vehicles
Through dust & time, on roads untamed,
Where maps end & myths are named.
Steel &leather, hands worn & true,
Built for the few who chase the view.
For the seekers, the roamers, the ones who dare,
Through desert sun & mountain air.
Where silence hums & the winds confide,
These wheels don’t follow - they decide.
Beyond the borders, past the known,
With every turn, the wild is shown.
No tethered life, no well-worn track,
Just the pull of the world & no looking back.
For the restless hearts, for those who roam,
These are more than vehicles, for they are home.
Where maps end & myths are named.
Steel &leather, hands worn & true,
Built for the few who chase the view.
For the seekers, the roamers, the ones who dare,
Through desert sun & mountain air.
Where silence hums & the winds confide,
These wheels don’t follow - they decide.
Beyond the borders, past the known,
With every turn, the wild is shown.
No tethered life, no well-worn track,
Just the pull of the world & no looking back.
For the restless hearts, for those who roam,
These are more than vehicles, for they are home.
Spirit Of Adventure
Every Leaden Hearts vehicle is a restoration of more than just metal and gears. It is a resurrection of a way of being, a philosophy of movement that refuses to be rushed. We don’t build for comfort, for ease, for empty luxury. We build for purpose, for endurance, for those who understand that the journey is not about getting somewhere - it’s about the road itself.
Leaden Hearts vehicles are not just machines – they are a call to those who seek the untamed, the forgotten, the raw and real. It doesn’t just take you from one place to another. It pulls you into the story of the land itself, into the rhythm of movement that’s older than maps, older than roads, older than any of us.
We don’t just restore old trucks, or build out old vans – we resurrect them. We listen to them, run our hands over their bones, and bring them back to life the way a storyteller pulls the past into the present to continue writing its tales into the future. This is a craft passed down through blood and grease-stained hands – from grandfather to father, father to son. These machines have shaped us as much as we have shaped them. I was a boy, standing beside my grandfather and father as they turned wrenches on old utes and vintage cars, watching him bring steel and grit back from the edge. He’d close his eyes, listen to the engine like it was whispering secrets only he could hear, and then he’d get to work, knowing exactly what it needed.
We didn’t just fix things. We honored them. The stories, the history, the scars- they weren’t something to erase, they were something to preserve. Machines, like people, hold memory in their bones.
Now, we build these trucks for those who understand that driving is more than getting somewhere – it’s a way of being. For those who know that a road is never just a road, but a conversation with the land, a test of who you are, a negotiation between steel and soil. A Leaden Hearts vehicle carries the old ways forward, built for those who are ready to take the road less traveled, to sit with the land, to listen, to learn.
It’s a story forged in metal, a spirit of adventure in every bolt. Fixed on Country, tested in the dust and heat, proven on roads where maps mean nothing. These rigs don’t just drive – they breathe, they endure, they carry the weight of history with them. And every time you turn the key, you’re not just starting an engine. You’re stepping into something much bigger than yourself. Because this road never really ends. It just keeps rolling forward.
Built for those who chase horizons, forged for the roads that never end.
a story forged in metal, a spirit of adventure in every bolt.
Land Rover
Series 3 ’82 / Available
Series 2A ’71 / Available
Series 2A ’68 / Under Construction
Australian Defence Force Decommissioned 110 / Under Construction
Australian Defence Force Decommissions 110 Mobile Cafe / Under Development
Toyota
Troop Carrier ’71 / Under Construction
Troop Carrier ’99 / Under Construction
Toyota
Coaster ’88 Tiny Home / Available
Coaster ’94 Tiny Home / Sold
Ford
E350 Expedition Edition / Sold
Mercedes
Sprinter Motorhome / Sold
Custom
Commissioned builds
Available
series 3 '82
This isn’t just a Land Rover. This is the machine built for those who don’t ask where the road goes - they just follow it. The Leaden Hearts Series 3 Expedition Edition is a fully restored, fully equipped off-grid home on wheels, designed for the ones who know that home isn’t a place - it’s wherever the wheels stop turning.
She field-tested, country-proven, expedition-ready, holds the past in its steel and the future in its wheels.
Available
Series 2A '70
Built in an era when steel was steel and craftsmanship meant something, this Land Rover has lived through decades of roads, river crossings, mountain climbs, and campfires that burned long into the night. It has carried men, firewood, and stories long before you, and it will carry you still, into the quiet places where the world feels real. With its timeless silhouette, canvas soft-top, and that unmistakable front grille, this Series IIA is more than a Land Rover - it’s a relic of adventure, a symbol of roads less traveled, a companion to those who understand that driving isn’t just about getting somewhere - it’s about the journey itself.
