When less is more in four by four

If you thought you needed the latest Landcruiser with all the whistles and bells to head bush, think again.
Despite the hundreds of kilometres of rough-as-guts bush tracks surrounding the community I'm living in here, there's only one person with a four-wheel drive, and as you can see, it's no late model Landcruiser.
Instead, it's a 41 year-old Nissan Patrol and, while indeed a four-wheel drive (or '4x4'), I often think the 4x4 refers to four completely different tyres, or four different panel colours, or four places that haven't rusted over.
Yet, despite the shabby, scrapyard-like appearance, I'll often find the Patrol, and its owner, Les, in places I'd never dream of taking my (bells and whistles equipped) 4x4. Whether a fast flowing river, or a road turned black with bog, Les manages to get the Patrol across - and, perhaps more importantly, back across - without a worry in the world.
More often than not, he'll do it with a full load, which in most Aboriginal communities, means at least 10 people (and fishing gear and crab pots and eskies and dogs and everything else) squeezing into a car built for five - although that's working on the principle of passengers sitting in the car, and not on it.