Never a dull moment keeping the Texas Tortuga (a Mercedes 1017A) and the Gelandewagen running.
What happens when you want to go one more mile down the road and common sense tells you the Tortuga Truck should not go with you? A 20,000 pound truck just might not be the right vehicle because of its size, weight, or ability to recover if you got in trouble. The answer to get down[…]
Everywhere the Tortuga goes, people are curious. What kind of truck is it? Where does the Tortuga go? What kind of adventures has the Tortuga had? In efforts to share the Tortuga’ adventures just another mile down the road, this website was born. To help share the Tortuga’s adventures, Apple Signs of Houston, Texas created a vinyl decal for the side and back[…]
The Tortuga Truck is a symphony of systems all working together to create a great adventure vehicle. Batteries, voltage converters, winches, generators, refrigerators, bilge pumps — all working as a system of systems, orchestrated in the signal purpose to go one more mile down the road. One of the stand-out features of the Tortuga Truck[…]