A FOUR-YEAR-OLD ute-obsessed outdoorsman from outback NSW has been dubbed "the luckiest kid in Australia" after his welder father built him his very own working Land Cruiser.

Young Billy Beckett's perfectly realised mini-ute features upholstered seats, a radio, snorkel, swag bag, spotlight, roo bar and chunky tyres.

Enjoying an idyllic rural life in West Wyalong, 500km west of Sydney, Billy wears cowboy boots and plaid shirt to pre-school and enjoys hunting, fishing and sleeping under the stars.

Most of all he loves his dad's Toyota Hi-Lux.

The love affair was cemented last spring during an epic family road-trip bush bashing and pig hunting in remote Cape York, Far North Queensland.

"Billy's ute mad," his mother Tanea says. "He loves his dad and he loves his ute. He loves getting bogged, loves going off road. He really loves it."

As soon as the youngster gets home from Bland Shire Preschool he heads out to shift rocks around behind the family home.

"If he's not happy about coming in he actually threatens to take off, so we make sure there's never much fuel in the tank," she joked.

Billy's father Quentin began building his son's ute in November, working at evenings and weekends.

After he finished the vehicle last week, Mrs Beckett snapped this picture.

On Wednesday the professional children's photographer uploaded the photograph to Facebook, and all hell broke loose.

"Possibly the best father in the world," wrote one commentator. s

"The luckiest kid in the universe and he knows it, even got the dog on the back."

"Just when you thought this was as Aussie as you could get, there's a Commodore in the background," pointed out another user.

The youngest of ten children, Billy's dad is a skilled welder who designs machinery to collect scrap metal in the central NSW bushlands.

Before Billy's ute he built a working Thomas the Tank Engine replica for his boss's son that can go on rails or drive down the street.

Billy, who has shelved dreams of being a cowboy, bull rider, or police "copper" in favour of becoming a fireman, is an all round outdoorsman.

He rides a motorbike, plays in the dirt in the truck, goes fishing in the river and likes wakeboarding with his father.

Billy only drives the customised vehicle, built on a go kart frame, on the family property.

Originally published as Bush boy Billy is just cruisin'