4x4 Magazine Australia

THE TRADESMAN

YOU CAN learn a lot about someone by the vehicle they drive. The size of their tyres, the shine of their paint, the number of outback pub stickers slathered up and down their door trims and dash. But like most things in life, a quick snapshot doesn’t tell the whole story, and neither does just one vehicle.

Eagle-eyed readers may pick the name Taylor Shaw from a yarn a year or two back about a bright-eyed apprentice, who rolled up the spanners and set to work building his own adventure machine. He was an apprentice in both work and life, learning the ins and outs of

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