What got you started??....4WD ETC

""I got to get me one of those one day""

did you sell the navara?? :):):)

Hey Stefan,
How are ya....... Yes I have to admit the little nissan is a very capable 4wd....... Just not made very well..... :)

re #2... I used to luv his stories in Wheels... will have to attempt to track that book down!

Cheers, Nige.

re # 3
"BANKCARD" !!!
Have you done it this way???

Cheers Cam

Cam,
Not sure what "Bankcard" means, but the Redgum song that did it for me was this, and it was written before the Stuart Highway was sealed:

THE LAST FRONTIER
There's a corrugated highway Leading north from Port Augusta
lined with ratted cars that didn't rate a tow
The Salt plains out of Pimba And your eyes begin to stream
On to Kingoonya huddled dusty by the road
Romantic notions bleep tered Like the tyres that didn't hack it
This has got to be the country's last frontier
Where a sports car's next to useless Running cattle grids and river beds
We drove a van from 1963

Someone mentioned walkabout And kiss your job goodbye
Just to see the country shimmer through the windscreen
Drinking beer, telling stories While laughter filled the night
And flexi-time's behind you like a bad dream

You got a flat on Anzac Highway And Lawson on your shelf
Its a Southern Comfort, air-conditioned rage
Where a homestead's more than just a cheap print Dangling from a wall
And mateship's more than lines upon a page

We went looking for Australia In between the TV lines
'Cause the ABC just couldn't make it real
Colour documentary From a beanbag on the floor:
Never shows as much as it conceals

A stark and blistered Alice Springs And a river runs with shame
And you wipe the sheets of bulldust from your eyes
Another country's uniform And the mirage it falls apart
To the open gap between the truth and lies

Go and see your country, mate The travel agents scream
Politicians sell it's hard to score a pasttime
Signs and high-wire fences Hold the land where I belong
It's as if I'm in the outback for the last time

Nige,
Yeah Jeff Carter was a very accomplished photo journalist - he wrote a fair bit in Overlander too.
Here's link for the book.

Sorry Phil,
I thought you may have been referring to the song also by the same name on that album. He suggests a cunning plan to see your country using a "bankcard" for the cost of only $50. But of course if you hear a knock on the door when you get home you've probably just been "Caught in the act".
Also yes The Last Frontier is very good and often to the point.
I still enjoy listening to this very down to earth aussie group and cherish my vinyl disks.

Cheers Cam
PS thanks for the lyrics. I've never written them down because everytime I've thought about it, my mind wanders to the trips I've been on and I forget what I was doing.

Thanks Cam, I hadn't listened that closely to the title song.
Can usually Google the lyrics: Redgum lyrics

My first car a 64 Simca good car, they were ok.