Blinding Rain, Big Bananas and Roadside Dramas: I Took Project Cactus On A 1,400 Mile Interstate Roadtrip

Regular readers would no doubt be familiar with Project Cactus, the 1969 Valiant Ute that David Tracy and I threw together with the help of a good dozen Aussies (and also the car-gods) in the span of about three weeks. We took that thing from a beat-up shell into a road-tripping beast, against all odds. Now it’s been over a year; here’s how this automotive miracle is holding up.

A reminder of Project Cactus’ legendary status. It began as this:

And somehow became…