Back to the Track

At least we dont have the machine guns and searchlihhts yet.

Yet. This is exactly the way it is going on the Ahnenpass will be back before you know it.

End of the road.

Sailing along heading towards 3 ways. Loud crunching noises and top gear retired hurt. Ten km into renner springs in second to consider our options.

Looked up to see a car carrier stopping for a break.

There are certainly some good people in the world. Zak the owner of the small rkt transport said no problem to brisbane. Took nearly 4 hours to unload existing vehicles and rload everything
Because his prime mover had no hydraulics to operate the decks the owner of renner springs roadhouse came to the rescue with his baby fork lift which raised and lowered them with 1 gramme in reserve.

Bev got a lift to 3 ways and i came down with Zak on the truck.

Upshot is Zaks brisbane job is delayed so no rush. In the morning bev and i will go in the truck to mt isa then fly home in the afternoon. We are in a motel room but poor Zak went to hop into his bunk and found a bloody cattle truck right beside him with the buggers tap dancing on the steel floors all night

Well for an 80 year old unrestored car she knocked over 5000 kilometres easily and s..t happens.

Well thats how it rolls I guess

A bit of adventure and if nothing went wrong the adventure would be pretty dull

Nothing for Zak to worry about, the cattle will settle in a few hours

And as they say, if the cattle keep you awake you haven't worked hard enough that day :silly: :silly: :silly:

Paul

Sounds like top gear has been background once too many times........Zeniths used to do this ,or overdo it ,I should say ,and most failed eventually........Still ,not a big repair .

Lang we feel for you and Bev. She must be an amazing lady to put up with it all. You are a very resourceful fellow and certainly seem to be able to find an answer to any problem you strike, unlike many of us who have to pay much more than we can afford to get us out of the trouble we get ourselves into.
I read some years ago about somebody who had to pay about $3000 just to get a tow truck to recover his four-wheel-drive from some outback road, to take it to a repairer . Of course he had to pay for repairs on top of that!

My wife and I ran in the 1994 Australian Safari (Sydney to Darwin via Birdsville) and one of the competitors Nissan Patrol died between Birdsville and Jervios mine on the Plenty Hwy.

It cost $5,000.00 to get it to Mt Isa and then it had to go to Melbourne.

Those were 1994 costs!

You did well Lang.

Zuffen Did he ever consider just abandoning it there? It may have worked out cheaper.

Goodbye to Black Betty as we were dropped off at Mt Isa airport. I will pick her up in Brisbane on Tuesday.

Anybody with a 40s Chev gearbox please let me know!

Lang

Lang,

What is on the deck above your car?

Terry