My Old Faithful: a 1994 Toyota Hilux 4×4 double-cab with the 22R 2.4 litre petrol engine.
I bought it in 2001 with something like 140,000km on the odometer, one careful owner who had retired to the Cape and taken the car with him. This meant I had to go and collect it: a 5 day adventure over the Independence Day public holiday.
Since then BABS has worked hard and now sits on 510,000km in semi-retirement carrying rubbish to the tip, collecting building materials and acting as stand-in when other vehicles are out of service.
The only major interventions have been engine rebuilds after timing chain failure: the first one top-end only and the second a full strip-down.
