Awesome overview of your trip......
Recently I ( and mate in a 79) returned from a 3 week trip from Vic to Nullabor Roadhouse to Vokes Hill Corner, Laverton WA, up the Great Central Road to Uluru and home more or less vi the bitumen.
My 300k+ D1 tdi didnt miss a beat. Used about 100ml of oil. The wash up - drivers window seized about a day from home when a channel roller broke.
Otherwise - no issues at all.
There were several days of pretty crap corrugations and over 2500km of dirt overall.
We timed the weather beautifully as we saw no rain and ahad some beautiful crisp days to start with but plenty of 30 plus days once we got into WA.
And because no permits were being issued for the section Vokes Hill to Coober Pedy while we were travellling (due to military activities in the Woomera exclusion zone) there was much less traffic than usual.
We saw one vehicle between Cook and Ilkurlka over about 5 days. Fantastic. The point of the trip was to complete the Anne Beadell as we did the Coober Pedy to Vokes section a few years ago..another point was to get back in our beautiful remote desert country - I love it and seem to need a desert fix every year or 3.
D1 is a D1..it did struggle with roof basket and expedition load into some annoying headwinds where cruising boost and egt were higher than usual and this made fuel consumption higher than expected for the highway sections.
Once on the GCR there was a lot of traffic - and landrovers as rare as hens teeth. I have never seen so few landys on a trip....or so many Rangers.
Will post some pics at some stage when I get around to it.
Awesome overview of your trip......
Laverton. GCR. All my old haunts. Used to go up and down there a lot for my old job in an old 70 series 4.2. Once you got near the NT border was my favourite section
Looking forward to seeing pictures. Been a long time.
Brilliant, edddo. Did you take the time to remember Anne's husband, Len Beadell, who mapped that entire area in a Series 1. ( well, 10 Series 1s ). Not many Landies these days, but Landies were all you would see back in the day.
Len Beadell - Wikipedia
JayTee
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2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
Guess the Leonard Track was named after him? What a legend.
To my shame, I don't know. But it's likely. Len was a very funny orator, and spoke well about his times. There are tapes he made about his times. They are interesting in their subject, hilarious in their delivery, and priceless in their history. I'm struggling to find them, but you can buy them... That might be best. Google Len Beadell talks. The man was hilarious, and brilliant.
JayTee
Nullus Anxietus
Getting involved in discussions is the best way to learn.
2000 D2 TD5 Auto: Tins
1994 D1 300TDi Manual: Dave
1980 SIII Petrol Tray: Doris
OKApotamus #74
Nanocom, D2 TD5 only.
Indeed
Have read a few of his books.
Visited the Giles meteorological station on the way....his old grader is there..apparently it did about 7000km of road!
We did the abandoned section of the Gunbarrel just prior to that...keen to do more of his tracks in future trips. Incredible how much work he did out there.
Pics? ...
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