A young couple turned a Coca-Cola truck into a tiny home on wheels and now live rent-free
Paul Battenally and Clara Trindall are both from Australia, but met while traveling and working in Japan."We started looking into getting a motorhome and saw a few vans but a lot of them were quite small and I'm very tall, so the ceiling height wasn't great," Battenally told Insider."Then we came across the Coca-Cola truck, purchased it in 2021 and started converting it.
The 32-year-old spent weekday afternoons and weekends over the next 11 months doing up the 2005 Isuzu truck, which cost $17,500. "When I bought the truck I was living in a shared house with a bunch of friends in a coastal city in New South Wales and so I was working on it in my free time after work," he said."I'm a carpenter so I had all the skills necessary to build it and it wasn't too challenging for me."
The couple, who were living in Wollongong, moved into their tiny home on wheels in November 2021 and spent a year living in it while saving cash for their dream trip.The couple spent about A$17,000 on appliances, electrics, plumbing and fixtures and A$8,000 on materials to fit out the truck.Paul and Clara are now living rent-free and spend about A$500 a week on fuel and food.The truck has a queen-sized bed, a kitchen with an oven and gas stove, a compost toilet and shower.
Clara, 27, a registered nurse, sells art to bring in some cash, while Paul does some carpentry work when it's available.The couple have a A$10,000 kitty for diesel and most of their expenditure is on fuel and food.The truck draws a lot of attention when they staying at camp sites and people often want to take a look inside.They plan to live in it for around a year while traveling around Australia and might stay in it while renovating a house in 2024.
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