WHITE WOLF

Queensland-based aftermarket gear supplier, AFN 4x4 Australia, gives us the keys to a wildly modified HiLux.

WORDS BY BRUCE MCMAHON PHOTOS BY ELLEN DEWAR

IT IS ALL pretty much black and white for AFN’s Gavin Duffield. He believes there’s a ready-made local market for Australian-sorted, Portuguese-made protection gear for 4x4 utes and wagons. To drive the point home, Gavin has given a new Toyota HiLux the black-and-white treatment as a 24/7 rolling advert. The result is a head-turning, out-of-my-way cruiser, which owes its charms both to cosmetic touches and some AFN gear. Portuguese-based AFN has supplied gear – from bullbars to turret guns – for the likes of United Nations and NATO vehicles for some time. But there’s also scope for products for civilian machinery, the most notable being bullbars tailored for specific vehicles. AFN concentrates on protective kit, from bars to underbody shields. Wolf 4x4 in Brisbane became the Australian distributor for AFN back in 2014,…

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4x4 Magazine Australia (Digital) - 1 Issue, June 2016

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