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steptoe wrote:did I miss something on gearbox troubles ? I am betting it was the oldest car seen crosing the continent !

There was a gearbox problem, I'll let Bennie elaborate on that one

Apparently there were some other cars from the same era on the road as well.

Wicked vans come to mind from memory.

TOONGA

steptoe wrote:did I miss something on gearbox troubles ? I am betting it was the oldest car seen crosing the continent !

Yeah steptoe, I need some time to do a write up where all shall be explained! But the short of it was a gearbox rebuild was performed before we headed back east...

A wicked camper or two were seen, not as many as our trip over and they seem to be getting newer too.

At Kiki (SA) we saw an unfortunate situation where a family had managed to get their hired Mani Winnebago hitched up on the Armco (correct name for that type of road safety barrier?) on the opposite side to the road in the middle of some road "safety" cameras. I bet the cameras didn't see that one coming!

I'm yet to tally up fuel usages and total cost etc. But oddly enough we made ten fuel stops on the way over and the same on the return trip...

Odometre is now 503815

Cheers

Bennie