Francis Birtles Pioneer Trip

We are taking a short cut home from the new England tablelands to home mid next week. So when your getting close to Taree hopefully we can get a glimpse of this beautiful car cruising along

Lang wrote:

We are hoping to get away 01 August. Finish is planned for Sunday 18 August at Linfox Car Museum in Melbourne.

You can see there are 4 days fat in the plan. It looks like one may be used as a lay day in Canberra at the National Museum. The other days are for slips to be used as required to meet the Melbourne date. Benalla may become Albury.

Day 1      Darwin  Mataranka               422
        2     Tennant Creek                       567
        3     Camooweal                           471
        4      McKinlay                              417
        5      Blackall                                 633
        6      Roma                                    487
        7      Brisbane                               477
        8      Brisbane            Lay Day
        9      Port MacQuarrie                   560
       10     Sydney                                 391
       11     Sydney                Lay Day
       12    Canberra                               286
       13    Benalla                                  452
       14    Melbourne                             213


so how is the time line looking Lang

Has it shifted much or are you still aiming to be roughly in these spots at these dates

Paul 
 

They have just Darwin

The proposed BEAN program is tomorrow 14 August we leave Cloncurry for Longreach.
15 Aug Morven
16 Aug Dalby or Toowoomba
Saturday 17 Aug arrive Brisbane
Sunday 18 Aug Open greeting at the Veteran Car Club premises 1376 Old Cleveland Road, Carindale. We will be there from 0830 until lunch time, all welcome.
Monday 19 Aug day in the shed at home doing full routine service.
Tue 20 Aug we will get to Maclean/Grafton area.
Wed 21 Aug Port Macquarie
Thur 22 TBA
Fri 23 TBA
Sat 24 arrive Sydney stay "somewhere Western Suburbs"
Sun 25 Feature car Shannons Sydney Classic at Sydney Motorsport Park, Eastern Creek.
Mon 26 Canberra
Tue 27 Canberra
Wed onwards to Melbourne probable official finish Lindsay Fox Car Collection Docklands on Sunday morning.
All this is subject to breakdown, illness, act of God and any other untoward turn of events!

After our biggest leg of the trip (717km from Morven to Brisbane) the Bean is back in the driveway at home where it all started.

Heading off again on Tuesday for all stations south.


 

 

There's no place like home I always reckon

Well done Lang and Bev, oh and the Bean as well

Paul

Brilliant job and congratulations on yet another memorable trip.

You are both living the dream that so many of us would like to be doing but never achieve, at least we can follow your experiences, thanks.  

Hi Lang, did you get the talshaft sorted out?

They called late yesterday to say the engineering was finished and they would fit the repaired universal this morning. We will get away whenever it is done even if we have to drive in the dark to Grafton this evening.

Had the absolute pleasure to meet both Bev and Lang today as they cruised past home on the highway. I got updates from the trucks on the UHF with their latest position. 
The Bean is a beautiful machine and sounds lovely. Is longer than I expected but stands just right on the road. What a marvellous achievement they have  made on this epic journey following Francis Birtles drive all those years ago.reading of the travels as updates were made then remade to avoid conflicts to now see it back here in Australia is fantastic. With just over 1000 klms to go the Bean is in fine fettle and up for the job.
Thanks for taking the time to pull up, meet and have a chat.