatbed truck into a beautiful cabin on wheels, which came out looking a lot better than every fort I've tried to make. Alex reckons his house will do a quarter mile in "at least thirty seconds."

As Hannah explains; "We needed something to live in so we thought, well, why don't we just build a housetruck?"

I mean, wow. What a woman.

's Matt Farah has been cruising around New Zealand looking at incredible cars, but I don't know how he's going to top this mobile palace.

Andrew P. Collins is Jalopnik's off-road and adventure guy. Shoot him an email at or hit him up on Twitter to talk trucks.

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