New Zealand
Housetrucks at the Nambassa 5 day festival 1981.
Housetruckers are individuals, families and groups who convert old trucks and school buses into mobile-homes and live in them, preferring an unattached and transient gypsy lifestyle to more conventional housing. These unique vehicles began appearing around New Zealand during the mid-1970s and even though there are fewer today they continue to adorn New Zealand roads. An early manifestation of this culture was the Blerta (1970-1973) travelling circus of music,light theatre and art. This involved a well known New Zealand actor Bruno Lawrence and 30 or 40 hangers on who travelled around the country in a clapped out Bedford bus and sung, wrote and did hippy art. Most of the riders were radicals, hippies, groovers and free thinkers. They attracted a following and had a hit single with "Dance around the world" which was nominated for the Loxene Golden Disc in 1971, a local musical award at the time. After 1973 the Project ran out of steam, and Lawrence turned his hand back to acting in such movies as "Smash Palace" in 1981. [1]
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