Robbo, Big Rob, Vombil, Stickthis, Thanks for the welcomes you mob, pleased to be here & see some great motor-cars getting around still. There's a few people restoring & driving the early stuff up here in kununurra & 1 Sandy that I'm yet to go & see.
damienengland & Jennie285, I was roaring around in the Van here in the mid 90's, lived & worked up the Kalumburu road when it & the Gibb were proper car killers, not the highways (corrugated still) they are now. You'd pull up to help a broken down fully-sik ARB kitted out 4x4 & the first comment usually was "This is a 4wd track, you can't have that here!" The van had 308 & turbo 350 then, I ran with low tire pressures, apart from a few side wall fails the only other thing i did was pull the exhuasts off, I got sick of catching the mufflers on rocks, & ran extractors with short pipes out behind the doors(Kimberley sidepipes) so I didn't gas myself.(no air-con) You could certainly hear it moving & when we were doing early burning on the station it saved matches as I could drive along in the long-grass, give it a foot full, back-off & the flames were impressive. The mix of super,Ulp & avgas(mustering chopper leftovers) probably helped.
I crossed the Pentecost river many times with water over the bonnet, I only ever tarped it once when there had been a storm upstream & it was running pretty fast & dirty, also the King Edward river on the way into the Mitchell falls can be exciting, I've had the van all the way up there too, Things you do to impress a dutch backpacker, I even shaved a zz top beard off,.(aahh, Lust!)
Well that's probably boring & way too much reminiscing, Damien I hope the Lattes were worth the move south & Jennie I hope I didn't miss out on seeing one of your sweet sandys come through (i also sent you a pm,I think, before I'd made any posts, not sure if or how that works)
Cheers & keep up the good work everyone
Mitchell falls heliport.jpgkalumburu ,plateau junction.jpgImpressing the Dutch.jpg4 Paddy.jpg
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