MINI CROSSES THE SIMPSON - WITH HELP!!

Yes some parts graded smooth but others severely gouged out with excessive wheelspin. Then there's driving on salt lakes too - but so did Reg Sprigg.LOL How times and rules have changed. Link to full article, video and pix follows....W

http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor-news/mighty-mini-20120322-1vlmi.html

Here here Matt,

Cheers Wilko

Yep Jeff
I went with the crew that took the falcon across the Simpson in the late 70's & it did well but we could of taken anything across even if it did not have wheels with the support gear on hand, & at the time, most of us felt it was sending the wrong msg, but we got paid & it was trip away so we went with it, some of us were involved with the denning bus crossing as well but hell every body shovelled & pushed that trip NO catering van with that one

NOW I FEEL STUPID. I didn;t check the Drive piece before I responded.
Thats NOT cool. That's just dumb.

P and M, that's a great trip down memory lane. My Hema Aust Road Atlas book page 66 shows no track form Coward to Billa but you did it. How so and could it be done in 2012 or would there be too many forms to fill out? PS. Where's the front right guard in the lower pic or is the tyre just really wide?.............W

Hi Warrie.
In 1970 there was the remnants of an old track that ran along the southern side of the Margaret River, but much of it was simply missing and we relied on compass bearings for much of the way.
We ran twin 12'' wheels on the front in an effort to get some flotation in the sand. Not too successful.
When we got to Billla Kalina, Tom(??) Greenfield did not believe we had come through the way we did. He reckoned that there had not been a vehicle all the way through there in 20 years.

It was wet in 1995, but also there were some fences in the way which weren't there in 1970. The Greenfields were still there, and are now too.

Cheers,
Peter

I look forward to see all the abadoned mini's in the Simpson on my next trip.
I could fill up the back of the cruiser & sell the bits to help pay for fuel.

Hamo