Weak city cars on bush tracks

Yes, it would be great to sit around a campfire at night and listen to his stories.

Honky

Mick have you seen a ABC tv show Bush mechanics it is on utube

they really know how to fix a car

Soooooo....... Reg Sprigg and Len Beadell not hero's?

I don't consider myself a hero but I used to drive on the tracks out from Woomera in the fifties in a low clearance city ute.......... an FJ Holden. It did a great job.

Nothing wrong with weak city cars on bush tracks :-)

Why are the drivers of weak city cars the real hero's of outback travel Mick? (Mick O, I know you and your mates drive non weak city cars so you're off the hook)


Baz.

hmmm.. not always so wonderful ... having once towed one of these "weak city cars" many kms to their campsite (after they had already abandoned one vehicle & were probably going to do the same to the 3rd very sick sounding vehicle).

Hi Mick

Yes there are indeed some real great characters out there for sure. Not sure where you are from, but i could give you another great contact from a couple that I know and live not far from where I live in Clare South Australia.

The couple that I am referring to where the ones that made the Nippon Highway in Western Australia back in the 1970's. One EO Member has already been in contact with me and had made contact with them.

If you would like to find out any more, please do not hesitate to get in contact with me.


Cheers



Stephen

Some may not know that the first car to the top of Cape York in 1928 was a 7hp Baby Austin.
They did not have much trouble with corrugations........... most of the trip was along horse pads.

Incidentally, my first car was a 1927 baby Austin 7, but I never drove it to Cape York.
No, I didn't buy it from new! Bought it in 1949.
The "shock absorbers" were simple fibre friction pads but worked, sort of!

In the late sixties & early to late seventies then into the eighties, my father & I, then mates & I (when legal ;) ) used to do a lot of Rabbit, Fox, Roo & Pig shooting in central & western NSW.

We never had 4wds, only 2wd Holden's & Fords, yes we'd get bogged occasionally & on one memorable occasion I managed to drive the HQ into a ravine bending the gearbox cross member, that was fixed with a hot fire & by a lot of belting with the back of an axe.

Never had had fridges, just eskys, no fancy swags, just canvas tarps & maybe a flash pup tent if it rained.

Always had a ball, now it seems that we "need" every modern appliance to get by, we seem to have to load ourselves down to the point where we need to get a bigger 4wd every year.

We've gone from Weak Cars & Tough People
To Tougher Cars & Weaker People
& we still get into trouble sometimes .............

Cheers