5 Days and Counting..
5 days to go! Updating all the decals on the vehicles for each journey is a big job! Today I had
6 Days to the Off!
Hello everyone! Only 6 days to go now. Next Tuesday, I leave home with my lovely Rattler on the back of
Check out this Gadget!
Check out this gadget! This ground anchor will come in very handy on The Great Rattler Run. Rod https://www.facebook.com/100010111000238/videos/335769343436763/
9 Days to go!
Hello everyone! Only 9 days to go until I hit the road and head south. Take a look at my lovely
Repair Day!!
Today was repair day on the Rattler to dress up the mudguards that I flared with a pipe wrench when
13 Days to Lift Off!
Only 13 days to go before lift off!! I’m into the night shift now and thinking through just what is needed
What A Day!!
What a day!!! I took the Fuso 4wd to Ray at The Tyre Professionals Nerang and the huge Michelin single tyres
Rattler Trailer Rebuild
The trailer needed a full rebuild following The Desert Rattler Run. New springs, new electric brakes and wiring, and a complete
Waterproofing the Rattler
Today, being Sunday, is my family day, and a day of reflection. But when there is so much to prepare
The Canopy Arrives!!
The canopy arrives!!!! Crew member Mark from Wicked Fabrications that makes all things aluminium and stainless steel for my cars and
2 Weeks to Off!
It's now only about 2 weeks until I leave home and set off for Tasmania with the Rattler. So I
Jardine River – Great Rattler Crossing
One of the crossings for the Great Rattler Run team will be the Jardine River
Cape York June / July 2016
Want an idea of what Rod and the Great Rattler Run team face
All the Brest
The last lap of yesterday’s test section just outside of Brest, Belarus, spelt drama for the Vintage Adventurer crew. The
Racing Wheels!
The Vintage Adventurer crew departed Nizhny Novgorod drove 40k to the N-Ring race track. The crews had to do two
Ruby ready for the off!
After months of hard graft, vintage adventurer Rode Wade and his navigator Austen Ritchie have finished the work on the
Putting Ruby to the Test
Rod is well into the final stages of completing the rebuild of the 1930 Model A Ford Fordor ‘Ruby’ for
Ruby’s rebuild for P2P begins
Work has began on the 1930 Ford Model A ‘Fordor’ named Ruby that will be crewed by Rod Wade and
Gearing up for Peking to Paris 2016
It seems that ‘vintage adventurer’ Rod Wade can’t get enough of motoring challenges - so much so that he’s taking
