Picture me Rollin’

Don’t get me wrong here; I love the so-called swamper look on pretty much anything. One of my bucket list vehicles is a vintage Unimog, coincidentally in the shade of orange you see here – search Unimog Niederflurhubwagen on Google if you want your mind blown and love the idea of a vintage car transporter. Anyway, I digress. I love the look so much that I fitted large chunky tyres to my Bay Window Pickup and there’s no denying that it looked pretty badass, especially when most air-cooled VW’s at shows are still lowered.

But to find the main reason why the swamper look is taking off, you only have to have owned a lowered camper and witnessed the trauma of grounding out on an unmade road, a campsite, or a beach car park. Lowered cars look cool; there’s a big part of me that thinks that any