Day two we set off to tharhomindah. Which was a super rough drive for 37yo sports car with old, stock tyres and very tyred suspension... Like no dampers left and heaps of sagginess.. And a leaky brake booster that left us with no brakes for the first one or two pumps when driving on dirt...
Overnight it pissed down, so bad that instead of driving to tilpa, we had to change the route to Cobar instead, because of closed roads
So a fairly plain bitumen drive...
Very boring drive to Cootamundra too..
And then what set off as a boring drive to Dargo, until the point where we encountered snow and fog and 100-odd km of a goat track... Which wouldn't be "as bad" if at least we had a car with ground clearance and suspension.. Instead of pretty much sitting on bumpstops...
The next day, the drive out of dargo, heading off to port Melbourne was a very similar drive... A very rough start of the day, easy middle of the day, and a stressy end of the day, driving a group of shitboxes through big city traffic... To catch a ferry to Tasmania...
And the last day of the rally, we were tired and sore and enjoyed a neat drive through Tasmanian countryside..
On the way back home after the rally, I accidentally put e10 fuel in the car. It still ran, but rough and leaky injectors leaked more.....
But we got back home, picked up our other car from the workshop where it was after it had snapped an upper control arm... Only to have the handbrake light on permanently and the check engine light to come on and off intermittently...
And the next morning I had hernia surgery
And I hardly took any photos this year :/Statistics: Posted by tut — Tue May 24, 2016 5:02 am
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