Available
Coaster '88
Yirradhu isn’t just an old country school bus - it’s a journey, a promise, a way to move through the world with intention. Named from the Wiradjuri word meaning ‘to come home,’ she is more than transport, more than shelter - she is a space to return to, a place where the road and the sky and the earth meet in quiet conversation.
She has taken me across this vast country, through red dust and salt air, through winding mountain roads and desert plains, and now, she is ready for someone who hears the same call, who understands that home isn’t a place - it’s a way of moving through the world.
SOLD
Coaster '94
It is a home in motion, a rolling sanctuary for those who feel the pull of the ocean and the lure of the open road. This space was built to be lived in. For dreams filled with waves crashing and wheels turning. This isn’t just travel—it’s belonging to the land, to the road, to the rhythm of a life well-lived. Waking up with the first light, pulling open the curtains to an untouched stretch of beach. Driving a wild stretch of highway where the desert meets the sea. Or laying on the rooftop somewhere you’ve never been, but you’ll never forget. This is not about leaving everything behind - it’s about taking what matters most with you.
Sold
E350 Overlander
Some spaces feel like home the second you step inside. This is one of them. A handcrafted retreat on wheels, a rolling hideaway for those who want the warmth of a cabin but the freedom of the road. Maybe it’s the mountains, where mist lingers in the morning air, curling around your coffee mug. Maybe it’s the open plains, where the sky stretches so wide it swallows you whole. A toast to the bold, the fierce, and the free, Whose spirits are unchained, whose hearts beat fiercely.
Sold
Sprinter
A sanctuary for the wanderer, the dreamer, the storyteller. A rolling wood cabin, crafted with intention, designed to slow time, to hold space, to welcome in the world while still feeling like home. Built for solitude and company alike, for the nights spent alone beneath the stars and the days spent gathering stories along the way. This is not just a home- it is a vessel for the kind of life most people only dream about. Take it to the mountains. Park it by the ocean. Disappear for a while, or maybe forever.
You don’t own a Leaden Hearts truck. You step into its story, and it steps into yours. These machines aren’t just steel and rubber, bolts and gears. They are homes that move, shelters that roam, tools for survival in a world that’s forgotten how to live outside the grid.
We don’t just restore old rigs. We resurrect them, rework them, reimagine them into self-sufficient, field-tested, country-proven homes on wheels. They aren’t built for the showroom. They’re built for the mountain tracks, the desert plains, the red dirt roads that stretch beyond the edge of the known world.
We take the old bones of Land Rover Series, vans, vehicles that cross our path with history, with lineage, with road stories carved into their steel – and we turn them into the ultimate off-grid tiny homes. Built for those who know that home isn’t a fixed address. Home is wherever the wheels stop turning.
Every Leaden Hearts build comes equipped with everything you need to disappear into the wild and still have everything that matters:
•Solar panels to harness the sun, keeping your power flowing long after the roads fade to dust.
•Power inverters so you can run your tools, charge your gear, and stay connected—if you choose to be.
•Running water & showers because we believe in getting dirty, but also in washing it all away at the end of the day.
•Compact kitchens because food tastes better when it’s cooked in the open air, under a sky so wide it swallows you whole.
•Storage & sleeping spaces designed for real living, not just weekend trips. Your gear, your tools, your books, your world—everything in its place, ready when you are.
•Rugged, tested, built to last—because these trucks aren’t just for getting you there. They’re for keeping you there, for however long the land calls you to stay.
More Than a Vehicle – A Way of Living
This isn’t van life. This isn’t some polished Instagram dream. This is something older, something deeper, something raw. The way people moved before borders and fences, before ownership meant concrete walls. These trucks aren’t just a way to get from A to B. They are a way to unlearn the limits the world put on you. A way to remember that life happens out there, in the vastness, in the stillness, in the space where no one is watching.
Your Road Is Waiting
You could wait. You could sit in your house, staring at the same four walls, talking about the road trips you’ll take one day, the adventures you’ve been meaning to do, the life you wish you were living.
Or you could step into the machine, turn the key, and go.
A Leaden Hearts truck isn’t just a car. It’s a decision. It’s the choice to step into the unknown, to trust the road, to live the way humans were meant to – connected, untamed, and unbound.
So here it is. The chance to build your life, to build your home, to take the road.
Where you go next is up to you.
