When Harry Strange is bored on his family farm, he goes to the tip to find motors he can fix.

The 11-year-old lives with his parents and two brothers at Bruce Rock, 240 kilometres east of Perth in the heart of Western Australia's Wheatbelt.

Harry has made a habit of bringing old motors back from the farm tip and fixing them up.

But one afternoon earlier this year, he found something special.

"I went down the tip hunting for a little engine to restore and while I was hunting around I found a 1970s FJ45 Toyota LandCruiser and I thought, 'I gotta have that,'" he said.

A restoration years in the making

However, the car was owned by family friend Colin Turner, so he needed to be tracked down first.

Mr Turner said he had been given the car 15 years earlier.

"I planned to sort of restore

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