Thread: What car would you / have you considered for a big lap or RTW trip?

Originally Posted by V8Ian

Goldwing or BMW 1200 Adventure, not sure that my body would cope these days.

Had my BMW K100 RS Sydney- Melb, Adelaide, Perth, Shark Bay and several other not quite that far trips. I should have kept going around!

Sold it in Perth sadly. My Navy Kit bag and gear sack was enough with two fishing rods looking like radio aerials. No cool panniers for me

Love to do that again



The RT version would have been smarter than mine

hmm not that much BMW R 1200 GS Adventure bikes for sale in Australia - bikesales.com.au

Francis Birtles did London to Melbourne in a Bean back in 1927 but they are probably difficult to track down nowadays.
His car is in the National Museum of Australia. Birtles and the Sundowner car | National Museum of Australia

Looks like a reenactment by Warren Brown in his Bean later this year.
Birtles and the Bean: a reenactment trip from England to Australia - Australian Motor Heritage Foundation
Better roads now, sorry....there are road now all the way. Birtles was cutting his way through Jungles.

Round the World by sea in a Jeep GPA ?
Ben Carlin - Wikipedia

I think you could do the trip in almost any vehicle nowadays, depends how comfortable you want to be.


Colin

Not so much RTW but when i was in Zimbabwe our Aussie truck driver had an ex WWII MAN 6x6 truck he used for touring Africa, huge truck with massive portal diffs that could almost drive over a mini, i thought that would make a great overland vehicle.

if your into classic cars, the nutters that own those little 2cvs do "raids" every year. It is a very minimalist way to travel, as weight is your enemy if you wish to travel in a 2cv.

Raid Australia – Home of the 2CV Raids in Australia

here's the australian "raid" website. Be warned, you need to be to have a remote area 4wd type mentality to go on these. You're not going to be towing everything behind ... or even carrying a fridge most likely. If you own a 2cv, nearly every country in the world seems to do these "raids".... you can go anywhere with like minded people. nearly anything can be fixed on the side of the road.

The 2cv guru (2cViking) aka: Peter Fosselius has just shifted back to australia. so google up his name if your interested and he can point you in the right direction.